Belly Button Rings Are So Last Season.

Remember when tattooing was illegal in Massachusetts? Ahahahaha. But seriously, every once and a while this town starts to feel wicked puritan. Luckily, we have Ray Aims, the Boston-based body-piercing performance artist. Tonight at Art Interactive, someone’s gonna get poked and laced live. Titled “Flesh and Foundation”, the performance will explore “the fine line between beauty and pain, structural integrity and decadence, the temporal and the seemingly infinite.” Part of Art Interactive’s Summer X Games events, the show will also include a set by DJ D’hana, video and exhibit art. Bostonist has walked by dozens of in-mall ear-piercings without batting an eyelash, but we have to admit that Aims' work looks quite moving.