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Ai Weiwei – Sunflower Seeds | Artist Interview | Tate
Artist Ai Weiwei’s Sunflower Seeds is made up of millions of small works, each apparently identical, but actually unique. However realistic they may seem, these life-sized sunflower seed husks are in fact intricately hand-crafted in porcelain.
Each seed has been individually sculpted and painted by specialists working in small-scale workshops in the Chinese city of Jingdezhen. Far from being industrially produced, they are the effort of hundreds of skilled hands. Poured into the interior of the Turbine Hall’s vast industrial space, the 100 million seeds form a seemingly infinite landscape.
Porcelain is almost synonymous with China and, to make this work, Ai Weiwei has manipulated traditional methods of crafting what has historically been one of China’s most prized exports. Sunflower Seed...
published: 14 Oct 2010
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The Case for Ai Weiwei | The Art Assignment | PBS Digital Studios
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published: 06 Oct 2016
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Art on 60 Minutes: Ai Weiwei
Ai Weiwei's provocative art has gotten him driven out of China. But in order to be relevant, he told 60 Minutes in 2017, art must be political
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published: 12 May 2019
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Exiled Chinese artist Ai Weiwei: 'Censorship in West exactly the same as Mao's China'
Political censorship in the West today is "exactly the same" as it was in China under its ruthless communist leader Mao Zedong, exiled artist Ai Weiwei has told Sky News.
The 66-year-old dissident told Sky News' Sunday Morning with Trevor Phillips that "society becomes so timid, to really avoid any kind of questioning or argument.
"Today I see so many people by giving their basic opinions, they get fired, they get censored. This has become very common."
Read more: https://news.sky.com/story/exiled-chinese-artist-ai-weiwei-censorship-in-the-west-is-exactly-the-same-as-maos-china-13063751
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published: 04 Feb 2024
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Ai Weiwei detained. Here is his TED film
http://www.ted.com The news that Chinese artist Ai Weiwei has been detained by authorities has prompted significant concern here at TED-HQ. We had shown a film of him at last month's conference, an unexpected and courageous statement about his treatment by the government, social change, the power of the web, and his hope for the future of China. The film, which was shown as Ai Weiwei himself watched live over the web in the middle of the night, prompted a huge standing ovation from the TED audience.
Read the news story: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-pacific-12954811
TED is a non-partisan, nonpolitical organization and we understand the Chinese authorities concern at anything which might provoke social unrest. But for anyone who believes in the power of ideas, of human imagi...
published: 04 Apr 2011
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Ai Weiwei: Visual artist | Full Address and Q&A | Oxford Union
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published: 21 Oct 2022
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Ai Weiwei Interview: Life is in Danger Every Day
In this powerful interview Ai Weiwei talks about his art, his life and his reasons for still fighting the Chinese system. 'I don't believe people who say they are not scared, even you put them in prison, he says.
Ai Weiwei talks about his father, how he was put into prison and how he is still convinced that fighting the Chinese system is necessary. We hear how Ai Weiwei works with Chinese cultural tradition in his art and his thoughts about the future of China.
Interview by Christian Lund at the Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, December 2010.
Filmed by Marie Friis Forchhammer.
Edited by Martin Kogi.
Produced by Martin Kogi and Christian Lund
Copyright: Louisiana Channel, Louisiana Museum of Modern Art.
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published: 22 Dec 2012
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Artist smashes $1 million Ai Weiwei vase
A US artist faces a criminal charge after police say he smashed a one million dollar vase by Chinese dissident artist Ai Weiwei at a Miami art museum.
A US artist faces a criminal charge after police say he smashed a $1 million US dollar vase by Chinese dissident artist Ai Weiwei at Miami's new art museum to protest what he called its favoritism for international rather than local art.
Amateur video shows Mr Caminero casually picking up the vase, half painted in green, and dropping it on the floor as a voice off camera can be heard saying "don't touch."
