We aren’t really sure this guy will succeed or really if he has thought through what he is doing, but it sounds like an interesting social experiment: have sex with a different person every day for a year. Would you do it?

All in the name of performance art, of course, Mischa Badasyan plans to find a different person each day for a year to have sex with. Here’s how he explains why it is art.

His project, which he plans to begin in September, has been met with both criticism and praise, with some people saying “it’s not what you think!” and others saying “good luck.”

Badasyan asks loaded questions about today’s obsession with the hook-up culture, especially within the gay experience.[…]

With this project, Badasyan hopes to explore the connection between loneliness, hook-ups, and the idea of “non-places,” a phrase coined by French philosopher Marc Auge that Badasyan explains refers to:

“Supermarkets, shopping malls, airports, motorways … [where] people lose their identity, there’s no communication, people don’t feel a belonging to somewhere and that causes the loneliness of people.”

Badasyan wants to explore what happens when he has sex in these “non-places.” He plans on measuring his levels of loneliness, despite meeting and being intimate with a new person every day.

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“The whole idea, why it’s art, why it’s a performance, is the process — the process of finding someone.”