--- title: Norwegian Artist Eats Own Hip, Says It Tasted Like "Wild Sheep" description: The apparently starving artist ate his hip with potatoes and a glass of wine while his girlfriend was out of the house canonical: https://time.com/114180/norwegian-artist-hip/ author: Nolan Feeney article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2014-05-25T16:44:19.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T07:10:00.753Z og:title: Norwegian Artist Eats Own Hip, Says It Tasted Like "Wild Sheep" og:description: The apparently starving artist ate his hip with potatoes and a glass of wine while his girlfriend was out of the house og:url: https://time.com/114180/norwegian-artist-hip/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: TIME og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Norwegian Artist Eats Own Hip, Says It Tasted Like "Wild Sheep" twitter:description: The apparently starving artist ate his hip with potatoes and a glass of wine while his girlfriend was out of the house twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # Norwegian Artist Eats His Own Hip and Says It Was Delicious > Sponsored content. 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There is no cost and no subscription requirement.  by [Nolan Feeney](https://time.com/author/nolan-feeney/)  ## Nolan Feeney May 25, 2014 4:44 PM UTC  by [Nolan Feeney](https://time.com/author/nolan-feeney/)  ## Nolan Feeney May 25, 2014 4:44 PM UTC Adding a whole new meaning to the word “hipster,” a Norwegian conceptual artist has eaten his own hip on “a whim” and said it tasted like “wild sheep.” 25-year-old Alexander Selvik Wengshoel was born with a deformed hip that was replaced just a few years ago after he spent much of his life on crutches or in a wheelchair, [Norway’s _The Local_ reports](http://www.thelocal.no/20140523/norway-artist-ate-own-hip-with-mashed-potatoes). The bone, and the video footage of his hip replacement operation, are now on display in his graduate show exhibition at Tromsø Academy of Contemporary Art, where he revealed the story behind his project. “I had to boil off the meat to get to the bone, and when I started scraping off the meat, I took a little piece and thought, ‘Why not do it?'” he told The Local. “It’s not every day I will have a piece of human flesh which is mine and which it is possible to eat. So I had a little taste, and then I thought, ‘That’s really nice.'” Wengshoel washed down his meal of hip bone and potato gratin with a glass of wine while his girlfriend was at work. Although there was little meat on the bone, it was enough to make an appetizer, he said. “It had this flavour of wild sheep, if you take a sheep that goes in the mountains and eats mushrooms. It was goaty.” \[[_The Local_](http://www.thelocal.no/20140523/norway-artist-ate-own-hip-with-mashed-potatoes)\] ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/114180/norwegian-artist-hip/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/114180/norwegian-artist-hip/"},"headline":"Norwegian Artist Eats His Own Hip and Says It Was Delicious","datePublished":"2014-05-25T16:44:19.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T07:10:00.753Z","description":"Alexander Selvik Wengshoel ate his own hip with potatoes and a glass of wine while his girlfriend was out of the house, and said it tasted \"goaty\"","url":"https://time.com/114180/norwegian-artist-hip/","keywords":["Newsfeed","WTF","norway"],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Nolan Feeney","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/nolan-feeney/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/tag/time-section-newsfeed/","name":"Newsfeed"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/114180/norwegian-artist-hip/","name":"Norwegian Artist Eats His Own Hip and Says It Was Delicious"}}]}] ```