Chin art revolt, flashmob in Beijing against demolition of artist studios, more to come

The real estate bubble in Beijing embraces the areas between 4th and 5th ring road and push's north without mercy. Rents are still affordable in these zones, so most artist have for years studios there. Since January Artist studios are systematically demolished, within 3 days TO GO notice, prior shutting down electricity and water. And this in winter time. Why? Well the government wants to sell the land to investors, so before land is not freed, no investor invests. Global economy, media rumor says that the housing bubble in China is far more dangerous than in Dubai.

My beloved female local bank managing director, which prefers to be wrapped in cashmere and silk, tells, that the government stopped suddenly all money flow for banks which deal with foreign investment. So system is in chaos now, I asked: is that not the best time for banks, if chaos rules, she answered, no: because inexperienced government people interfere and create more chaos.

Now artist get-together, rent busses, hide and jump in subways of Beijing and quietly manifest there dissents. And because Avatar is the one movie to go for these days. In Beijing people still cuing, so artist took masks as camouflage and change subway-trains under the Tiananmen square.

My experience of the day: the normal policeman are not well trained and loosing easy control, one incident heated dangerously up only by jumping in the next incoming train, escalation was avoided. I mean its good that police exists, but they should get better training how to react properly towards human recourses (HR). By the way I discovered the existence of the word, HR in London, the British have sometimes clear words for mass control.

Many chinese identify them selfs with the Na'vi tribe in the movie Avatar - the tribe which rises up against the evil, with the help of mother nature and the animal kingdom. Government stopped the screening of the 2D version and instead launched the movie Confucius.

Coincidence or not local and central governments are issuing new laws for property developers, because too much unrest is generated with the above described method. Will see how much Oscars, James Cameron's movie will grab, well we know box office sales count, No. 1 film with $75 million in US tickets, Avatar Gross $2,688,514 Theaters 3,074 Total gross $601,141,551 Days in play 47, and is up for to cross the 2 Billion mark. The site http://www.avatarmovie.com/ is blocked in China's happy internet.

Maybe we need one secret lab which grows genetically engineered Na'vi bodies, because it seams that todays humanoids surviving in these mega cities, are hopelessly disconnected to nature, but instinctively craving for. This for sure "Rattenfaenger" James Cameron knows, how to catch a million mouse's. As for Beijing, this city is build in the desert, horizontally embedded in an huge pool of concrete. The buildings, vertically joined in an matrix of aluminum, steel and glass, the embodiment of megapolis, with exponential growth. Between such a matrix, people try quietly to sell them self to survive.

To sum up, if government is selling land and makes people loose there home they should properly compensate them and not just put them on streets. For some of the artist this is a way to homelessness, Others, yes that has to be also said, can retreat to there apartments and look for new studios. What happens for sure to all, that they lose their workspace, which in most cases is the living place too and very tragic.

Question remains, can artist make the government aware how wrong the procedure is and how badly managed. I think organizing flash mobs through the city, spontaneous and quiet with good media and internet coverage is the way to go. Flash mobs organize through mobile phone network, passing instant location of meetings, they surface suddenly and they disappear into anonymity.

Be ware, if artist are under pressure they come up with surprising ideas, history shows that artists work harder when suppressed, because than target is without camouflage.