2009, August,10th Open Performance Art Festival, Beijing, Curator

As a curator and participant of The 10th Open Performance Art Festival I did the following performance at Tiananmen Square, Beijing, China (photo Wenrui)

In 1989 Chinese government violently suppressed pro democracy demonstration on Tiananmen Square killing almost 2000 people (some estimates are claiming up to 6000 people). Until today the government has been avoiding any public discussion about this "dirty spot" in recent Chinese history. Feeling the necessity of finally "cleaning blood" from the Tiananmen Square I brought a bucket with water and a mob (I had to pass through the metal detector but was allowed to walk on the square) and started to wash it. After about 7 minutes the Chinese police stopped my "consciousness cleaning effort".

10th Open Festival Catalogue




Since I did not succeeded to wash all blood I went on The Great Chines Wall and was trying to block the public conformism.

July 2009, Art Residency Palestine /Israel

Art Residency, West Bank-the occupied Palestinian Territories,  THROWING PEAS AT THE WALL

After Al Jazeera published the article about my Prague retrospective show I was offered by Palestinian organization "Join Advocacy Initiative" to join a 10 days long residential art program in Beit Sahour in West Bank of the occupied Palestinian territories. Here are some samples of the performance pieces I did there next to a "New Berlin Wall" (when finished it should be 750 Km long and 10 meters tall) built by Israeli government to segregate occupied Palestinian territories from Israel. Al Jazeera link: http://www.aljazeera.net/NR/exeres/5F21F0AF-DC52-4B5C-8998-5AEE218958EC.htm

SECOND PERFORMANCE NEXT A WALL IN ISRAEL:



I walked over that humiliating apartheid wall with the intention to flip it over.



PERFORMANCE NEXT TO A WALL IN ISRAEL:

I personally participated on the whole process to get through one of the "check points" in the wall. It is experienced every morning by the Palestinians working inside Israel. They wake up every night at two in the morning so that they can get around three at the check point. Than it takes them approximately three hours to get through the three stages of "security check ups" (metal detectors, body searches etc). During this process they are exposed to different types of humiliating harassments. There are no bathrooms or chairs. When they get on the other side of the wall they are sometimes napping on the sidewalks waiting for the transportation to their day- jobs.

May, 2009, My Retrospective Show at Prague, Czech Republic

RETROSPECTIVE SHOW AT GALLERY NoD-ROXY,PRAGUE, CZECH REPUBLIC

FILM:
INTERVIEW AT THE SHOW

Gallery NoD (ROXY) in Prague, Czech Republic offered a retrospective show of my artwork. It covered my works from early eighties till now. In three halls there were on the displays my performance situations accompanied by three video projections with the excerpts of my films and performances.
INTERVIEW AT THE SHOW
NoD ROXY