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shattering the glass ceiling. women in architecture starts april 20th on d, w. ah, ah, ah. linkage issue when the cultural revolution in china came to an end from the political tension began to subside under the artists and activists had already begun to emerge looking for a new concept of art. art that was real human gen,

should he regime feeling every one felt that change was in the air and every one wanted to contribute lead switching to india, what and we were all very young like we saw a small window opening in china, which at that point was so closed ah

say the cultural revolution began on august 18th, 1966. when mal met with the red guards on tenements square in beijing, 2 wall that marked the start of fundamental change. smell was suddenly no longer a mere mortal. i mean, of course he was, but that's when people made him a god. here beat him. and so tween ocean who realm of culture in art and propaganda came under the direct control of mao's wife, whose name was john ching she and the people who worked with her,

they narrow down what they felt was a 100 percent reliable revolutionary art. the poster arden and graphic art in the novels and short stories were similarly restricted for the further none of our artistic works towed the party line. well, our art was very free and of course we were completely self taught that they it says, yell on the one day when mary duck, dusk time i went to see him. oh, when the see my friend the benefit, he wasn't the home. i'm a, his father was a lie down in the current temporary bed and i realize the under the bookshelf, that book as i survived, didn't take him by writer garzo did in the burn. cover of the dust was

a complete art history. i know that the 1st time i saw the impressionist on the 1st time i realized that the heart can be like that. ah hm. ah . which was originally a toy that was broken and you tell the child threw it away to where all of your

kitchen. i brought the paper from china, located through his broken toe on the floor, and i picked it up and turned it into art authority thought. no. tender chung, she was a well. now used her and the gang of 4 to kill people. chunky chunks and didn't hold a weapon. she, herself, was a weapon jolting, bass mouse weapon was about to tell her ah,

you is the rest of the gang of 4, marked a turning point in china. ha, ha. mm mm. shortly after the end of the cultural revolution, when it now had died, dung shall ping emerged as the leader of the old guard sort of step by step. and dung shall ping was trying to put china back together again. and one of tongues main lieutenants said, among those who had been killed, the imprisoned, fired, and their relatives, the total number of people who had been hurt by the cultural revolution was a 100000000.

ah, but you know, it was in to me that she was. yeah, i saw this man in the middle of beijing. covet in mouth badges, although begin like he had come all the way to beijing. he's hoping to solve his problems. to petition leave michelle pe though. do he made a profound impression on me? so i took this photograph include that as petty and compassion in the image. you but also great hope that's how human beings are the heel. that's how we chinese have survived for thousands of years and daughter down

corner ah, to the challenger, she, this is where democracy activists put up their dicey brow and big character posters that they want on. mm hm. it's yeah, yeah, they wanted compensation for the suffering caused by the cultural revolution. i see it. hm. dorothy. the guys you oh oh, i on the way home from work they stopped there to read. oh,

it was not very noisy. people quietly read text took notes. they talked a little bit among them, but oh, no big discussions. many chinese had never seen anything like that before. were people with criticized government? so they stood there, open mouse. ah, it had not been long ago that people were notches put into prison. me an executed tor criticizing mo, at the communist arkwin, very tappin all in public gypsies, which actually she can see the stars art group is closely associated with democracy wall, as well as the activists to express their views on democracy and freedom their there was also jim tian today when a non official literary magazine law the windshield coul to share jean

you'll be on point ashlyn, should he choose honey? we really wanted to contribute to democracy. walter told the truth, so we spontaneously decided to publish a magazine featuring new poems and novels photography. and pain detail. he, she, she know, she ha, ha, ha, i, she, she'll one we wanted to find out what freedom of the press really means you're self occupied. so we came up with the idea of publishing a magazine button as leo i suggested calling it today, the hotel i found that we should try to represent the present to feel that the moment amelia, daniel kenya. so

we're going washer, you long roy and i were the founders of the artist group, the stars with an issue iga. we wanted to create a space where everything revolved around art. we called ourselves the stars because now was the son you had origin mother don't really the pile and the i suddenly long of here. oh the over the stars. oh, with her i felt okay. that's good either. sounds quite modest. it was thought the thought only shining very in the bag. i am. when the pain comes of it is a good. they started, i got the idea. i have a are the show and then include a me. and then i say i have a friend. i know some one daughter would carry. call the one copier m o to come when the doctor will my room at that time as annie 8 square meters. oh, i hung my aunt on the wall, kept it in the closet. and under my ban on the 20th,

