Cheval de l'herbe et de la boue. Le Cheval de l'herbe et de la boue ou Cǎonímǎ 草泥马 est un animal mythique et un symbole utilisé par les internautes chinois pour lutter contre la censure sur l'Internet en Chine.
草泥马style. Cheval de l'herbe et de la boue. Un article de Wikipédia, l'encyclopédie libre.
Caonima (déclinaison peluche). Étymologie[modifier | modifier le code] Cao Ni Ma, dites « Cheval de l’herbe et de la boue » ou « lama boueux », est censé être une espèce d'alpaga. Le nom est dérivé du terme cào nǐ mā (Chinois : 操你妈), équivalent de « nique ta mère ». Le nom n'est pas strictement un homophone, car les mots possèdent les tons différents. Ai Weiwei, Caonima (Gangnam) Style. Ce n’est probablement pas la meilleure parodie, mais c'est peut-être celle qui parle le plus.
Tee-shirt rose et veste noire, Ai Weiwei s’est lui aussi lancé dans la chorégraphie du succès planétaire coréen de Park Jae-sang alias Psy. « Grand frère, Gangnam Style » dit la chanson en coréen. L’artiste chinois l’a transformé en « Nique ta mère, Caonima Style » et avec... des menottes ! Danse Ai Weiwei, danse…. Cela s’appelle faire des risettes aux autorités chinoises et visiblement cela n'a pas fait du tout rire Pékin. L’affront est tel que cette nouvelle parodie du tube planétaire coréen, postée jeudi sur Youku (le Youtube chinois), a été immédiatement censurée. Gangnam Style, the Ai Weiwei way. Ai Weiwei, the dissident Chinese artist, has officially hopped on the Gangnam Style bandwagon.
On Wednesday Ai tweeted a cover version of South Korean rapper Psy's enormously popular music video, featuring the hefty 55-year-old artist – brow furrowed, grey-bearded, sunglasses on – dancing frenetically with a cohort of associates in his Beijing courtyard studio. In the four-minute video Ai, wearing a bright pink shirt and black suit, imitates Psy's signature horse-riding dance and at one stage loses his sunglasses in the process. The footage is spliced with clips from Psy's original video but none of it showing the rapper himself. About 55 seconds in Ai pulls a pair of handcuffs from his pocket and waves them above his head, a possible reference to the 81 days he spent in detention last spring. Anish Kapoor to make Gangnam Style video. British-Indian artist Anish Kapoor is to make a version of the Gangnam Style video to promote free speech.
The sculptor is gathering other artists, actors and dancers to help him recreate the video, originally by South Korean pop star Psy. The new video will be in response to – and in support of – a similar project by dissident Chinese artist Ai Weiwei. The version by Mr Ai featured him waving handcuffs in criticism of the Chinese government's actions in arresting and detaining him without charge for more almost three months last year.
Access to it online in China was quickly blocked by the Chinese authorities. Kapoor helped lead a campaign calling upon China to release Mr Ai last year. The 58 year-old added that many public figures would take part in the new video. He also revealed that the video would be "bonkers" and feature participants behaving like "idiots". The original Gangnam Style video and distinctive dance move has become a cultural phenomenon this year. Watch Anish Kapoor’s “Gangnam Style” Parody Video in Support of Ai Weiwei. Gangnam for Freedom - Anish Kapoor and Friends. Art world goes Gangnam Style mad in solidarity with Ai Weiwei.
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Click here to view "Refreshments from 6.30pm" was arguably the most important element of Anish Kapoor's invitation to fellow artists and their friends to take part in a mass Gangnam Style video at his south London studio on Thursday ight. Was it the beer and wine that led to its success, or the calm direction of choreographer Akram Khan? Whatever the answer, the event – in support of Ai Weiwei, after the Chinese authorities banned his parody of the viral video – was something of a triumph. Around 250 people of varying Gangnam skills answered Kapoor's call, including artists Mark Wallinger, Bob and Roberta Smith and Tom Phillips, and arts establishment figures such as Alison Myners, chair of the ICA, and Tamara Rojo, artistic director of the English National Ballet.
"It had to be done," said Kapoor, proudly wearing a luminous pink shirt. The Making of Anish Kapoor’s Politically Charged "Gangnam Style" Video. Yesterday, 250 people gathered at Anish Kapoor’s vast studio in South London to shoot a Gangnam Style video in support of Ai Weiwei and political dissidents across the globe.
The piece is a response to a parody clip of Psy’s K-pop hit circulated by the Chinese artist and activist three weeks ago, in which he transformed the original horse riding-themed choreography into an evocation of handcuffed hands. The video went viral, but Ai Weiwei’s tongue-in-cheek comment on the lack of freedom in China didn’t go down well with the authorities, which blocked it shortly after its release. At the studio doors last night, assistants were handing out leaflets with a message from Kapoor. It read: “in this time of economic difficulty it would appear that governments all over the world are afraid to criticize authoritarian regimes and as a result human rights and freedom of expression suffer for many million of people. IT IS OUR DUTY NOW AS INDIVIDUALS TO ACT.”