3 Men in Wuhan Crawl in Leashes to Promote Women’s Equality
3 men crawling on the ground in chain leashes led by a woman, claim to be promoting respect for women
February 8th, on Guanggu Road in Wuhan, a woman leads three men in chain leashes crawling on the ground. Amongst them is a man crawling prostrate on the ground, licking the shoe on the woman’s foot. The organizer claims this performance art is to show opposition against a male society, and call for equality between men and women.
[Above] 25-year-old Kang Yi (center) majored in oil painting in college. In 2005, he threw himself into creating contemporary art, and in recent years has been exhibiting throughout the country various thematic performance art. Amongst them includes exchanging slaps with someone who was suffers paralysis of the face and kneeling on the ground thanking sanitation workers. This time is him and his team’s first time coming to Wuhan.
Kang Yi explained, that females as the vulnerable group often are the victims of domestic violence, sexism, and other undesirable phenomenon. This one work of theirs is mainly to slam the thinking of men being superior to women, and call for the safeguarding of females’ legal rights and interests. When this reporter inquired whether using this method was too extreme, Kang Yi replied honestly: “Art is always exaggerated, and only in this way can it attract eyeballs”. Photo is of Kang Yi licking the woman’s shoe.
Kang Yi and his people’s “performance” stopped many passersby to watch. Many older interviewees uniformly expressed that they didn’t understand what they saw. One old man directly expressed his disgust, saying “simply sensationalism, too disgusting”.
3 men crawling on the ground in chain leashes led by a woman, claim to be promoting respect for women
February 8th, on Guanggu Road in Wuhan, a woman leads three men in chain leashes crawling on the ground. Amongst them is a man crawling prostrate on the ground, licking the shoe on the woman’s foot. The organizer claims this performance art is to show opposition against a male society, and call for equality between men and women.
[Above] 25-year-old Kang Yi (center) majored in oil painting in college. In 2005, he threw himself into creating contemporary art, and in recent years has been exhibiting throughout the country various thematic performance art. Amongst them includes exchanging slaps with someone who was suffers paralysis of the face and kneeling on the ground thanking sanitation workers. This time is him and his team’s first time coming to Wuhan.
Kang Yi explained, that females as the vulnerable group often are the victims of domestic violence, sexism, and other undesirable phenomenon. This one work of theirs is mainly to slam the thinking of men being superior to women, and call for the safeguarding of females’ legal rights and interests. When this reporter inquired whether using this method was too extreme, Kang Yi replied honestly: “Art is always exaggerated, and only in this way can it attract eyeballs”. Photo is of Kang Yi licking the woman’s shoe.
Kang Yi and his people’s “performance” stopped many passersby to watch. Many older interviewees uniformly expressed that they didn’t understand what they saw. One old man directly expressed his disgust, saying “simply sensationalism, too disgusting”.