The 51 year-old artist was charged with criminal mischief over one-thousand US dollars, which is a felony, after Sunday's incident.
"All of us here the museum are horrified by this criminal act. This is vandalism. We're very upset," sa...
published: 19 Feb 2014
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Ai Weiwei Interview: Our Judgement is Crippled
“Modern society is a ruin, in our emotions and our judgement.” On the occasion of ‘The Rest’ (2019), a documentary featuring his encounters with refugees, Ai Weiwei – one of the most influential artists of our time – speaks open-heartedly about the global refugee crisis, which calls for individual action: “There is so much we can do – it is our acts which define us as unique individuals.”
For the film ‘Human Flow’ (2017), which talks about the global refugee condition on a grand scale, Weiwei visited 40 different camps spread out across 20 nations: “That gave me a first-hand knowledge because I interviewed over 600 people.” Weiwei – who himself was a refugee as a child due to his father’s exilement in 1957 – was curious to see how the “modern, civilized world” dealt with the refugee situ...
published: 22 Mar 2019
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Ai Weiwei: Sharing His and His Father’s Stories & The Problems with Communist China | The Daily Show
Ai Weiwei discusses how writing his memoir helped him to better understand his father as well as grapple with his feelings about China and talks about the Chinese government’s treatment of the Uyghurs. #DailyShow #TrevorNoah #AiWeiwei
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published: 17 Nov 2021
14:42
Ai Weiwei – Sunflower Seeds | Artist Interview | Tate
Artist Ai Weiwei’s Sunflower Seeds is made up of millions of small works, each apparently identical, but actually unique. However realistic they may seem, these...
Artist Ai Weiwei’s Sunflower Seeds is made up of millions of small works, each apparently identical, but actually unique. However realistic they may seem, these life-sized sunflower seed husks are in fact intricately hand-crafted in porcelain.
Each seed has been individually sculpted and painted by specialists working in small-scale workshops in the Chinese city of Jingdezhen. Far from being industrially produced, they are the effort of hundreds of skilled hands. Poured into the interior of the Turbine Hall’s vast industrial space, the 100 million seeds form a seemingly infinite landscape.
Porcelain is almost synonymous with China and, to make this work, Ai Weiwei has manipulated traditional methods of crafting what has historically been one of China’s most prized exports. Sunflower Seeds invites us to look more closely at the ‘Made in China’ phenomenon and the geo-politics of cultural and economic exchange today.
Sunflower Seeds was on display at Tate Modern from 12 October 2010 – 2 May 2011.
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Artist Ai Weiwei’s Sunflower Seeds is made up of millions of small works, each apparently identical, but actually unique. However realistic they may seem, these life-sized sunflower seed husks are in fact intricately hand-crafted in porcelain.
Each seed has been individually sculpted and painted by specialists working in small-scale workshops in the Chinese city of Jingdezhen. Far from being industrially produced, they are the effort of hundreds of skilled hands. Poured into the interior of the Turbine Hall’s vast industrial space, the 100 million seeds form a seemingly infinite landscape.
Porcelain is almost synonymous with China and, to make this work, Ai Weiwei has manipulated traditional methods of crafting what has historically been one of China’s most prized exports. Sunflower Seeds invites us to look more closely at the ‘Made in China’ phenomenon and the geo-politics of cultural and economic exchange today.
Sunflower Seeds was on display at Tate Modern from 12 October 2010 – 2 May 2011.
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- published: 14 Oct 2010
- views: 837245
5:54
The Case for Ai Weiwei | The Art Assignment | PBS Digital Studios
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- published: 06 Oct 2016
- views: 409882
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Art on 60 Minutes: Ai Weiwei
Ai Weiwei's provocative art has gotten him driven out of China. But in order to be relevant, he told 60 Minutes in 2017, art must be political
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- published: 12 May 2019
- views: 37276
8:56
Exiled Chinese artist Ai Weiwei: 'Censorship in West exactly the same as Mao's China'
Political censorship in the West today is "exactly the same" as it was in China under its ruthless communist leader Mao Zedong, exiled artist Ai Weiwei has told...
