Peet Pienaar

Peet Pienaar (born 29 August 1971 near Potchefstroom, South Africa) is a South African performance artist, most famous for having himself videotaped while undergoing circumcision in 2000. The discarded foreskin, displayed in a small perspex case, was part of an installation with a three-monitor video showing the circumcision operation in excruciating close-up. Quotes I'm using art as an excuse to live a very interesting life - it allows you to be whoever you want to be, do whatever you want to do, go where ever you want to go. It's like a free ticket. Take the gym thing - just to exercise all the time would have been so boring, but when it was done as an art project, it was quite different. https://www.artthrob.co.za/00dec/artbio.html My design isn’t always produced as a keepsake—but people don’t throw it away. Sport, not art, is our national culture. I moved from painting into performance because I felt that putting something in a gallery didn’t have any effect. Making performance art was the same. It became self-indulgent. With design, I felt I could reach a wider audience and have real impact, whether good or bad. https://www.printmag.com/id-mag/sportsmans_notes/ External links Category: Living people Category:Artists from South Africa Category:Performance artists Category:1971 births