Comments on: Man Streaks Outside Nobel Banquet Hall In Stockholm To Protest Mo Yan [UPDATE: Liao Yiwu Was There!]

By: TARnation

TARnation — Fri, 14 Dec 2012 10:03:32 +0000

Very good show, STOIC.

By: STOIC

STOIC — Fri, 14 Dec 2012 08:23:57 +0000

You’re welcome. Happy to contribute to an excellent blog. Let me know if you need bits of scandinavian translated in the future.

By: The Tao

The Tao — Fri, 14 Dec 2012 08:16:17 +0000

THANK YOU

By: » That Streaker At The Nobel Banquet Was Artist Meng Huang, Accompanied By German Peace Prize Recipient And Chinese Exile Liao Yiwu Beijing Cream

Fri, 14 Dec 2012 07:34:38 +0000

[...] last video we just put up of a man streaking outside the Nobel Banquet Hall in Stockholm wasn’t just some prankster after a laugh, or a drunk man who’d lost his wits. It was [...]

By: STOIC

STOIC — Fri, 14 Dec 2012 07:29:11 +0000

Liao has been involved in the Swedish debate on the prize earlier this year, calling it “the Nobel prize’s bigest dishonour in a hundred years”

Liao’s comment in Sweden’s major daily Dagens Nyheter:
http://www.dn.se/dnbok/dnbok-hem/liao-yiwu-att-skriva–utan-att-vittna-ar-skamligt

By: STOIC

STOIC — Fri, 14 Dec 2012 07:22:33 +0000

That’s right, according to SVT (Swedish state television). Here’s the first paragraphs of the second article, in a rough translation:

“- There were absolutely no signs of intoxication, says SVT Culture News photographer Mikael Eriksson.

The background story to the nude action, which attracted a lot of attention last night, involved Liao Yiwu, Meng Huang and an additional regime critic who had planned a protest action against Mo Yan being awarded the Nobel prize.

The plan was to bring a chair for Mo Yan to give to the jailed dissident Liu Xiaobo. It would symbolise the empty chair meant for Xiaobo when he could not attent the Nobel peace price ceremony in 2010, due to him being in jail.

But since the chair never arrived, the artist trio decided to perform a different action. In central Stockholm, Huang got undressed and jumped the fence, dashig towards the concert hall, cheered on by Liao Yiwu (the man in the blac coat in the video)”

It’s a bit unclear what they mean in regards to the chair Mo Yan was to give to Liu Xiaobo.

By: Hannah

Hannah — Fri, 14 Dec 2012 07:10:14 +0000

way to cite Notes on a Mosquito, well done

By: The Tao

The Tao — Fri, 14 Dec 2012 07:00:58 +0000

Sorry hold all horses and phones etc – does that article/video say THE Liao Yiwu was there, and that Meng Huang was the one streaking?

By: STOIC

STOIC — Fri, 14 Dec 2012 06:50:07 +0000

In a second article, journalists at the scene refute the fact that the man was drunk. Its also mentioned the man and two friends also at the scene were writers/artists in exile, who’d come specifically to protest against the award.

The second article, also in Swedish:
http://www.svt.se/kultur/de-uppforde-sig-lungt-och-redligt