The film shows a bit of Kjetil “Frost” Haraldstad performing this act where he spits fire onto his paintings, slashes a couch and cuts himself. I am fascinated. Where can I see the rest of this performance?
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dL9Q818J1Yo
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That's a straight cut out of the documentary.
Yeah I don't get it, thats too much blood for it to be real. I need to know.
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Yeah, because he has SO MANY scars from doing that, right?
That was an "art" performance. Fake blood.
Do you think he really died at the end of it?!??
I could see it being real. Then again, I could see it not being real. It's perfectly possible that he did, though. You don't have to cut that deep to draw a lot of blood.
Scars fade, some quicker than others. A friend got slashed across his eye by a drunk last year but now, you have to look really close to see it at all; people who didn't know him then don't notice it.
Also, there have been performance artists who have disfigured themselves and drawn blood in various ways, and Marina Abramović who allowed the audience to do whatever they wanted to her, including cut her skin. So him not dying doesn't discount the possibility that he actually cut himself.
If it was fake, he did a great job on making it look real, so great performance either way. I could see the neck slash being fake just for safety reasons. It's perfectly reasonable to "safely" slice your own wrist because you can see it. Neck's a little trickier being below the field of vision and all.
It sure looked like a prop knife to me when I watched it, especially looking at how hard he was jamming the knife into his arm. If that was a real, sharp knife, he would have sunk it to the bone and blood would have been spurting out and he'd be on his way to the ER. My wife and I sat there and laughed at his whole performance. It was silly.
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