Political censorship in the West today is "exactly the same" as it was in China under its ruthless communist leader Mao Zedong, exiled artist Ai Weiwei has told Sky News.
The 66-year-old dissident told Sky News' Sunday Morning with Trevor Phillips that "society becomes so timid, to really avoid any kind of questioning or argument.
"Today I see so many people by giving their basic opinions, they get fired, they get censored. This has become very common."
Read more: https://news.sky.com/story/exiled-chinese-artist-ai-weiwei-censorship-in-the-west-is-exactly-the-same-as-maos-china-13063751
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Political censorship in the West today is "exactly the same" as it was in China under its ruthless communist leader Mao Zedong, exiled artist Ai Weiwei has told Sky News.
The 66-year-old dissident told Sky News' Sunday Morning with Trevor Phillips that "society becomes so timid, to really avoid any kind of questioning or argument.
"Today I see so many people by giving their basic opinions, they get fired, they get censored. This has become very common."
Read more: https://news.sky.com/story/exiled-chinese-artist-ai-weiwei-censorship-in-the-west-is-exactly-the-same-as-maos-china-13063751
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- published: 04 Feb 2024
- views: 215843
11:38
Ai Weiwei detained. Here is his TED film
http://www.ted.com The news that Chinese artist Ai Weiwei has been detained by authorities has prompted significant concern here at TED-HQ. We had shown a fil...
http://www.ted.com The news that Chinese artist Ai Weiwei has been detained by authorities has prompted significant concern here at TED-HQ. We had shown a film of him at last month's conference, an unexpected and courageous statement about his treatment by the government, social change, the power of the web, and his hope for the future of China. The film, which was shown as Ai Weiwei himself watched live over the web in the middle of the night, prompted a huge standing ovation from the TED audience.
Read the news story: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-pacific-12954811
TED is a non-partisan, nonpolitical organization and we understand the Chinese authorities concern at anything which might provoke social unrest. But for anyone who believes in the power of ideas, of human imagination, it is heartbreaking to see one of the world's great artists shackled in this way. We will be tracking developments carefully. Here is the film.
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http://www.ted.com The news that Chinese artist Ai Weiwei has been detained by authorities has prompted significant concern here at TED-HQ. We had shown a film of him at last month's conference, an unexpected and courageous statement about his treatment by the government, social change, the power of the web, and his hope for the future of China. The film, which was shown as Ai Weiwei himself watched live over the web in the middle of the night, prompted a huge standing ovation from the TED audience.
Read the news story: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-pacific-12954811
TED is a non-partisan, nonpolitical organization and we understand the Chinese authorities concern at anything which might provoke social unrest. But for anyone who believes in the power of ideas, of human imagination, it is heartbreaking to see one of the world's great artists shackled in this way. We will be tracking developments carefully. Here is the film.
- published: 04 Apr 2011
- views: 287482
50:25
Ai Weiwei: Visual artist | Full Address and Q&A | Oxford Union
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- published: 21 Oct 2022
- views: 9380
31:09
Ai Weiwei Interview: Life is in Danger Every Day
In this powerful interview Ai Weiwei talks about his art, his life and his reasons for still fighting the Chinese system. 'I don't believe people who say they a...
In this powerful interview Ai Weiwei talks about his art, his life and his reasons for still fighting the Chinese system. 'I don't believe people who say they are not scared, even you put them in prison, he says.
Ai Weiwei talks about his father, how he was put into prison and how he is still convinced that fighting the Chinese system is necessary. We hear how Ai Weiwei works with Chinese cultural tradition in his art and his thoughts about the future of China.
Interview by Christian Lund at the Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, December 2010.
Filmed by Marie Friis Forchhammer.
Edited by Martin Kogi.
Produced by Martin Kogi and Christian Lund
Copyright: Louisiana Channel, Louisiana Museum of Modern Art.
