I don’t like China. Even today, I still feel I have no emotional relations with this place.
AI WEIWEIIt is to wonder about the world, to understand the nature of people and, most importantly, to be shared with another, old or young, known or unknown.
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To work in architecture you are so much involved with society, with politics, with bureaucrats. It’s a very complicated process to do large projects.
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Imagine one day, the hateful world around you collapses. And it is your attitude, words and actions that put an end to it. Will you be excited?
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Freedom 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.
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Every day I’m learning something new from the practice. It’s very rewarding.
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If there’s the right condition, I always want to express the concept or ideas in a very independent way.
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The museums used to be exhibition halls for government propaganda, and now every city wants to build a museum.
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The rest of the world understands little about China’s changes and the possibilities and crises that come with them.
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In a society like this there is no negotiation, no discussion, except to tell you that power can crush you any time they want — not only you, your whole family and all people like you.
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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 leadership knows that you cannot solve the issues of China’s future with the means of the past. The demographic consequences of the one-child policy, the build-up of the welfare state.
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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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This is a very general understanding of art in China, that being an artist can make you money and turn you into a star.
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When human beings are scared and feel everything is exposed to the government, we will censor ourselves from free thinking. That’s dangerous for human development.
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The misconception of totalitarianism is that freedom can be imprisoned. This is not the case. When you constrain freedom, freedom will take flight and land on a windowsill.
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I never think any place is better than others.
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