The authorities of HongKong had tried to obstruct the painting of the sculpture by denying the Danish artist Jens Galschiot and his staff access to Hong Kong as they landed in the airport on April 26. The expulsion has caused wide discussions in Hong Kong about whether China is now introducing their own visa rules and censorship on to Hong Kong. The Danish artist has been in Hong Kong several times before and is known for making peaceful art installations. He has put up The Pillar of Shame which has become a renowned memorial about the massacre on the Tiananmen square in Beijing 1989. The Chinese Democracy Movement decided to paint the sculpture orange by themselves to put focus on Human Rights in China and show support to the world wide project TheColorOrange about using Orange in connection to the Olympic Games 2008 to boost the awareness about the Human Rights violations in China. This video about the event in HongKong has been produced by Niller Madsen, 'Odense ser Rødt'

Author: Galschiot
Keywords: hong kong color orange art galschiot pillar of shame painting democracy movement sudan tibet china beijing Olympic Games aidoh thecolororange denmark human rights niller madsen sculpture expulsion olympic torch mia farrow International Olympic committee IOC national olympic committee NOC
Added: Tue, 27 May 2008 12:02:29 GMT

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På trods af kulden en kold decemberdag er en nøgen korsfæstet gravid teenager alligevel udstillet foran domkirken i København.. Med denne skulptur forsøger kunstneren Jens Galschiøt at fremme budskabet om bredere og bedre oplysning om præventionsmidler m.m. i den tredje verden.

Author: Galschiot
Keywords: prævention kunst gravid teenager jens galschiøt galschiot skulptur fundamentalisme københavn oplysning i guds navn
Added: Fri, 26 Oct 2007 11:25:41 GMT

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- For at anklage de uetiske investeringer i belgiske banker. En 8 meter høj bibelsk guldkalv belagt med 24 karat guld førte an i et optog af artister, en klovnehær, sambadansere og borgere i den belgiske by Chent.

Author: Galschiot
Keywords: Belgien kunst chent skulptur guld kalv bibelsk samba uetisk investering aidoh happening galschiot
Added: Fri, 26 Oct 2007 11:17:02 GMT

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To universitetsstuderende finder Jens Galschiøts værker yderst interessante. Især den gravide teenager på korset har fanget deres opmærksomhed og i den grad rettet mod den kristne fundamentalisme...

Author: Galschiot
Keywords: fundamentalisme kunst aidoh kristendommen gravid teenager prævention aids happening galschiot
Added: Fri, 26 Oct 2007 10:24:22 GMT

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Beast - mounting of one-ton heavy black concrete sculptures in famous places in twenty cities across Europe. The sculptures represent a pig in human clothes. The project has been called the biggest art happening in Europe. The purpose was, in an untraditional way, to focus on the increasing violence, intolerance, racism and persecution of minorities, that Europe witnessing these years. The Silent death - a happening highlighting the absurdity of the global imbalance and the double standard of morallity in the western world. It was carried out during the UN's social summit in Copenhagen 1995. 750 figures of children(a total of 5 tons) were fettered to benches, lamp posts etc. all over the city. The figures were made of cloth and stuffed with gravel. Their size was like 3-9 year old children. They symbolized the 35.000, who die every day, because of hunger and lack of medicine, primarily in the poorest countries.

Author: Galschiot
Keywords: art galschiot sculpture copenhagen children poor hunger medicine death aidoh
Added: Fri, 26 Oct 2007 08:23:26 GMT

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The first Pillar of Shame was set up in Hong Kong on June the 4th 1997 to denounce the crackdown of the democracy movement 1989 in Bejing. Setting up the pillar ahead of the hand-over on 1st July, was a way of placing the sculpture on Chinese territory. Expressing an overt accusation of the old men's regime in Bejing, it functions as a litmus test of the authorities' vow to respect human rights and free speech in Hong Kong.

Author: Galschiot
Keywords: hong kong bejing politics galschiot art pillar of shame human rights aidoh happening
Added: Wed, 24 Oct 2007 12:38:27 GMT

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Jens Galschiøt tog til Palæstina for at sætte sig ind i den alvorlige konflikt, der udspiller sig mellem Israel og Palæstina. I forsøget på at gøre en forskel i denne er han på jagt efter folk, der til daglig lever i og med denne splittelse, men som han selv opsøger humanisme og tilgivelse så vidt muligt.

Author: Galschiot
Keywords: palæstina israel kunst galschiøt happening konflikt humanisme politik aidoh
Added: Wed, 24 Oct 2007 12:20:42 GMT

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A movie about the sculpture, which is created on the Octopus Robe, designed by one of the world's most renowned Haute Couture designers, Danish Erik Mortensen. As early as 1989 Mortensen and Galschiot agreed on a co-operation of transforming the art of Haute Couture into sculptural art. However, the idea did not take concrete form until 1998, when the school for Fashion and Design of Odense requested the two artists to create a sculpture for the new buildings of the school. (this movie is in Danish).

Author: Galschiot
Keywords: art aidoh galschiot artist erik mortensen designer haute couture octopus robe happening
Added: Wed, 24 Oct 2007 11:27:42 GMT

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The first Pillar of Shame was set up in Hong Kong on June the 4th 1997 to denounce the crackdown of the democracy movement 1989 in Bejing. Setting up the pillar ahead of the hand-over on 1st July, was a way of placing the sculpture on Chinese territory. Expressing an overt accusation of the old men's regime in Bejing, it functions as a litmus test of the authorities' vow to respect human rights and free speech in Hong Kong. (this movie is in Danish)

Author: Galschiot
Keywords: hong kong bejing politics galschiot art pillar of shame human rights aidoh happening
Added: Wed, 24 Oct 2007 10:07:43 GMT

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On the occasion of 1st May 1999 the Pillar of Shame was set up on the Zócalo in the Mexican capital. For two days the sculpture towered in front of the parliament to pillory the opression of the indigenous people.

