Controversial artist who 'vomited' on Lady Gaga on stage now encloses herself in a room for 168 HOURS surviving only on water for latest art project

Millie Brown drinks coloured milk and regurgitates liquid over canvas

The 27-year-old appeared in Lady Gaga's music video

Starves herself for two days before creating piece

Latest artwork sees her enclosed in a gallery space in bed of flowers

Says she'll go into a meditative state for the performance



From Damien Hirst sacrificing 9,000 butterflies to Tracey Emin scrawling the names of every one of her lovers onto a tent, s ome artists make a living out of pushing boundaries.

But one young creative has pushed them to a whole new level. Cutting-edge artist Millie Brown, who shot to fame as the girl who drank coloured milk and regurgitated it over Lady Gaga on stage, has embarked on her most challenging work to date.



Wilting Point, as her work is called, sees the British performance artist enclosed in Hatbox, a gallery space at Refinery Hotel in New York, removed from the outside world for 168 continuous hours.

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A work of art: Millie Brown's latest performance sees her enclosed in a gallery space removed from the outside world for 168 continuous hours surviving on only water

Surrounded by a carpet of freshly-cut flowers, Brown is currently lying in complete isolatio n i mmersing herself in a meditative state and surviving solely on water for the entire seven days.

Speaking about the challenge, which began on Friday and forms part of NYC's Frieze Art week, the 27-year-old said: 'I wanted to create a performance that embodied the transience of life.

'I wanted to eliminate all the distractions from my daily reality in order to focus on the impermanence and fragile beauty of our existence.'

Withstanding the physical discomfort and inevitably entering into an altered mental state, Brown will apparently use this fast to 'enable herself to explore the depths the mind can reach, once physical comforts and limitations have been removed'.



Finding fame: Millie shot to fame when she drank coloured milk and regurgitated it over Lady Gaga in her music video, Exorcist Interlude

Her toughest challenge yet: Surrounded by a carpet of freshly-cut flowers, Brown wants to immerse herself in a meditative state

The public are being encouraged to follow the evolution of Brown's performance both in person, where she can be glimpsed from the sidewalk through the window of Refinery Hotel's Hatbox, and via VMAGAZINE.COM, where the performance is being live-streamed 24 hours a day.

Speaking to the magazine about the inspiration behind her performance, she said: 'I always strive to push through my own physical and mental barriers. I think it’s important to experience everything you can, on every end of the spectrum.



'I believe it’s important to make yourself uncomfortable and learn to separate mind and body in order to reach a raw, primal state of being.'

A spokesman B-eat (Beating Eating Disorders) said: 'The artist here is making a choice. Purging is often an extremely secretive behaviour, something that an individual will do anything to hide from others and there certainly are negative health impacts related to purging in this way.'



All alone: The public can follow the evolution of Brown's performance online, where it is being live streamed

So sick: Gaga performed on the Doritos Bold Stage at Stubb's BBQ and had performance artist Millie Brown throw up paint on to her

