Performance
Artists Arrested in Rangoon - The Irrawaddy,
May 12, 2005
Three Burmese performance artists were arrested on May 6 and
went on to spend four days in police custody after putting on a
public show in the capital, Rangoon.
According to sources, Chaw Ei Thein, one of Burma’s leading
woman artists, Htein Lin, an experimental artist regarded as a performance
art pioneer and a third unnamed artist were arrested on suspicion
of their work being politically motivated. Their performance is
understood to have involved setting up a stall and selling traditional
medicines priced according an obsolete monetary system...
Mainly concentrated in the two largest cities of Rangoon and Mandalay,
the modern Burmese art scene is notable not only for its almost
unrivalled creativity, but also its ability to confuse and unsettle
traditionally minded government departments...
Performance Artists Arrested in Rangoon
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