Mischa Badasyan is a gay Russian performance artist who is about to have sex with a different man every day for an entire year … for art! Meanwhile, you're scrolling through Tinder, trying to find someone that isn't named Dawg.
Mischa Badasyan is a gay Russian performance artist who is about to have sex with a different man every day for an entire year … for art! Meanwhile, you're scrolling through Tinder, trying to find someone that isn't named Dawg.
Beginning in September, Mischa will have sex with a brand spankin' new person every day for his controversial piece, "Save the Date." Inspired by the feelings of lonliness and unfulfillment that hookup apps like Grindr and Tinder facilitate, it will explore the feeling of after-sex emptiness we in the hookup generation are all-too familiar with.
Because regardless if you're gay, straight, or something inbetween, who among us hasn't woken up next to someone who only slept with you to make themselves seem more like a creature of reckless millenial abandon in their Vice article about watering their plants with period blood? That's exactly what Mischa's talking about.
In addition to confronting feelings of empiness, his year long sex vacation will also explore French philosopher Marc Auge's idea of "non-place."
"Non-places are supermarkets, shopping malls, airports and other largely anonymous spots where people lose a sense of identity and feel like they don’t belong," Mischa explained to Arts.Mic. "In these places, you don’t have to talk to anyone or feel a sense of belonging. That creates loneliness."
Mischa, would like to be a "non-place" himself (see also: the most relaxed man in the world). In doing so, he will explore the contemporary phenomenon of being with so many people, physically or sexually, and yet still feeling alone.
In order to transform himself into a non-place, he'll use dating apps and websites to meet up with strangers in actual non-places in order to understand what occurs at the intersection of anonymous sex and anonymous spaces. Does that mean he's gonna do it in the dairy aisle?
Mischa is already casting a wide net on several internet sex sites to facilitate serial performance. He's also been tested for STDs and found himself a condom sponsor, which are two qualities we're hoping he uses on his Tinder profile. Now the only thing to do is sit back, relax, and try to figure out how to remember the names of all these people so it's not awkward when he runs into them at a mutual friend's Christmas party.
He also hopes to acquire a small token from each sexual partner, acquiring 365 objects throughout the performance and thus making "all of the non-places into a place." File that under: "Not Creepy.
Also in not-creepy news, he said this: "Generally, I’m not going to tell my dates about this project. What if I tell you I just had sex with you for an art project? People won’t like that." No, but we're pretty sure they don't like finding out secondhand that they were number #365 either. No shower can wash that off.
It's an interesting concept to explore; how something so intimate as sex can be made so thoroughly non-intimate by today's mysterious ways and hookup apps … and it's also a really great excuse to have sex with as many people as you can before your body turns to dust in old age, a practice we fully support.
So go, Mischa, go and shave your balls, because tonight, we ride. Or, you do. Or do they? Get back to us.
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