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In this powerful interview Ai Weiwei talks about his art, his life and his reasons for still fighting the Chinese system. 'I don't believe people who say they are not scared, even you put them in prison, he says.
Ai Weiwei talks about his father, how he was put into prison and how he is still convinced that fighting the Chinese system is necessary. We hear how Ai Weiwei works with Chinese cultural tradition in his art and his thoughts about the future of China.
Interview by Christian Lund at the Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, December 2010.
Filmed by Marie Friis Forchhammer.
Edited by Martin Kogi.
Produced by Martin Kogi and Christian Lund
Copyright: Louisiana Channel, Louisiana Museum of Modern Art.
Meet more artists at www.channel.louisiana.dk
Louisiana Channel is a non-profit video channel for the Internet launched by the Louisiana Museum of Modern Art in November 2012. Each week Louisiana Channel will publish videos about and with artists in visual art, literature, architcture, design etc.
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- published: 22 Dec 2012
- views: 152084
1:04
Artist smashes $1 million Ai Weiwei vase
A US artist faces a criminal charge after police say he smashed a one million dollar vase by Chinese dissident artist Ai Weiwei at a Miami art museum.
A US art...
A US artist faces a criminal charge after police say he smashed a one million dollar vase by Chinese dissident artist Ai Weiwei at a Miami art museum.
A US artist faces a criminal charge after police say he smashed a $1 million US dollar vase by Chinese dissident artist Ai Weiwei at Miami's new art museum to protest what he called its favoritism for international rather than local art.
Amateur video shows Mr Caminero casually picking up the vase, half painted in green, and dropping it on the floor as a voice off camera can be heard saying "don't touch."
The 51 year-old artist was charged with criminal mischief over one-thousand US dollars, which is a felony, after Sunday's incident.
"All of us here the museum are horrified by this criminal act. This is vandalism. We're very upset," said the museum spokeswoman, Leann Standish.
However, she added that the museum welcomed the "interesting dialogue" opened in response to Mr Caminero's actions.
"The museum actually exists to foster a dialogue. We want that dialogue to be productive and not destructive," she said.
Mr Caminero told officers he broke the vase to protest the museum's lack of local artist displays, according to the Miami Police Department arrest affidavit.
Mr Caminero apologized to Mr Ai in a phone interview to Channel 4.
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A US artist faces a criminal charge after police say he smashed a one million dollar vase by Chinese dissident artist Ai Weiwei at a Miami art museum.
A US artist faces a criminal charge after police say he smashed a $1 million US dollar vase by Chinese dissident artist Ai Weiwei at Miami's new art museum to protest what he called its favoritism for international rather than local art.
Amateur video shows Mr Caminero casually picking up the vase, half painted in green, and dropping it on the floor as a voice off camera can be heard saying "don't touch."
The 51 year-old artist was charged with criminal mischief over one-thousand US dollars, which is a felony, after Sunday's incident.
"All of us here the museum are horrified by this criminal act. This is vandalism. We're very upset," said the museum spokeswoman, Leann Standish.
However, she added that the museum welcomed the "interesting dialogue" opened in response to Mr Caminero's actions.
"The museum actually exists to foster a dialogue. We want that dialogue to be productive and not destructive," she said.
Mr Caminero told officers he broke the vase to protest the museum's lack of local artist displays, according to the Miami Police Department arrest affidavit.
Mr Caminero apologized to Mr Ai in a phone interview to Channel 4.
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Ai Weiwei Interview: Our Judgement is Crippled
“Modern society is a ruin, in our emotions and our judgement.” On the occasion of ‘The Rest’ (2019), a documentary featuring his encounters with refugees, Ai We...
“Modern society is a ruin, in our emotions and our judgement.” On the occasion of ‘The Rest’ (2019), a documentary featuring his encounters with refugees, Ai Weiwei – one of the most influential artists of our time – speaks open-heartedly about the global refugee crisis, which calls for individual action: “There is so much we can do – it is our acts which define us as unique individuals.”
