Doubt about your own position as an artist in society is the central theme in the work of Javier Núñez Gasco (Spain, 1971).
In his performance Immolation he walks into a nightclub stripped to the waist. The red belt with bottles of beer that he has hanging around his waist makes him look like a political martyr just before a suicide bombing. While the beat of the music pumps and you hear the people around him laughing and talking, Gasco seems to be in a daze. He drinks one bottle after another, and ends up on a lonely path where, in the end, he finds unconsciousness. In his work, through mental and physical exhaustion he attains the ‘personal paradise’ that every martyr seeks.