This Chinese artist kept his mouth shut for 30 days, using metal clasps, gloves, duct tape and other items to protest against pandemic censorship
Brother Nut, Chinese performance artist wearing a face mask poses for a picture in Shanghai, following the coronavirus disease outbreak, China July 13, 2020. REUTERS/Aly Song
“If you ask me how an artist should digest unfair treatment, such as violence or censorship, my first reaction is: keep fighting, with art,” said Brother Nut. China faced a barrage of criticism over the virus that emerged late last year in Wuhan, from being slow to sound the alarm to the treatment of a doctor who tried to alert authorities about the outbreak but was reprimanded by police for “spreading rumours.
In 2018, he invited a heavy metal band to play in a village polluted with heavy metals, prompting local environmental authorities to investigate the contamination.
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