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Be Clean!

Date:
Oct 16 1964

On October 16, 1964, the artist collective Hi Red Center, clad in sanitation masks and white uniforms and wielding small brooms and toothbrushes, spent several hours meticulously cleaning the streets of the Tokyo district of Ginza, amid the hustle and…

Kacey Wong & his provocative pink tank at Hong Kong’s 1 July marches

Practitioner:
Kacey Wong

Date:
Oct 16 1964

The Hong Kong 1 July protests are a surprising sight on the often chaotic stress. This day marks the transfer of Hong Kong from the United Kingdom to China (PRC) and is a public holiday it was originally thought to…

Ai, Rebel: The Art and Activism of Ai Weiwei

Practitioner:
Ai Weiwei

Date:
Oct 16 1964

“Everything is art. Everything is politics.” Globally renowned artist Ai Weiwei (Chinese, b. 1957) is celebrated as a disruptor of artistic canons and a champion of free expression. In his work—ranging across performance, photography, sculpture, video, and installation—he deploys humor…

Jolin Cai and Womxnly

Practitioner:
Jolin Cai

Date:
Oct 16 1964

The famous pop singer Jolin Tsai (蔡依林 Cài Yīlín) wrote and released a song named “Rose Boy” (official English title “Womxnly”) in 2018, inspired by the story of Yeh Yung-chih (叶永志 Yè Yǒngzhì), also known as “Rose Boy” (méiguī shǎonián…

Nara Yoshitomo “No Nukes (Untitled)”

Practitioner:
Nara Yoshitomo

Date:
Oct 16 1964

An early representation of Nara’s strong stance against nuclear weapons, No Nukes is now synonymous with the antinuclear protest movement. The work is painted over a promotional poster for bossa nova musician Vinicius Cantuária’s Amor Brasileiro (1998) among other printed…

At Frieze, Do Ho Suh and Brother Eul Ho Suh Explore Intergenerational Legacies in Korean Art

Practitioner:
Suh Se Ok

Date:
Oct 16 1964

South Korean artist Do Ho Suh is internationally known for his ghostly, diaphanous architecture and fabric-made objects, which create imaginary spaces that are physically present yet impossible to inhabit. His large-scale, immersive, but impermanent installations serve as “acts of memorialization,”…

Rokudenashiko and Her Man-Boat

Practitioner:
Rokudenashiko (Megumi Igarashi)

Date:
Oct 16 1964

Megumi Igarashi—who goes by the name Rokudenashiko, or “good-for-nothing” in Japanese—is known as a “vagina artist” in her native Japan. Among the pieces she’s created are a vagina chandelier, a remote-controlled vagina car, and a 3-D-printed kayak modeled after her…

The Hong Kong Artist Who Got Fired From McDonald’s

Practitioner:
Luke Ching

Date:
Oct 16 1964

On a recent eight-hour shift at a McDonald’s in Hong Kong, Luke Ching, 52, wiped tables, cleared trays of half-eaten fries, emptied cups of soda and milk tea and lugged bulging trash bags to the dumpster. For him, the main…

White Paper Revolution in Nanjing University of Communication

Practitioner:
Students from Nanjing University of Communication

Date:
Oct 16 1964

Direct Cause: The event that on November 24, several people died in a fire in a residential building in Urumqi, Xinjiang province, due to delayed disaster relief due to the COVID-19 lockdown policy in China, and the indifference of the…

Performance Art “Not to Leave the Cage Unless You Have to” in Beijing Film Academy

Practitioner:
An anonymous student from Beijing Film Academy

Date:
Oct 16 1964

Direct Cause: Students’ freedom to enter and leave the campus has been restricted for two weeks, but the university has not even issued an official document, only a verbal rule of “not leaving the campus unless necessary.” Objective: To protest…