Artsy Prepuce
In case you don't know, a prepuce is an old word for foreskin. The most famous prepuce in the world is the Holy Prepuce, and maybe, as of last night, the most famous prepuce (at least in Washington, DC) hanging in an art gallery now hangs at the "Supple" exhibition in the Warehouse Galleries, as last night Adrian Parsons self circumcised himself in front of a rapt audience. He then hung the foreskin on the gallery wall.
Adrian with his foreskin hanging on the wall
At the start... yesterday I attended the gala opening for artDC, and the place was packed with dealers, collectors, press and artsy folks.
I left pretty late and pretty tired (I had risen at 4AM in the morning as I had an early morning appointment in Annapolis).
And so I unfortunately decided to head to bed, rather than head on over to Warehouse across the street.
It was there, at the opening of "Supple," that Parsons may have become the world's first arts mohel.
But tonight, after spending the whole day at artDC, around 10PM I did go to see "Supple" and also "No Representation" at Warehouse, and while there we ran into Parsons, who gave me a walking tour of "Supple" and he described the whole self-circumcision performance for me.
Below is a video of the self-circumcision - all normal warnings apply:
Video of Adrian Parsons' Shrapnel Performance
Update: YouTube has removed the video, but the CP has it here
If you can handle it, check out the photographs of the performance and the self-circumcision here.
Reviews of Supple, No Representation, and artDC coming soon. The men go: Ouch!
