按：不能讓戰爭干擾日常生活，包括藝術生活。來自緬甸的藝術家與大家分享他的獄中創作與抗爭。我會去，有無人會想一齊來？
Htein Lin's painting and performance art explores the restrictions he has faced as an artist in Burma, where he pioneered performance art in 1996. Imprisoned from 1998 to 2004 as political prisoner number 00235, he struggled to keep painting in a twelve-by-nine-foot cell, constrained by space and the absence of canvas, paint, brushes and permission to paint.
Forced to improvise with cotton prison uniforms, soap bars, cigarette lighters, syringes smuggled from the prison hospital, and the back of his tin plate, he was nonetheless able to create the art he wanted, unconstrained by time, censorship or the market, developing a unique style of printing and painting. Over two hundred of his jail paintings are now deposited with the Institute of Social History in Amsterdam. Since his release, he has the space to paint, but still has had to cope with Burma's unfamiliarity with contemporary art, and the constraints of a government unfamiliar with and deeply suspicious of anything which breaks out of the pattern of pagoda sunsets and upsets the bullock cart.
Htein Lin will discuss his experiences as an artist in and out of prison in Burma, and demonstrate the techniques he has developed. www.hteinlin.com
Event Details:
Talk: Constrained Art
Speaker: Htein LIN, a Burmese artist now based in London
Date and Time: Thursday 26th April 2007, 6:30–8:00pm
Venue: Asia Art Archive, 11/F Hollywood Centre, 233 Hollywood Road, Sheung Wan, Hong Kong
Registration required (SEATS LIMITED): [email protected] or call Susanna Chung on 2815 1112
To arrange interviews, please contact Chantal Wong on [email protected] or 2815 1112
Free admission. Conducted in English