Artist lives inside rock for one week surrounded by his own excrement
- 7 years ago
PARIS — Performance artist Abraham Poincheval is in the midst of spending seven days inside a massive, 12-ton rock at the Palais de Tokyo gallery.
Poincheval is well known for his feats of endurance such as traversing the Rhone River inside a large corked plastic bottle, spending six days on a platform 20 meters in the air just outside a Paris train station, and living in a cramped space inside a stuffed bear in a museum.
On Feb. 22, Poincheval stepped inside the human-shaped hole carved into the rock, where he would sit and wait for a week. The aim of his stunt is to discover how the unique experience will transform his perception of time and space.
In there, he’s got food supplies of water, soup, and dried meat, and enough room to keep a diary of his experience. Poincheval will be using water bottles to collect his pee, and there’s a container for him to defecate into.
If he survives his week in the rock, Poincheval says his next feat of endurance will be to sit on a dozen eggs for four weeks, waiting for them to hatch.
Poincheval is well known for his feats of endurance such as traversing the Rhone River inside a large corked plastic bottle, spending six days on a platform 20 meters in the air just outside a Paris train station, and living in a cramped space inside a stuffed bear in a museum.
On Feb. 22, Poincheval stepped inside the human-shaped hole carved into the rock, where he would sit and wait for a week. The aim of his stunt is to discover how the unique experience will transform his perception of time and space.
In there, he’s got food supplies of water, soup, and dried meat, and enough room to keep a diary of his experience. Poincheval will be using water bottles to collect his pee, and there’s a container for him to defecate into.
If he survives his week in the rock, Poincheval says his next feat of endurance will be to sit on a dozen eggs for four weeks, waiting for them to hatch.