Dissident artist Ai Weiwei is criticizing the Chinese government for removing his take on Korean pop sensation Psy's Gangnam Style video from Chinese websites.<br/> <br />The video shows Ai and staff from his company performing Psy's infamous horse dance in his Beijing studio.<br/> <br />Ai has named the video Grass Mud Horse, a species of alpaca, which in Mandarin is phonetically very similar to a strong curse word.<br/> <br />The profanity-sounding name has become a symbol of the online community's defiance of Internet censors which remove profanity and other content considered sensitive.<br/> <br />SOUNDBITE: Ai Weiwei, artist, saying (English):<br/> <br />"We only filmed for a bit over ten minutes, but we used a whole day to edit, and eventually put it online at midnight. After we had uploaded it, a few hours later, a few hours after we had started work, we found that a lot of people, tens of thousands, had already watched it. Now in China it has already been totally removed, deleted entirely, and you can't see it in China."<br/> <br />The 55-year-old is an internationally renowned artist and China's most high-profile dissident, regularly clashing with the country's communist authorities.
