Yang Zhichao

 Born in 1963 Yang Zhichao attempts to raise social issues through his performances and has achieved notoriety through extreme actions such as branding his ID number on his body, planting grass on his back, and surgically implanting objects in his leg and stomach.  His work is concerned with the body, and how, in an age of science and technology, our bodies no longer belong to ourselves but to society and the state.