Destroy or build. Crazy or noncrazy. I’m not nostalgic about the old city. I don’t enjoy it that much.
AI WEIWEIDestroy or build. Crazy or noncrazy. I’m not nostalgic about the old city. I don’t enjoy it that much.
AI WEIWEIThis week, the world gathers in Beijing for the 2008 Olympic games. This is the extraordinary moment China has been dreaming of for 100 years.
AI WEIWEII’m totally independent. I don’t bear any responsibility to any system.
AI WEIWEIThe project or a few ideas which are not finished or if there are possible directions and what will lead into another game. It’s always like setting up some kind of game you can continuously play.
AI WEIWEII think China is laughing about the results of the presidential elections. China, Russia, they all laugh about it.
AI WEIWEIHow to become a really modern society when today we are so – as a human being, we feel so powerful. We have high technology and a superb way of controlling our life. And at the same time, in many ways we are so primitive.
AI WEIWEIMy angst and my insecurity reflect the state’s angst and insecurity. The state is scared too.
AI WEIWEII don’t belong to a working system. They only select people if you belong to one so you can be controlled.
AI WEIWEICreativity is the power to act.
AI WEIWEIIf people are being abused or even killed during an arrest, this is highly disturbing.
AI WEIWEIWe are living in a popular culture where everything is overexposed.
AI WEIWEII don’t like China. Even today, I still feel I have no emotional relations with this place.
AI WEIWEII never really read Allen Ginsberg poetry, even though I have a book he gave me.
AI WEIWEIIf a nation cannot face its past, it has no future.
AI WEIWEII think by shattering it we can create a new form, a new way to look at what is valuable – how we decide what is valuable.
AI WEIWEIAt the moment about 350,000 students return to China from abroad each year – 350,000 young and educated people. I know about them because they know me and often ask me in the street if they can take a selfie with me.
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