For the film ‘Human Flow’ (2017), which talks about the global refugee condition on a grand scale, Weiwei visited 40 different camps spread out across 20 nations: “That gave me a first-hand knowledge because I interviewed over 600 people.” Weiwei – who himself was a refugee as a child due to his father’s exilement in 1957 – was curious to see how the “modern, civilized world” dealt with the refugee situation, and soon realized that the refugees were basically being “pushed away by Europe” without thought for human rights or human dignity. Europe’s focus was simply on depositing the refugees somewhere else, making the refugee crisis just as much about the questionable European condition: “Is it possible to maintain this kind of state? To say: We are human but we are different. We have empathy but not toward certain people?” No matter where in the world the refugees are from, Weiwei continues, they have all had to leave behind their home and dreams in order to find a peaceful place to build a future. This is also what he examines in the film ‘The Rest’ (2019), which focuses on the individual refugees before and after they end up living in political limbo in Europe, in an overloaded and prejudiced system: “A few refugees can survive this game, but most of them become human waste.”
Ai Weiwei considers modern society a wreck: “It purposely separates individuals from reality.” Human rights, he continues, is based on the efforts of individuals: “There is no such thing as human rights. So every generation has to redefine what human rights are in our time.” This essential question, Weiwei feels, hasn’t been asked for far too long. We must act, for if we simply accept the corruption and goings-on “we become part of the crime.”
Ai Weiwei (b. 1957) is a Chinese artist and filmmaker. Weiwei has been openly critical of the Chinese Government’s stance on democracy and human rights. His activity as a dissident has gone hand in hand with his artistic career, and he has continued to produce work testifying to his political beliefs. Weiwei has exhibited widely, major solo exhibitions including Tate Modern in London, MoMA in New York, Martin-Gropius-Bau in Berlin, Taipei Fine Arts Museum in Taiwan and Marciano Art Foundation in Los Angeles. Among his most noteworthy work is ‘Still Life’ (1993-2000), ‘Dropping a Han Dynasty Urn’ (1995), ‘Study of Perspective Tiananmen Square’ (1995), ‘Forever Bicycles’ (2003), ‘Fountain of Light’ (2007), ‘Straight’ (2008-12), ‘Sunflower Seeds’ (2010), ‘S.A.C.R.E.D.’ (2012) and ‘Stools’ (2013). In 2017 his epic film journey ‘Human Flow’ participated in the 74th Venice International Film Festival and was followed up two years later by ‘The Rest’ (2019). Architectural collaborations include the 2012 Serpentine Pavilion and the 2008 Beijing Olympic Stadium with Herzog and de Meuron. Weiwei is the recipient of numerous awards and honors including the Václav Havel Prize for Creative Dissent by the Human Rights Foundation (2012) and the Ambassador of Conscience Award by Amnesty International (2015). Having lived abroad for several years, he currently resides and works in Beijing. For more see: http://www.aiweiwei.com/
Ai Weiwei was interviewed by Christian Lund at the Louisiana Museum of Modern art in Humlebæk, Denmark in March 2019.
In the video, stills are shown from ‘Human Flow’ (2017) and ‘The Rest’ (2019) by Ai Weiwei. Courtesy of the artist.
Camera: Kasper Bech Dyg and Roxanne Bagheshirin Lærkesen
Produced by: Christian Lund
Edited by: Roxanne Bagheshirin Lærkesen
Colourgrading: Will J. Løkken
Copyright: Louisiana Channel, Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, 2019
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“Modern society is a ruin, in our emotions and our judgement.” On the occasion of ‘The Rest’ (2019), a documentary featuring his encounters with refugees, Ai Weiwei – one of the most influential artists of our time – speaks open-heartedly about the global refugee crisis, which calls for individual action: “There is so much we can do – it is our acts which define us as unique individuals.”