ah, the long have you listen bill to be to still sure. just one k pings work was very political. is sculpture. silence is a head with the mouth plug new to you that the against the name. so it's a sculpture that conveys a sense of constraint on since hello, i hang you. it's you way to her trunk for one of my 1st paintings to picks, a member of the red guard said that a young girl holding a leather belt in her hand. any longer p that it looks like she is just hit someone with it and she is looking at a distorted image of herself in a cracked mirror, cannot easily busy unless she seems lost. how much and confused home yachts here

to hong roy was confident. the exhibition would be a sensation condemned handle. ah, we'll go for it while you're away and i went to the authorities every day to apply for an exhibition space. finally, the artist association told us to give up for that there was no way we would get permanently become a $1000000.00 bill for me to change. so we decided to exhibit outside the national art museum, the national guard or this is offense. oliver is though the wall is all of the the my toe by po friends, perfect of hon. the pictures i offer, atlanta thought to prepare the show. ah, mary jo,

any pavilion we couldn't have the invitations officially printed. so we did it ourselves in secret to india. in that he gets here, i borrowed a printing machine from my work place to that she did a comment to dallas wife type the tax submission will laugh at that in that's how we organized the exhibition too, until they ha, ah, voted the framing, the hanging of the everything propelled until the, the evening the night of had you think that i think now that credit getting credit credit expire. exciting. i think it makes a lot on the whole bathing with the something new and everybody back to home tavares. oh no. a great the next morning, something like a salmon,

the heat o'clock, or something they all got there. he was old tricycle on the bicycle, whatever a ticket from the old of different that isn't under that miss thought hun hung to show. ah woman, i should send me easily. the 10 soldier we 23 explorers of ours are presenting our modest findings. the world offers boundless possibilities to those who wish to explore it. we see the world with our eyes and engaging with our brushes and carving knives. the old o dedicate our works to the earthman and to the people on clunking the for wanted me. 1 to it and also people were 1st shocked

and then surprised garland india. of course some people were baffled. they didn't understand toma ah to the just wanted to know what it all meant is this abstract they asked lou, i just replied it's not abstract. it's just a little deformed and modified inch. ah, to really that's what he tell me. one work was called cry of the people are in the shall fall at the bottom of the picture. there were some small beijing style houses . small bungalows, famish at the top, are outstretched hands, t o little angry hands begging hands, helpless hands,

couldn't radish all kinds of hands accusing hands, expressing the voices of different people, which i mean that you know, they will show you. ah lorena thou, sure. one painting by hong re titled re bath made a great impression on me with the painting to next the ruins of the old summer palace. ega fish she. ah! sure yummy. that time many young artists went to the old summer palace to paint conroy focused on the ruins in the old domes, stones, and columns at the palace. it was july, you're cruel without. he depicted them as human beings. what were you got the feeling they were supporting and lifting one another arm. we've got it's an image that shows an awakening. china, so ship while it's cutting

ball the ball, the paper on a southerly become the i very big thing. we just outside the museum and inside there was an official exhibition you should and some people who've been to the national museum said who your exhibition is much better than the one i sign on. he's gonna kill for the late. how of cause of the visitor's book, the people arrive a love of their love, a wonderful fav from all the different aeration. this old officers took the soldiers that even the workers in pairs of the students, al youngsters, all kinds of people. ringback ah

ah ah ah ah, the reaction was very heartfelt. we'd never seen anything like it done on me, but the exhibit didn't last long. the police broke it up dora or by the police yelled no exhibitions here during july eden. there was

a deathly silence. i'm don't take it all down. they shouted. they were no one moved to police officer turned around and bellow, did the crowd take everything down which i had. i exhibitions are not allowed here . do you hear t m a long ray walked forward and politely asked why the exhibition band. we would like to know what they did already. the police officer replied, if i say no exhibitions are allowed, i know exhibitions are allowed at the police claimed we were disturbing the social order under this pretext the exhibition was ban.

