This Guy’s Having Sex With Someone Different Every Day For A Year Because Art

Who's that handsome sweatpants sporting devil, you ask? Why it's Mischa Badasyan, a Russian born performance artist and activist whose new project "Save the Date" will involve him having sex with someone different every single day for a year. 

According to Mic (link below), Badasyan has some pretty wide-ranging influences for this project like "the gay condition, Taiwanese artists and French philosophy."

Badasyan's project asks powerful questions about today's hook-up culture, particularly within the gay experience, and how that in turn translates to loneliness. Casual, consistent sex is not only an old gay stereotype, but is also easily enabled by apps like Grindr, Scruff or Mister. Badasyan's performance may seem ludicrous at first, but he's only pushing an everyday reality to its extremes.

By meeting up with men in places such as parks, Badasyan will explore what happens to sexual interaction when it occurs in a non-place. It's an experience he knows about from the time he spent performing in Glasgow, while simultaneously looking for men: "I would go to [the park] every night and have sex with guys ... until 5 o'clock [or] 6 o'clock in the morning. And I was always … I felt very bad, I was crying all the time. I am always sad after these kind of meetings."

"Save the Date" operates in the grand tradition of year-long performance art pieces, a step away from Badasyan's usual muse, Serbian performance artist Marina Abramovic. "Abramovic does three-month performances, but they're not long enough," he said. "A year is really challenging; one year of your life, that's tough." Badasyan is drawing inspiration from artists like Sophie Calle and Tehching Hsieh, who once punched his clock every day for a year. Their abstractness and dedication to a single work has Badasyan fired up.

"It's easier for a gay man to do this kind of project," he said. "It's why I feel lonely. Straight people don't have these kind of applications, so many gay chats, in terms of cruising, sex clubs, sex bars, they don't have as many opportunities as gay people."

Interesting stuff. You can find out more over at Mic.