Josef Ng | |
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| Born | Josef Ng Sing Chor 1972 (age 51–52) |
| Known for | Performance art |
| Notable work | Brother Cane (1994) |
Josef Ng Sing Chor[1] (Chinese: 吴承祖; pinyin: Wú Chéngzǔ; born 1972) is a Singaporean gallerist and former performance artist.[2] He is known for his 1994 public performance Brother Cane, at the end of which he partially exposed his buttocks and snipped his pubic hair. Brother Cane was reportedly staged in protest of the imprisonment and caning of a group of homosexual men in Singapore the previous year; Ng called his hair-snipping a "symbolic gesture for an artistic purpose". He was handed a lifetime public performance ban by the National Arts Council and fined for violating the Penal Code. Ng later became a curator at various art galleries.