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This is Performance Art

This is Performance Art

 

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A devotee of the Chinese Jui Tui Shrine with metal rods piercing his cheeks takes part in a street procession as part of the annual Vegetarian Festival in the southern Thai town of Phuket on October 11, 2013. During the festival, which begins on the first evening of the ninth lunar month and lasts nine days, religious devotees slash themselves with swords, pierce their cheeks with sharp objects and commit other painful acts to purify themselves, taking on the sins of the community.   AFP PHOTO/Christophe ARCHAMBAULT
A devotee of the Chinese Jui Tui Shrine with metal rods piercing his cheeks takes part in a street procession as part of the annual Vegetarian Festival in the southern Thai town of Phuket on October 11, 2013. During the festival, which begins on the first evening of the ninth lunar month and lasts nine days, religious devotees slash themselves with swords, pierce their cheeks with sharp objects and commit other painful acts to purify themselves, taking on the sins of the community. AFP PHOTO/Christophe ARCHAMBAULT