Performance Art “Not to Leave the Cage Unless You Have to” in Beijing Film Academy 3 Favorite 

Direct Cause: Students' freedom to enter and leave the campus has been restricted for two weeks, but the university has not even issued an official document, only a verbal rule of "not leaving the campus unless necessary."
Objective: To protest the arbitrary closure policy of Beijing Film Academy.

Result: The work attracted the attention of netizens. Subsequently, the record of the work was completely blocked in mainland China, but a copy of “Thoughts and Suggestions on the Closure of the Beijing Film Academy” was circulated on the Internet.

On Nov 22 2021, a performance art piece created by a student at the Beijing Film Academy went viral on Weibo. In the work, a student is trapped in a cage, with a mask covering his eyes, and a card above the cage reads “Not to Leave the Cage Unless You Have to”.

This is a work of performance art full of irony. The mask blinds the artist’s eyes, implying that the upper class is sweeping in their policy and ignores the real needs of people; Sitting gracefully shows that people remain virtuous despite being trapped in a cage; The fact that the cage looks strong but full of gaps symbolizes the real world security system full of loopholes and does nothing but stop students; The audience of onlookers and photographers work together to create this work, symbolizing that we are just animals and exhibits in a cage.