This so-called contemporary art is not a form, but a philosophy of society.
AI WEIWEILiberty is about our rights to question everything.
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There’s no such thing as “fixed” culture. China is also becoming more global. Its problems are becoming international problems, becoming German problems, becoming American problems.
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We are living in a popular culture where everything is overexposed.
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A clear understanding of such differences will help the rest of the world understand China and all that is happening to the nation.
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I wouldn’t say I’ve become more radical: I was born radical.
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There are many cases and layers of racist behavior in the US – from police treatment to the issues of education and job opportunities. In America, however, such cases are being discussed publically.
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I want people to see their own power.
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China restricts the society’s freedom of speech. The Communist Party imposes these limits because it lacks confidence towards the future and has no ideals.
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I am everywhere and I am nowhere. That’s the beauty of the Internet Age.
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They’ve become part of a conspiracy, collaborators of the crime, which is lying to the general public and trying to hide the kind of criminal acts happening in many cases.
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They very often just try to cope with their own election, their own popularity, solving the problem or selling the ideas to meet their own voters. By doing that, it creates a great imbalance in terms of making deals or treaty or all those things.
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I have people working together, doing different things: architecture, art installation, photography, publishing, and curatorial works and design.
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Democracy, material wealth, and universal education are the soil upon which modernism exists.
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So for too long Americans take liberty as granted. We think we are in the safe hand, the democracy and the liberty, which is not true. And it can be even getting much worse than today.
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China didn’t want to lose the cutting edge of technology. So the idea of having a Sina Weibo was an attempt to compete with Twitter. However, it has no soul – which is freedom of expression. Nevertheless,
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A lot of the time [in the U.S.], I was thinking about how spending time is always questionable or is always the biggest obstacle in my life.
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