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We are living in a popular culture where everything is overexposed.

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Ai Weiwei
Age: 67
Born: 1957
Born: May 18
Architect
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Contemporary Artist
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Human Rights Activist
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Peking
Wei-wei Ai
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To the media, I have become a symbolic figure, critical of China. According to the government, I am a dangerous threat.
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The American experience influenced my understanding of individuality, basic human rights, freedom of expression and the rights and responsibilities of citizens.
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I see the Beijing National Stadium as an architectural project. I accepted Herzog and De Meuron's invitation to collaborate on the design, and our proposal won the competition. From beginning to end, I stayed with the project. I am committed to fostering relationships between a city and its architecture.
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The so-called culture nowadays is only a fake one with a superficial front. It is an empty lie.
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China has not established the rule of law and if there is a power above the law there is no social justice. Everybody can be subjected to harm. I'm just a citizen: my life is equal in value to any other. But I'm thankful that when I lost my freedom so many people shared feelings and put such touching effort into helping me.
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I'm always interested in people who are not orientated in art circles to become part of it.
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Liberty is about our rights to question everything.
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No state or society can claim to have established human rights once and for all.
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Without freedom of speech, there is no modern world, just a barbaric one.
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[Cultural department] understand nothing but bureaucratic daily affairs. They don't care about culture.
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Any design, any city, any kind of craziness or tragedy, it all comes from a long time of preparation.
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Growing up, my family was an enemy of the state. I have experienced more disappointment than joy, much more sad stories or desperate conditions.
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In the end, I think, the state's rigidity is a function of its own insecurity, its indecisiveness.
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