Author: Galschiot
Keywords: mexico galschiot art politics aidoh pillar of shame indigenous massacre
Added: Wed, 24 Oct 2007 09:45:58 GMT

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On April the 17th 2000 a Pillar of Sahme was erected in front of the parliament, on the square of three Powers in the Brazilian capital. The sculpture was set up in commememoration of the 19 landless peasants who were killed by the military police in the northern state of Pará on April 17th 1996. On May the 1st the Pillar of Shame, dubbed 'nobel prize of injustice', was set up for good in Belém, capital of the nothern state of Pará, where the Eldorado massacre had taken place in connection with a land occupation. The sculpture was set up in the wake of fierce scuffles, between protestors against impunity and the police. (this movie is in Danish)

Author: Galschiot
Keywords: art sculpture galschiot aidoh pillar of shame Brazil politics massacre police protest eldorado
Added: Wed, 24 Oct 2007 09:17:37 GMT

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An introduction to the work of Jens Galschiot with pictures of selected sculptures by the political artist. Impressive music will join the picture serial.

Author: Galschiot
Keywords: art galschiot sculpture politics artist picture aidoh
Added: Wed, 24 Oct 2007 08:15:07 GMT

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An art manifestation carried out November 1997 in co-operation with students and teachers of the 'Tornbjerg Gymnasium'. On a huge open area 2500 white crosses were set up. Each of the students and employees had received 5 crosses on which they were asked to write their personal statements on pollution and their visions for sustainable development. The cross is, indeed, a very strong symbol. Apparently some found it too strong. The cross installation was destroyed by vandals in the dead of the night after just one day of exhibition.

Author: Galschiot
Keywords: art galschiot cross pollution enviroment earth exhibition vandalism development
Added: Fri, 12 Oct 2007 09:48:09 GMT

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Skulpturen blev udstillet i forbindelse med 'Global Week of Action' i april 2005. Den blev stillet op på rådhuspladsen i København for at belyse kampagnen for fair trade. Dette besynderlige værk består af et par vægtskåle, 8 meter høj. På den ene side hænger en død ko i sine ben, og på den anden et antal afrikanere (i kobber). Skulpturen peger på den groteske omstændighed at hver ko i EU modtager en understøttelse på 800 dollars for at blokere de fattige lande mod at sælge deres produkter på det europæiske marked. The sculpture was launched during the Global Week of Action, April 2005. It was set up on the Town Hall square of Copenhagen to highlight the campaign for fair trade. This peculiar piece of art consists og a pair of scales, 8 metres high. On one arm hangs a dead cow by its legs, on the other a number of Africans (in copper). The sculpture will point up the grotespue fact that each cow in the EU receives a subvention of 800 dollars to block the poor countries from selling their procucts on the European market. (This movie is in Danish)

Author: Galschiot
Keywords: cow ko galschiot EU europe europa subvention understøttelse global week of action fair trade art kunst happening copenhagen københavn sculpture skulptur grotesque grotesk
Added: Fri, 12 Oct 2007 08:41:46 GMT

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Opstilling af en et tons tung sort skulptur på berømte pladser i tyve byer i Europa. Skulpturen forestiller en gris i mennesketøj. Projektet er kendt som den største kunst happening i Europa. Formålet var at fokusere på stigende voldelighed, intolerance, racisme og forfølgelse af minoriteter, Europa vidner om i dag. Mounting of one-ton heavy black concrete sculptures in famous places in twenty cities across Europe. The sculptures represent a pig in human clothes. The project has been called the biggest art happening in Europe. The purpose was, in an untraditional way, to focus on the increasing violence, intolerance, racism and persecution of minorities, that Europe witnessing these years. (This movie is in Danish)

Author: Galschiot
Keywords: sculpture skulptur art kunst pig gris galschiot europe europa violence vold intolerance racism racisme happening city storby capitalism kapitalisme
Added: Fri, 12 Oct 2007 08:28:39 GMT

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In the summer of 2002 a crowd of 27 starving African boys cast in copper started a tour throughout the country to protest against the government's cutback of development aid. Jens Galschiot launched the initiative in cooperation with the NGO Forum in Aarhus. Hundreds of volunteers took part in the creation of the sculptures in the artist's workshop and subsequently in the mobilisation of the boys all over the country. The hunger March is a reminder that if the world's need and distress is not relieved the desperate victims will some day be knocking on our door.

Author: Galschiot
Keywords: hunger poor march galschiot NGO development arfrica volunteer victims government dying
Added: Thu, 11 Oct 2007 11:13:40 GMT

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Pictures from a sculptural event in Kenya, a documentary by Niller Madsen. A sculpture of a crucifyed pregnant teengaer is set up in Nairobi, where the political message comes to its right through an intense discussion, where the risk of being HIV infected is clashed with poverty, religion, African culture, ecclesiastical dogmas and sexual abstinence.. All this are light up by for instense Forum Theathre at World Social Forum 2007

Author: Galschiot
Keywords: innocence WorldSocialForum crucifixion Kenya In the Name of God NGO Galschiot Happening Art Aidoh Gravid Teenager
Added: Thu, 27 Sep 2007 11:43:06 GMT

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