Hi Johannes, thanks for this very interesting post in recapping many ideas
brought up in this thread.
I wanted to address the issue of East/West problem. This is something that I
have been researching for a piece I am writing for a contemporary online art
magazine called randian 燃点 (www.randia
Hi Kim, this is a fascinating picture you paint of Wang Du's piece. Was he
making a comment on toxic working environments? That would be a fabulous
subject for a piece.
But given that he was drinking champagne I am guessing that this was not his
intention.
Many suspect that Ai Weiwei is not i
dear all:
thanks Edward for your reply to my impressions on 798, and your very helpful
additional comments and explanations. I am sorry to learn of the
"gentrification" of 798 but perhaps that was, sadly, inevitable, even if one
might look at other scenarios (I am thinking of Metelkova in Lju
Hi Rebecca
I'd like to put forward that if the Chinese authorities seriously
thought Ai Weiwei was any threat, he would be in gaol.
If the authorities are quite comfortable with having Liu Xiaobo (Nobel
Prize for Peace 2010) incarcerated, why not Ai Weiwei?
He does have a sense of creating
I am wondering what this to do with the media art issue?!
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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
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
