Video from 2017.
"When is a tattoo parlor the perfect venue for a contemporary art show? When the art on view is Nicole Wilson’s nearly decade-long project 'Ötzi,' in which she recreated each of 61 tattoos found on the over 5,000-year-old Ice Age mummy of the same name on her own body, using her own blood in lieu of ink—and documented the healing process, photographing as the marks slowly faded away." Source: ArtNet.
I'm not sure how permanent these tattoos are. According to Wilson, "In 2012 and using existing research, I tattooed — to scale and in the same location on my body — images of Ötzi’s 59 tattoos in my own blood. My body reabsorbed almost all of the blood back into itself immediately following the process of tattooing, but left behind dark scars where heme, the pigment within blood, slowly disappeared from the skin’s surface.
"In December 2016, I re-executed this project in light of a newly published study that used non-invasive multi spectral photographic imaging techniques and found that there are more tattoos on Ötzi than originally believed. Researchers have confirmed that the corpse contains 61 total tattoos divided into 19 groups. I worked with these researchers and Three Kings Tattoo in order to redo this project and ensure that all 61 of Ötzi’s tattoos were tattooed into my skin."
Comment: I can't decide if this is an interesting attempt to connect with the past or just another example of hipsterish performance-art nonsense. In any case, Wilson does seem to be genuinely interested in mummies and tattoos. In the next video (2021), for instance, she moderates a Q & A about the subject with Dr. Albert Zink, head of the Institute for Mummy Studies in Italy.
Discussion starts at around 2:00.