that her comment about Kosovo got her kicked off the ticket at a Serbian festival, actually. Although this has been denied by the festival organizers. http://www.pitchforkmedia.com/article/news/49065-bjork-show-cut-over-kosovo-talk-untrue-says-fest

She's a bit of an Icelandic Elton John in her erratic behaviour. She's attacked paparazzi a couple times in the past.

To most of the Chinese people I know here in Guangdong, Bjork's comments are, if I may, inscrutable, as if somebody who had been behaving as a friend at dinner suddenly began insulting her hosts. Even to me, a Brit/American, the American and Western European tradition of "say the big bad word" protesting seems both adolescent and middle-aged at the same time, like an old hippie. Perhaps this is because I am seeing it transplanted into China where people who protest do not have this tradition.

It seems, then, that if Western artists and performers are going to try to communicate their political ideas to Chinese audiences, they need to learn how to communicate in a Chinese cultural context. Bjork would have accomplished more by learning how to produce the effect she wanted within Chinese cultural semiotics (using tradition Tibetan music in her show? hiring Tibetan musicians to perform with her? learning what the offical "no-say" words are?) rather than assuming her very Western speech is perfectly transparant outside the West.