A performance artist has appealed for administrative reconsideration after being sentenced to a year of re-education through labor, as reported by the Beijing News on May 9.
Cheng Li, the artist in question, participated in a performance art show on March 20 revolving around the theme of "sensitive areas," which featured pictures and performances in the Museum of Contemporary Art in Tongzhou district in the capital.
His live act, titled "Art Whore," which includes sex scenes on a balcony and in a basement of the exhibition hall, has aroused dispute.
Guo Zhenming, a 31-year-old artist, recalls that three days after the peaceful performance, Cheng and other artists were taken away by local policemen, and that Cheng remained in custody the following day.
The Art Whore was a character in FoolishPeople's 2007 project Dead Language that FP presented at the ICA. The art whore from my script also "Fucked for Art".
It's sad to see ideas you've worked with touch down in reality under such circumstances, especially where it's thought possible to reeducate the human spirit through a work camp.
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