ah i doubt that you are that we saw it as a violation of the chinese constitution whom you citizens have the right to express themselves. he ended it, which i, li, permanent, a joint forces. they worked with the democracy while artists and political activists to demand freedom of art that zeal. i mean, we have no choice anymore. we have to demonstrate. this is not actually what we want to do, right? but we will not allow the abuse and suppression of art to continue to be bothered. schumann lee was the editor of practically the most important of the democracy. charles, at that time, a proof for him. she would

leave us a little bit older than the others and he was quite respected by everybody and a democracy movement. but he and also other activists off the very much aware that they could be arrested at any moment. roger ha, we weren't sure if the communist party would fire shots or make arrests that day. what i just thought, yeah, i have to do this now for you, but i didn't think about the risks of being arrested or killed. mancha said at the time, it's not about winning the battle godaddy, even if the war is doomed to fail. we have to join the fight. you cannot do that. well, yeah, in our country for many historical reasons, there are no laws prohibiting what we have done when we want political democracy. we won't artistic freedom. player, banning the exhibition of the styles is

a violation of the constitution. clearly they don't when i left the house, i left all my valuables. i said good bye to my parents for we were all prepared for the possibility. we wouldn't return home. we were prepared to be arrested if it's all new new it is harvey. news it your empty, who we foreigners were worried about our chinese friends sitting saw depaula. guess you? oh, they had provoked the party. the speeches were recorded with a tape recorder that i given to lou lane that he did that you lead? ah ah sure not a should she to her, but i'm shooting over to chow, ning recorded everything with a film camera,

water sewage it seemed to doing so. he risked his life journey georgia deva to continental drive. i shall took on a johnny. the police immediately became aware of him and arrested him today. oh, well, i don't know how long he was forced to take the film roll out of the camera job and hold it up to the light to destroy the film, baylor. oh holla was when she on you then the police let him go. sugars, cloak football, littlefield heard i asked him if the film was damaged and he said, i only pulled out the part where no shots had been taken yet. come by, this is joe out a lot. he tricked the police. the apollo. ah we can barely hear. why not? we're mad for our meeting. we have prepared leaflets to distribute you. i'm one of the ha. i hope that everyone will receive one. they have heard that there are

enough copies for all of you. read on that. i had a long term. sh, we need a slow gosh. you demand political democracy demand, artistic freedom than you thought when we got to lay a bull cow, we were stopped by a group of police officers. there's a whole place fell quiet. the junior people climb trees to see clearly the short. i figured, you know, you couldn't, it was so quiet. you could have heard a pin drop later on you and meet then a police officer completely overwhelmed. told us we could march towards the beijing municipal building by north shin wall street and che,

on send men. but you show it gingerly the crowd was silent. jigsaw footsteps were in time with our hot beat. that was then we got to the beijing municipal building. ah and then latesha gave a speech of others it was funny was that his walking stick? a pale, ever very excited pair. like i said, there's put a hat on the on the cabin. evelyn. oh oh, oh, oh oh. oh citizens, what bill? countrymen,

i want you to know me. you are human beings. we are all human beings. old. we have the right to speak why that's why they give us a rock. we have used our brushes and carving knives, to honor our country and depict the suffering it has experienced those who squander the public's money and abuse. the people go unpunished because of their political power out of hand. are we really all equal before the law? to laugh. i took all the money he had since you were such a passionate young man, though. yeah. you know, you knew so much about the law. you even research any dontrael hacked? this is where leo, ma'am sham. took a photo of you from behind. i that oh so i am, i'm be about an hour after the speeches the representatives came out of the government

building. come and they were aware of on spot refuse to discuss anything. mm. the demonstration had ended peacefully that yes. shoot. lee, declare the event over that weight. ah, was like hide. why shy? corey? after his see me. he said a word recently. you should join us in a way or can i have, or i actually that's already their 1st stroke by the faith. i park. the 2nd place

so i had my works in their many landscape try the sums and like i said, ya'll or been gone the impression artist the can, the sensitivity, they have um i at that time i was working for i shall sauce place to the foreign press had a tremendous influence, that there was almost a sort of dialogue triangular dialogue between the foreign press and the chinese people and them helping. it was very important for them helping to show that his china was different from the china before. and maybe we can say that at that time he did want to open up china. he did also maybe want some kind of democracy.

was she? and i last article was titled, do we want democracy or new dictatorship? almost everyone wanted democracy for china, but not don. shall ping, in my opinion, he wanted a dictatorship. i. this is one special edition of ton, swore for explorations waiting chung's magazine. it carries the famous article, democracy, or new dictatorship, a long article with many things that we don't remember. but one sentence will remember where he says that done shopping turns out to be the same kind of dictator, s mo and 3 days later he was arrested grandmother. hi, i shouted to go to democracy wall and tell people that waging chung has been arrested. will you be paula?

