Nut Brother’s Latest Detention Highlights Performance Artists' Precarity

Nut Brother’s Latest Detention Highlights Performance Artists' Precarity

On June 30, the performance artist and environmental activist known as Nut Brother (坚果兄弟), along with his collaborator and art curator Zheng Hongbin, disappeared after returning from a trip investigating industrial pollution in Xiaohaotu County, Shaanxi Province. It was later revealed that the pair were placed in a 20-day administrative detention by the Yulin Public Security Bureau for "picking quarrels and provoking trouble." A successful legal…