中國人權現況講座場次九
從國殤之柱（Pillar of Shame）看中國對於香港校園與社會箝制與壓迫- 曬書店台南新營場
主持人：郭歷軒（華人民主書院協會倡議主任）
主講人：高志活（Jens Galschiøt）（線上連線，丹麥藝術創作家，國殤之柱創作者）
與談人：梁文韜（成功大學政治系教授）、黃國才（香港視覺藝術家，目前移居台中）
時間：2021.11.06 14:00-16:00
主辦單位：華人民主書院協會
協辦單位：曬書店
Pillar of Shame forced to leave Hong Kong, the first sound event in Taiwan
Press Release
The Pillar of Shame (Danish: Skamstøtten), which was erected at the University of Hong Kong for 24 years since December 1998 to commemorate the June 4 massacre, was reported to be in violation of the Hong Kong National Security Law. A legal letter was sent by the University of Hong Kong through Mayer Brown, requesting the Hong Kong Alliance in Support of Patriotic Democratic Movements of China (HKASPDMC) to remove the Pillar of Shame from their campus by the deadline of October 13 2021. Jens Galschiøt, The Danish artist who created the Pillar of Shame, also issued a statement on October 12 stating that he is the owner of the Pillar of Shame. He has appointed a lawyer to write to the University of Hong Kong requesting a hearing on the matter, hoping that the University will respect its ownership and remove the Pillar of Shame from Hong Kong intact. He has planned to relocate the Pillar of Shame to other countries for an international exhibition tour first
In an interview with Deutsche Welle, Jens Galschiøt said, “Now I really want to put it in Taiwan”. Thus, the New School for Democracy, which has been promoting the June Fourth memorial in Taiwan for many years, wish to invite him to discuss the idea behind the creation of the Pillar of Shame with Taiwanese people for the first time through an online speech, and to explore the development space of relocating the Pillar of Shame to Taiwan after the international exhibition tour.
The speech is scheduled to be held on November 6 at the independent bookstore @2booksite in Xinying District, Tainan City .
Professor Leung Man To of the Department of Political Science at National Cheng Kung University, a long-time supporter of democratic development in Hong Kong, and visual artist Kacey Wong, who moved to Taiwan to escape from the implementation of the National Security Law in Hong Kong, will speak on the subject from the perspectives of democratic freedom and the tightening of space for artistic creation.