Re: [-empyre-] without fear or/of favor

2010-11-17 Thread Rebecca Catching
Hi Johannes, thanks a lot for this post. I loved your comment re: them only interviewing English speaking curators. If they had interviewed some Chinese people they might have had a more nuanced picture. There are actually a lot of artists in China who are quite against him and think of him as

[-empyre-] without fear or/of favor

2010-11-17 Thread Johannes Birringer
dear all last night BBC 1 showed a substantial one hour documentary film on Ai WeiWei, i presume because of the current exhibition or long -durational installation of "Sunflower Seeds" at London's Tate Modern. the film focussed -- in hushed tones and with western curators and gallery owners