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Ai Weiwei
Age: 67
Born: 1957
Born: May 18
Architect
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Human Rights Activist
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Wei-wei Ai
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New York has given me a lot, but I still don't consider it home.
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I think art is a very important weapon to achieve human freedom
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I grew up in a desert, which has no kind of imagination.
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Otherwise, I think the building can be bigger, larger, and the city can be much more crazy. The problem is the government structure is so deadly stupid, not really solving problems but creating a lot of problems itself every day.
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Beijing is constructing a 100,000 m2 modern art museum, yet it will not feature any of my work.
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China partially wants to become part of the world. By hosting the Olympics and the Expo, they made a big effort to tell people: Look, we are the same. They want to be accepted by the international community.
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China hasn't only existed for one day. Now, the whole nation has become richer and it's become a problem. The problem is universal. The factor is big. Everybody has to rethink the balance of the world and the whole landscape.
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Art needs to stand for something.
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I'm totally independent. I don't bear any responsibility to any system.
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Whenever there is injustice, there is tension. But in China it is very hard to release your anger unless you burn yourself or you jump from a bridge. In a society where there is no freedom of the press, it is difficult for victims to be noticed.
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China is at a different stage of development, human rights are violated here much more often. And still, we see improvements even here.
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Chinese government is very clearly losing power in every aspect, but trying to fix up all the problems or potential problems.
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Art is always about overcoming obstacles between the inner condition and the skill for expression.
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Life is art. Art is life. I never separate it. I don’t feel that much anger. I equally have a lot of joy.
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I saw [Allen Ginsberg] more as an old man who liked poetry and who had a lot of physical and emotional problems. We liked our time together.
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Freedom of expression is a very essential condition for me to make any art. Also, it is an essential value for my life. I have to protect this right and also to fight for the possibility.
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Being an artist is more of a mindset, a way of seeing things it is no longer so much about producing something.
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I think Donald Trump should cool down a little bit. To pay more attention to the history. To really understand what U.S.'s value is about. I think, as a president, those things you always have to ask.
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Choices after waking up: To be true or to lie? To take action or be brainwashed? To be free or be jailed?
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Cities really are mental conditions. Beijing is a nightmare. A constant nightmare.
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