The Amazing story of the artist Gerel Dzjind:
Gerel Dzjind literally puts his life on the line for his art. Diagnosed two years ago with stomach cancer, he dug an outline into the ground of his body lying in its grave. He then built a second grave, strewn with rocks, directly beside it. He lay down naked inside his body’s outline and held onto the stones of the tandem grave, as if the two graves were skipping off into oblivion. When he underwent the actual operation to remove his cancerous stomach, he stuck a camera in his surgeon’s hands and told him to document the entire procedure as if it were a performance—which by virtue of his saying so, it became. Gerel fortunately survived and documented all the gory details of his convalescence in his hospital bed, à la Bob Flanagan, as a continuation of the performance. Upon his recovery he fathered a child.
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