Press Release
12th of may 1997

   
Updated: 20-06-00

To the editor 

Dear Sir/Madam,

A global art happening called the Pillar of Shame has started. The first original sculpture has been shipped and is in this moment crossing the Indian Ocean with course to Hong Kong. This eight metres high art missile will arrive on 25th May. In cooperation with 50,000 Chinese pro democracy demonstrators the sculpture will be mounted for the commemoration of the short Chinese spring in '89.
Set up in Hong Kong on 4th June, a few weeks before the handover, some will view the sculpture almost as a terror act. However, the Pillar of Shame is a scuiptural outcry from an artist with the right to say what he likes, to the Chinese people who risk their lives for making use of the same right.

Jens Galschiot

The old cannot kill the young forever

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PILLAR OF SHAME - A Happening of Remembrance