Beijing correspondent - The "Jasmine gatherings" held in late February 2011 have fizzled in China. The repression was so brutal that no one dares go out. A hundred lawyers, activists, and even ordinary surfers were arrested. But the spirit of the movement is not dead: Sunday, March 20, a special exhibition held in Songzhuang, a famous artists' village on the outskirts of Beijing.
We find traces on a site hosted in the United States, New Century Net. The exhibition was called "Mingan Didayi" ("hotspot") and brought together 70 artists to space Moca Beijing. One of them, Huang Xiang, had staged a very daring performance, entitled "They see enemies everywhere." Harnessed in a shroud of jasmine flowers stained red, the artist has done to bring the sound of funeral music by a group of masked characters up a kind of well.
The masked men then formed a circle around him and communion, a jasmine flower in her hands. Another artist created a performance in a room full of flags of the Chinese Communist Party: "A smell that hangs over 9.6 million km2 [area of China]." He pretends to want to hide, but surrounded on all sides by the flags, took one between his teeth, then is wrapped around the neck as if to hang himself.
Finally, a third artist marched with a huge inflatable hammer and sickle on the back, a performance entitled "The weight lifted." No site or blog hosted Chinese in China no longer bears any trace of this agitprop art. According to the Hong Kong newspaper Apple Daily, the police arrived two days later, on March 22, and closed the show.
They asked to speak to each artist. Finally, they allowed the exhibition to reopen. Without works ... sensitive. Brice Pedroletti 
We find traces on a site hosted in the United States, New Century Net. The exhibition was called "Mingan Didayi" ("hotspot") and brought together 70 artists to space Moca Beijing. One of them, Huang Xiang, had staged a very daring performance, entitled "They see enemies everywhere." Harnessed in a shroud of jasmine flowers stained red, the artist has done to bring the sound of funeral music by a group of masked characters up a kind of well.
The masked men then formed a circle around him and communion, a jasmine flower in her hands. Another artist created a performance in a room full of flags of the Chinese Communist Party: "A smell that hangs over 9.6 million km2 [area of China]." He pretends to want to hide, but surrounded on all sides by the flags, took one between his teeth, then is wrapped around the neck as if to hang himself.
Finally, a third artist marched with a huge inflatable hammer and sickle on the back, a performance entitled "The weight lifted." No site or blog hosted Chinese in China no longer bears any trace of this agitprop art. According to the Hong Kong newspaper Apple Daily, the police arrived two days later, on March 22, and closed the show.
They asked to speak to each artist. Finally, they allowed the exhibition to reopen. Without works ... sensitive. Brice Pedroletti
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