The Internet has established a public sphere and developed a pressure which the government can no longer ignore.
AI WEIWEIBehind every political deal in this country, the first casualties are always the ordinary people, who are barely treated as human.
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The deadly weapon against totalitarian society is openness – doing everything very openly on the Internet, letting people know every detail, any little development. Once it is out there, everybody can make their own judgement.
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Life is never guaranteed to be safe, so we better use it while we are still in good condition.
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Art should live in the heart of the people. Ordinary people should have the same ability to understand art as anybody else. I don’t think art is elite or mysterious.
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The [China] government has improved in the last years. Of course, the structure is still the same; there’s still a one-party system and strong censorship.
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Everything is art. Everything is politics.
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The practice of photography is no longer a means for recording reality. Instead, it has become reality itself
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I was an illegal alien for many, many years. I couldn’t move. If I moved I could not even get a visa back.
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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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The world is not changing if you don’t shoulder the burden of responsibility.
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Even if there have been setbacks during these past years, China is changing. China’s society is opening.
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Once you’ve tasted freedom, it stays in your heart and no one can take it. Then, you can be more powerful than a whole country.
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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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Selling high or low doesn’t mean anything. It has to do purely with the market.
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Say what you say plainly, and then take responsibility for it.
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Just look at the statistics: Each university has tens of thousands of applications for students who want to be in art school, but they can only accept a few hundred.
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