For the film ‘Human Flow’ (2017), which talks about the global refugee condition on a grand scale, Weiwei visited 40 different camps spread out across 20 nations: “That gave me a first-hand knowledge because I interviewed over 600 people.” Weiwei – who himself was a refugee as a child due to his father’s exilement in 1957 – was curious to see how the “modern, civilized world” dealt with the refugee situation, and soon realized that the refugees were basically being “pushed away by Europe” without thought for human rights or human dignity. Europe’s focus was simply on depositing the refugees somewhere else, making the refugee crisis just as much about the questionable European condition: “Is it possible to maintain this kind of state? To say: We are human but we are different. We have empathy but not toward certain people?” No matter where in the world the refugees are from, Weiwei continues, they have all had to leave behind their home and dreams in order to find a peaceful place to build a future. This is also what he examines in the film ‘The Rest’ (2019), which focuses on the individual refugees before and after they end up living in political limbo in Europe, in an overloaded and prejudiced system: “A few refugees can survive this game, but most of them become human waste.”
Ai Weiwei considers modern society a wreck: “It purposely separates individuals from reality.” Human rights, he continues, is based on the efforts of individuals: “There is no such thing as human rights. So every generation has to redefine what human rights are in our time.” This essential question, Weiwei feels, hasn’t been asked for far too long. We must act, for if we simply accept the corruption and goings-on “we become part of the crime.”
Ai Weiwei (b. 1957) is a Chinese artist and filmmaker. Weiwei has been openly critical of the Chinese Government’s stance on democracy and human rights. His activity as a dissident has gone hand in hand with his artistic career, and he has continued to produce work testifying to his political beliefs. Weiwei has exhibited widely, major solo exhibitions including Tate Modern in London, MoMA in New York, Martin-Gropius-Bau in Berlin, Taipei Fine Arts Museum in Taiwan and Marciano Art Foundation in Los Angeles. Among his most noteworthy work is ‘Still Life’ (1993-2000), ‘Dropping a Han Dynasty Urn’ (1995), ‘Study of Perspective Tiananmen Square’ (1995), ‘Forever Bicycles’ (2003), ‘Fountain of Light’ (2007), ‘Straight’ (2008-12), ‘Sunflower Seeds’ (2010), ‘S.A.C.R.E.D.’ (2012) and ‘Stools’ (2013). In 2017 his epic film journey ‘Human Flow’ participated in the 74th Venice International Film Festival and was followed up two years later by ‘The Rest’ (2019). Architectural collaborations include the 2012 Serpentine Pavilion and the 2008 Beijing Olympic Stadium with Herzog and de Meuron. Weiwei is the recipient of numerous awards and honors including the Václav Havel Prize for Creative Dissent by the Human Rights Foundation (2012) and the Ambassador of Conscience Award by Amnesty International (2015). Having lived abroad for several years, he currently resides and works in Beijing. For more see: http://www.aiweiwei.com/
Ai Weiwei was interviewed by Christian Lund at the Louisiana Museum of Modern art in Humlebæk, Denmark in March 2019.
In the video, stills are shown from ‘Human Flow’ (2017) and ‘The Rest’ (2019) by Ai Weiwei. Courtesy of the artist.
Camera: Kasper Bech Dyg and Roxanne Bagheshirin Lærkesen
Produced by: Christian Lund
Edited by: Roxanne Bagheshirin Lærkesen
Colourgrading: Will J. Løkken
Copyright: Louisiana Channel, Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, 2019
Supported by Nordea fonden
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- published: 22 Mar 2019
- views: 27494
10:31
Ai Weiwei: Sharing His and His Father’s Stories & The Problems with Communist China | The Daily Show
Ai Weiwei discusses how writing his memoir helped him to better understand his father as well as grapple with his feelings about China and talks about the Chine...
Ai Weiwei discusses how writing his memoir helped him to better understand his father as well as grapple with his feelings about China and talks about the Chinese government’s treatment of the Uyghurs. #DailyShow #TrevorNoah #AiWeiwei
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- published: 17 Nov 2021
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