"YOU DO NOT NEED TO KEEP ME IN THE CAGE ANYMORE"
Milan Kohout staged a performance in the Boston Railway Station during rush hour on May 30, 2000. For two hours he stood in a cage from 4pm to 6pm and talked to people passing by explaining he was in a cage because he had once been "an unreasonable critic of the capitalist system", but now he had "accepted the capitalist market and recognized that system to be the best one in the history of humankind" he then followed, "i now agree that whoever doesn't have money shouldn't have health care, and if you don't have good school fine because you are poor."
"I love market economy, no reason to keep me here anymore, it's the best!"
He said society had the right to put him in the cage because he was a critic of the capital system, but now that he had changed his mind, he should be freed.
Milan Kohout thinks artists should be the conscience of society, even if they express ideas that are not so pleasant to face.
http://www.mobius.org/mobius_artists.php?id=milan
http://radicaljesters.com/v2/performance/
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