Gao Brothers
Beijing New Art Projects
4 Jiuxianqiao Road,
The Factory 798 Art District, Beijing
P.O.Box 8503 Beijing 100015 China
Tel: +86 10 84566660
Fax: +86 10 84566660
http://www.world-hug-day.net

Keywords
Hug, Love, Utopia, World Participation, China, Gao Brothers, Performance Art

Here, we propose the "World Hug Day" project. We started it in Shangdong Province, China, together with a worldwide Internet project, an interactive international campaign via the Internet, and have got enormous feedback and support.

We carrried out the first performance of group hug, "The Utopia Of Hugging For Twenty Minutes" on 10September 2000. We invited some 150 volunteers, who were previously strangers to each other, to participate. We asked the participants to choose a person at random for a hug at the same time, and then cluster into group hugs. Since then, we have hugged hundreds of strangers, and organized group hugs for strangers in different public locations in different ways many times.