“She admits she has a fear of germs. But for her new art installation, Miru Kim has decided to live with pigs for 104 hours, non-stop. The former medical student is staying in a pen at the front of one of the galleries at Art Basel Miami 2011, and visitors can watch her, naked, through the window. She will eat and sleep alongside the animals for the next four days. And getting down in the dirt wasn’t easy for the 30-year-old, who suffered badly with obsessive-compulsive disorder as a child. ‘It’s a very concentrated industrial environment, so the level of smell is toxic,’ she told the Huffington Post. ‘I get into a mental zone when I am doing a shoot. After I’m done, however, if I can’t get the smell off my feet, it’s very disturbing.” w/ photos
