This world should be much more open and should be much more free, so the young people would have the chance to exercise the quality of their lives.
AI WEIWEIThis world should be much more open and should be much more free, so the young people would have the chance to exercise the quality of their lives.
AI WEIWEIThe museums used to be exhibition halls for government propaganda, and now every city wants to build a museum.
AI WEIWEIAs a total activity – I practice curating, art, architecture, writing, and publishing all together. I still act as a living creature.
AI WEIWEII loved New York — every inch of it. It was a little bit scary at that time, but still, the excitement was so strong — visually and intellectually. It was like a monster.
AI WEIWEIIf it’s possible, I will have some noodles in the morning and start talking to people, start to think about a few things in my head.
AI WEIWEIOrdinary people should have the same ability to understand art as anybody else. I don’t think art is elite or mysterious. I don’t think anybody can separate art from politics.
AI WEIWEIToday, the general masses in this society are in this political-social condition that really encourages people to become rich and become a star and be unique.
AI WEIWEIEveryone of us is a potential convict.
AI WEIWEII have people working together, doing different things: architecture, art installation, photography, publishing, and curatorial works and design.
AI WEIWEIDemocracy, material wealth, and universal education are the soil upon which modernism exists.
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 WEIWEIYou know about the fantasies related to the classics, but there is no real discussion about today’s life and no discussion of the real conditions – which is really sickening.
AI WEIWEII’m an artist who is always looking for what is possible. I’m always looking to extend the boundaries.
AI WEIWEII spend a lot of time talking to journalists.
AI WEIWEIA nation that has no music and no fairytales is a tragedy.
AI WEIWEII don’t personally feel any association with a kind of culture related to state, or culture related to power, which I think is always disgusting.
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