Episode 008 Nutbrother: Playing pranks on the society
As a fast-growing country, China has encountered a lot of challenges in many social aspects. There are more and more contemporary artists from this country creatively and critically express their ideas and concerns through social art. Nutbrother is the most humorous one among them. Based in Shenzhen, the artist is curious how modern life is undergoing rapid changes in Chinese urban environments. Throughout the years he raised much social awareness for such topics as environmental protection, excessive consumerism, education gap between the city and the rural. He is also know as a savvy social media user that carryout a significant part of his practices on Douban, WeChat and Weibo. In this episode, Nutbrother walked me through many funny yet heavy moments in his creative life, and how he tries to conduct the kind of art practise separated from mainstream art circle but in the quotidian life of everyday China.