Montag, 20. Juni 2011

UNPUBLISHED INTERVIEW WITH CHINESE ARTIST AI WEIWEI.

The situation is becoming more and more difficult for critically thinking and acting artists in China, right?


They have been putting more and more people into prison recently, just because they posted something on Twitter or on their blogs. The phone gets cancelled, they are getting observed, their flats get searched. The police breaks into your house in the middle of the night, they search the house – and then they create evidence against you for the courts. They sentence innocent people to ten years in jail. The most recent one was Liu Xianbin

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In that sense it is interesting that the exhibition takes place here – of all places! Because: the current situation in China is crazy. Had I to create a name for these times, I’d say it is the age of craziness.

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