Chang's rock round Britain.

You may remember He Yun Chang. One of China's leading performance artists, he spurns paint, pens and paper for a more physical ( not to say painful-looking ( form of self-expression.

Back in March, in an Arts Council-funded performance at Central Square, Newcastle, he spent 24 hours walking in a circle while attached by a line leading from the ceiling to his collar bone ( demonstrating an extreme form of body piercing.

In an interview with a Journal reporter he said he was demonstrating the futility of the human experience. The bizarre attachment, he said, didn't hurt at all.

Significantly, he added: "I like Newcastle. It is a wonderful place and the people are very nice."

On Sunday, September 24, he is due back in the region to embark on his latest project, Touring Round Great Britain With A Rock.

It is organised by Newcastle arts producers amino in conjunction with Spacex, a gallery in Exeter.

According to amino, this will be He Yun Chang's most challenging and ambitious performance to date and is "set to become a landmark project in the history of durational performance art".

They describe it thus: "Starting from Rock, in Northumberland, he will walk to the nearby coast at Boulmer where he will select a rock and set off to carry it around the island of Great Britain in a counter clockwise direction, eventually to return the rock to the precise location from where it was taken.

"The route is a rough circumnavigation of Great Britain, a distance of over 2,000 miles, and will take around 110 days."

He is due to begin his walk at 11am and choose the rock at 1.30pm.

For more details and a full itinerary, log on to amino.org.uk.