at that time i was it instituted, i saw a lighting man and the electrician to you then to the lighting for the child. yes. for next day i'm just walking in the bridging cotton and nearly the midnight. i'm about my mother, someone knocking my door an old and and then there's a fall of a came honda. they say that there's a pro series and then to took out a little cassette recorder i took it. and as the way i just recorded was actually be sure i waited in a small restaurant for lu ling lien, who was outside the court waiting for the cassette recorder i lorinda so that tom as soon as to lay gave it to him to call. he went in to the small restaurant and

gave me the table to the birds of that jago. then some a one after transcribing everything for we started printing. so woman jodi, the unit that we printed over 2000 pages at my home being trembled up. then we made big posters out of them and hung them on democracy wall. kendra ah, we're using session, we published the entire transcript of waging chung's trial here, a good one. and that showed the general public how the trial had been manipulated by the communist party and daughter salvage of the of young shall done, shall ping wanted to sentence meat a desk, but because of the fierce political opposition he couldn't. he hated me all the more for that he could only give me a set on so 15 years i was shaken

a little and the guards told not to come down. they thought i was scared, but in reality, i was happy to have survived. i did not die. oh, sheena, you what white ella? oh, miss lad of day. ah, she don't. there was a young embassy attache named emanuel bella, flush biting ching and chinese. we met frequently through the stars artists, gorilla. we fell in love at 1st sight, generalising. a therapy knob very quickly. after a month or 2, i confessed my love to her and immediately told her that i would like to marry her daughter. you who that i think was a marriage between chinese and foreigners, was forbidden at that time, especially embassy staff. ah,

like dull shopping at 1st allowed democracy wall to happen, but in march of 1979 dung shall ping said that's enough of that blue and shocking chinese young shall ping decided to tear down the wall. how the chick he maintained that the area needed to be renovated, so the wall had to be destroyed and replaced with a billboard on can call her moved toward the tilt g. just chinese politics is sometimes flexible. and sometimes strict sonia it's unique condo

depends on the circumstances edition town of dante ah thought deejaying, you hope i was in solitary confinement for over 10 years? bait, kuala, ah, she jean entered you 5 of them. and as sam jones, this marie education where you're supposed to think tardy, taquila only entered you alone. and a 3 square meter room down the us, some me the shelf. that was the hardest part 3. gosh, i guess was james or all 3 jim. liza, i lose this unit and jonah to mail, and then after the 2nd art exhibition of the artist group, the stars further exhibitions were mand so you know what causes i do. there was no

more room to develop in china. and each of us wanted to find a way to get out. there was no big goodbye. i just left 1st to switzerland. eventually france. it should be a visa or do i tell what today to be allowed back into china? people like me have to fill out an application for an agent and agree not to say or do anything that could harm the communist party to hear funding. i can't sign something like that worship, unless you do that when i left mainland china in 1985 with my parents were still alive. that is a, that was a long time ago now. and my parents have since passed away fully. i never returned to china was lemuel to actually to will

building another when i'm with magazine with all i'm always reminded of our time and the artist group, the starter motor back when we took all kinds of raising see data to be able to exhibit with all a sudden it is easy for me, please. i promise to leach wine that i would move heaven and hell to get her out of jail if she was ever arrested in the day of focus on the appraisal. soiled all french delegations. i had to challenge the chinese government about the lease wrong. a fair during state. visits with your boss

on. yeah. on january 26th. 1983. i left china and travelled to a foreign country for my wedding. hula when shit i can't oh england, 985. so we do so again, it is a finally released to america. and i know i came to lisa to england though. i met him in the waterloo station. and after so many years, i wish i had, how did he say the, you saved them? i live i

i'm equal her in j. what's the relationship between art and human rights? it seems like they're separate yet. they're very closely linked in glenn ah, ego. she banished the baby in 1978, my friends, and i initiated a democratic movement in beijing democracy wall. jessica decal act and also gave rise to an artistic movement at producing a number of famous poets and writers. suitable gianni, many of whom, right under pseudonyms and law, will be assured me in the shall, forgot, ah, to the artist group. the stars is still significant. shonasha, it's still relevant in china to day cook. if it all,

sheila and homicides was like hundreds of different flowers blooming at the same time it ah, you saw that, you know, there was emma, what is changed and everything is changed to her. but you could also say that we're right where we started farther away. my european was like the monkey king who can change into 72 shapes, but in the end, returns to what he is a monkey beholder. i ga gov. hogan you each for year and every one in the world wants freedom fits him at the freedom to express themselves. to build out the the gun. mm. new. then jenna wagner. protecting human rights is something we all need to do. sawyer in duncan,

who she up a 50 dollar speech to assemble to unite hours, the censure las air and water. mm mm. mm mm ah, she june long she, a

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