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She was ‘investigating questions relating to temporality, the body in site, representation and gender through consideration of the use of the body in performance as an activist practice’. Jackson previously called for donations of menstrual blood for a project.</p>  <p class="credits">Raquel Rodrigues</p> </li> <li data-gallery-legend="2"> <h2> <span class="counter">2/5</span>  </h2>  <p>Photographer Erica Simone wondered what the world would feel like naked ‘without the empowering or disempowering effect of clothing’ so decided to find out in New York. </p>  <p class="credits">Erica Simone</p> </li> <li data-gallery-legend="3"> <h2> <span class="counter">3/5</span>  </h2>  <p>Performance artist Milo Moire protested against the New Year’s Eve sex attacks in Cologne by standing naked in the city holding a placard reading: ‘Respect us! We are not fair game even when naked!’</p>  <p class="credits">AP</p> </li> <li data-gallery-legend="4"> <h2> <span class="counter">4/5</span>  </h2>  <p>Deborah de Robertis was arrested yet again for a nude stunt in front of Manet’s ‘Olympia’ in the Musee d’Orsay in Paris. The performance artist lay down naked in front of the painting to mimic the pose of the famed nude portrait of a prostitute.</p>  <p class="credits">YouTube</p> </li> <li data-gallery-legend="5"> <h2> <span class="counter">5/5</span>  </h2>  <p>Photographer Mathilde Grafstrom takes pictures of women who don’t have traditional model looks to combat negative self-image. Her Copenhagen exhibition was closed down by police in December, prompting complaints.</p>  <p class="credits"> Mathilde Grafstrom</p> </li> </ul><div class="ad-mpu mpu5-container"> </div> </div> </div> </div></div></div> <p>The Green Party of Paris is also planning to propose setting up a dedicated nudist park in a Paris city council meeting this week,<a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20160927135059/https://www.thelocal.fr/20160923/could-paris-soon-have-its-own-nudist-spot" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"> according to <em>The Local</em>. </a></p> <div class="dnd-widget-wrapper context-sdl_editor_representation type-video"><div class="dnd-atom-rendered"><div class="image"> <div class="bc_container"> <video id="4740874742001" data-account="624246174001" data-player="2d3d4a83-ba40-464e-9bfb-2804b076bf67" data-embed="default" data-video-id="4740874742001" class="video-js" controls=""></video><script src="//web.archive.org/web/20160927135059js_/http://players.brightcove.net/624246174001/2d3d4a83-ba40-464e-9bfb-2804b076bf67_default/index.min.js"></script></div>  </div></div><div class="dnd-caption-wrapper">Woman strips naked in Paris museum and films it</div></div> <p>In addition to the dedicated nudist space, a naked restaurant that saw great success in London under the name The Bunyadi, is <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20160927135059/http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/naked-restaurant-paris-london-nude-bunyadi-opening-date-dining-no-clothes-a7171546.html">set to open its doors in Paris. </a></p> <div class="relatedlinkslist inline-block-related-list inline-block-right"> <h2 class="box-title">Read more</h2> <div class="relatedlinkslist-content" style="min-height: 10px;"> <ul class="related"><li><a data-author="Empty" data-nid="7305671" data-publish_date="26-08-2016" href="/web/20160927135059/http://www.independent.co.uk/indy100/article/nudist-swimmer-gets-penis-caught-on-fishing-hook--Z1ph4Ro1OW">Nudist swimmer gets penis 'caught' on fishing hook</a></li> <li><a data-author="Lizzie Dearden..." data-nid="7096001" data-publish_date="22-06-2016" href="/web/20160927135059/http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/german-nudists-outraged-at-new-rules-ordering-them-to-wear-swimwear-as-refugee-shelter-arrives-on-a7096001.html">German nudists outraged at new rules ordering them to wear swimwear as refugee shelter arrives on lake</a></li> <li><a data-author="Oliver Wright..." data-nid="6784811" data-publish_date="23-12-2015" href="/web/20160927135059/http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/former-tory-frontbencher-was-urged-to-keep-quiet-about-being-a-nudist-a6784811.html">Former Tory frontbencher 'was urged to keep quiet about being a secret nudist'</a></li> <li><a data-author="Kashmira Gander..." data-nid="180751" data-publish_date="05-02-2015" href="/web/20160927135059/http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/cub-scouts-group-accidentally-taken-on-hike-through-nudist-beach-10025574.html">Cub Scouts group accidentally taken on hike through nudist beach</a></li> </ul></div> </div> <p>While there is a growing acceptance of nudism with the plans to find a dedicated space for nudists, France needs to disassociate the practice with sexual exhibitionism, Jacques Frimont, vice president of the Association for the Promotion of Naturism in Liberty (APNEL) has said.</p> <p>“A sexual pervert is someone who spies on their neighbours or masturbates in public, for example. 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