Petr Pavlensky, ‘Segregation’. Performance in Moscow, October 19 2014. Courtesy of the artist

Chopped earlobes and the long history of political shock art in Russia

On October 19, Russian artist Petr Pavlensky sat on a wall outside a mental institution in Moscow and cut off his earlobe. He did so in protest of the continued use of psychiatric treatment on dissidents…

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