“On May 25, 2012, an 11-minute video titled 1 Lunatic 1 Ice Pick was uploaded to Best-
gore.com, depicting a naked male tied to a bed frame being repeatedly stabbed with an ice
pick and a kitchen knife, then dismembered, followed by acts of necrophilia.The perpetrator
uses a knife and fork to cut off some of the flesh and gets a dog to chew on the body. (..
Winston Ross, The Daily Beast (June 4, 2012)
1 Lunatic 1 Ice Pick takes the plunge into a wired world inspired by the cannibalistic story
of pornographic actor Luka Rocco Magnotta, arrested after killing and dismembering his
boyfriend while creating a snuff movie to be uploaded to the dark web.
The on-site installation by Clémence de La Tour du Pin and Antoine Renard traces a cracked
nuptial narrative, underlining the morbid attraction to gore in opposition to our extreme dis-
gust at such a scene. The kinky environment re-created by the two artists reflects the cryptic
virtual realm of online gaming, its dark spaces of excess entertainment and constant trans-
formation. A collapsed consciousness drawn into its limbs.