The United States is a melting pot. Like John F. Kennedy said, it’s a nation of immigrants. But Donald Trump wants to build a fence that clearly makes the statement: “You and I are divided.
AI WEIWEIThe United States is a melting pot. Like John F. Kennedy said, it’s a nation of immigrants. But Donald Trump wants to build a fence that clearly makes the statement: “You and I are divided.
AI WEIWEII always want people to be confused, to be shocked or realize something later.
AI WEIWEIBehind every political deal in this country, the first casualties are always the ordinary people, who are barely treated as human.
AI WEIWEIDestroy or build. Crazy or noncrazy. I’m not nostalgic about the old city. I don’t enjoy it that much.
AI WEIWEII wouldn’t say I’ve become more radical: I was born radical.
AI WEIWEIIn China, we don’t have any contemporary art museums. Until a few years ago, we didn’t even have a gallery.
AI WEIWEII think it’s more important to show your work to the public.
AI WEIWEIThis so-called contemporary art is not a form, but a philosophy of society.
AI WEIWEII have people working together, doing different things: architecture, art installation, photography, publishing, and curatorial works and design.
AI WEIWEIIf human rights are supposed to have any meaning, then they have to be discussed openly.
AI WEIWEII deal with students every day – from China, Germany, the United States, Hong Kong and Taiwan. And I’ve noticed that the Chinese students are the least trained in having a sense of aesthetics.
AI WEIWEIYou need a purpose to express yourself, but that expression is its own purpose.
AI WEIWEIIt’s just a way you have to set up some kind of activities to follow your instincts or your curiosities.
AI WEIWEIMaybe being powerful means to be fragile.
AI WEIWEIThey see how dramatic U.S. has to be put this kind of shame on its own – cannot handle the situation. Or show such a difficulty with this liberal ideas. Men or women created equal. And to defend those very essential ideas.
AI WEIWEIThat’s why I always question this sense. The feeling of home really requires a lot of trust. It requires you to identify with it, which I always find myself very contradictory to.
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