(11 Jan 2008)
Shun Yi district, Beijing - November 2007
1. Mid shot pig
2. Wide shot of Beijing Art Farm
3. Mid of workers playing with pig
4. Mid of worker feeding pigs
5. Various tattoos on pigs
6. Various mid shots of pigs playing
7. Close-up of Louis Vutton pattern on one pig
8. Various of pigs
9. Mid of pig on table preparing to be tattooed
10. Close-up of woman tattoo artist preparing needle
11. Mid of patterns on paper and tattoo pattern on pig
12. various tattoo artists tattooing pig
13. Tilt up from patten on paper to tattoo artist
14. Close-up of hand doing tattoo
15. Close-up of face of pig being tattooed
16. SOUNDBITE: (Mandarin) Yang Wei-Ping, Tattoo Artist, Beijing Art Farm:
"This line was done last week. This week I am going to do the "fogging", that is to colour it. After colouring, it will be done. Tattoo are all the same, I do the same as I do with human bodies."
17. Close-up anaesthetic injection
18. Various tattoo artist at work
19. SOUNDBITE: (Mandarin) Yang Wei-Ping, Tattoo Artist, Beijing Art Farm:
"It is something new to me, it is the first time I did it."
20. Various Pan Hai-Long putting sunblock on pigs
21. SOUNDBITE: (Mandarin) Pan Hai-Long, Worker at Beijing Art Farm:
"We put cream on to protect the skin. Because the tattooed skins of pigs have scars on the cream helps it heal. Additionally when the pigs are out, the heat will make their skins red. So to protect their skins we put cream on."
22. Various of tattooed pigs eating and playing in yard
23. SOUNDBITE: (English), Michael Hue-Williams, Director of Albion Gallery, London, UK:
"Tattooing has a history of being considered an art form, and this is just an extension of an idea that exists already in a very particular way. Wim has created something entirely new and I've seen their finished works shown in museums and in galleries all over the world and yes, it's definitely considered an art form."
24. Various of tattooed pigs eating
33. SOUNDBITE: (English) Wim Delvoye, Belgian Artist:
"In China, the pigs mean also a lot of positive things, happiness, fertility, wealth, luckiness, so pigs mean a lot of positive things here."
34. Close-up pig in pen
LEAD IN:
In the Chinese zodiac, pigs symbolise character traits such as diligence, compassion and generosity.
And now a farm on the outskirts of Beijing is transforming pigs into art forms.
But first the pigs must be decorated with elaborate tattoos.
STORYLINE:
These pigs on the Beijing Art Farm, 60 kilometres (37 miles) east of Beijing in Shun Yi District, look pretty content.
They are well fed, their enclosures are air conditioned in summer and heated in winter.
The dozen or so pigs are washed twice a day and fed organic food.
But the purpose of raising the animals is not for their meat, but for their skin.
The pigs get their first tattoos when they are two months old.
Since the animals naturally grow very quickly, new tattoos are added to their bodies every two to three weeks.
Yang Wei-Ping is one of the tattoo artists involved in the project.
She comes here three times a week to both draw and shade tattoos onto the pigs.
She says the skills required are exactly the same as when tattooing a human.
The pigs are given an anaesthetic injection before the work starts.
However, it often still takes a few workers to keep the animal still while the artist is at work.
The tattoo artists favour pig skin because of its pale colour.
However pigs are as much in danger of sunburn as humans, so farm workers are careful to smother the animals in plenty of sun block.
Keyword animals wacky
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