Alexander Selvik Wengshoel doing a performance art piece.Photo: Courtesy the artist, via Facebook.
The Independent Reports: Norwegian artist Alexander Selvik Wengshoel claims to have eaten his own hip “on a whim” and presented the bone in his graduate exhibition.
Wengshoel took the body part home after a hip replacement operation, boiled it to loosen the meat and ate it with potato gratin and a glass of wine.
“When I got home I sat in my living room and suddenly I had a whim that I should cook the meat,” he told The Local. “I resolved to have this really nice moment, with me and my hip bone.
“It’s not every day I will have a piece of human flesh which is mine and which it is possible to eat. So I had a little taste and then I thought, ‘That’s really nice’.
“It had this flavour of wild sheep, if you take a sheep that goes in the mountains and eats mushrooms.”
Documentation of the entire self-ingesting feast is now featured in an exhibition at the Tromso Academy of Contemporary Art—where he is earning his BA. www.kunstakademietitromso.no
