I don’t think there is a distinct change, because in the West I’m not a person who can serve his purpose.
AI WEIWEII don’t think there is a distinct change, because in the West I’m not a person who can serve his purpose.
AI WEIWEIA nation like China has become one of the biggest production fields for exporting cheap labor, which also re-questions our history and past, re-questions human desire, and the human illusions of the past.
AI WEIWEITo work in architecture you are so much involved with society, with politics, with bureaucrats. It’s a very complicated process to do large projects.
AI WEIWEIIf there is no freedom of expression, then the beauty of life is lost. Participation in a society is not an artistic choice, it’s a human need.
AI WEIWEIIn my case, I was stuck there for quite a while. New York is large enough to be a very abstract city, so nobody cares.
AI WEIWEII always want people to be confused, to be shocked or realize something later.
AI WEIWEIWe’re different, and you’re dangerous.” That kind of thinking stops human, civilized evolution. It’s dangerous to create that kind of tension.
AI WEIWEIWe are not on – even just a step away from the most brutal and primitive crudity. To be very crude on those issues, which is always challenges and we always have to look at the situation like a mirror, to draw some understanding.
AI WEIWEIThis so-called fame or being better off doesn’t really attract me at all.
AI WEIWEIIn this kind of dictatorship, in this kind of totalitarian society, it is easy to make deals that you cannot make in a democratic society.
AI WEIWEIMaybe being powerful means to be fragile.
AI WEIWEIThe Internet has established a public sphere and developed a pressure which the government can no longer ignore.
AI WEIWEIFreedom 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.
AI WEIWEIOf course, people will call you an old artist or young artist, which is just a character of you.
AI WEIWEIA clear understanding of such differences will help the rest of the world understand China and all that is happening to the nation.
AI WEIWEINationality and borders are barriers to our intelligence, to our imagination and to all kinds of possibilities.
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