I am very much interested in the so-called useless object. I mean, it takes perfect craftsmanship, beautiful material carefully measured and crafted, but at the same time it’s really useless.
AI WEIWEII’m doing quite a few things now. In one day, I will go to Kassel, Germany, for a documentary project I’ve been preparing for half a year.
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I think it’s quite narrow-minded. There wasn’t much encouragement or opportunities for any artist – not just Chinese artists.
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It’s very essential values that we all have to protect. But in Chinese society, people are giving up on protecting these values.
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The Internet has established a public sphere and developed a pressure which the government can no longer ignore.
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The relationship between the Chinese government and me is like a Cold War.
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A nation that has no music and no fairytales is a tragedy.
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That’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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I want people to see their own power.
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I’m doing quite a few things now. In one day, I will go to Kassel, Germany, for a documentary project I’ve been preparing for half a year.
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[Museums] all belongs to the cultural department, which is the biggest cultural department in the world.
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Self-censorship is insulting to the self. Timidity is a hopeless way forward.
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For years, I refused to go to any openings, not even my own.
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Society becomes very destructive.
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We grew up in a very material-lacking socialist society, but today China is a capitalist society. It’s very materialistic. It’s full of desire and luxury goods.
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Nationality and borders are barriers to our intelligence, to our imagination and to all kinds of possibilities.
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My typical day is I wake up and appreciate that I can still wake up.
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