Performance Olivier de Sagazan

Performance Olivier de Sagazan is an artsy video created by the man in the title that mostly revolves around his creative uses of clay. Soon after, the video would receive attention due to its association with a creepypasta called Gateway of the Mind.

Origin

The video originally appeared on Olivier de Sagazan's website in 2008, where it would be uploaded to YouTube on his own channel the same year. The video starts off with Olivier taking a seat in a front of a grey background in what appears to be a studio. Shortly after, he starts taking off all his clothes, at which point he starts bathing himself in clay. As soon as his full frontal body is covered, he takes out a small paintbrush and dabs black eyes for himself. He also makes a mouth with this paint as well. He even gets a yellow wig for hair. He continues to repeat the process multiple times, using water to splatter everything so he can start over, until the end where he finally shakes everything off his face before it abruptly cuts off.

Many more similar videos can be found on his YouTube channel and website.

Spread

Two years later, the creepypasta Gateway of the Mind was written, which focused on a group of scientists cutting off the senses of an individual in an attempt to contact God, only for multiple voices (dead spirits) to essentiality end up in his head. He ends up dying after weeks of this.

Accompanying the creepypasta is black and white footage of Olivier's performance, which is claimed to be footage of the man going crazy from all the voices in his head. This "footage" soon grew popular with the Creepypasta community.

In modern years, Olivier's act became subject to many videos like reactions, as well as recreations.