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With alan yentob, weiwei ai, ethan cohen, joan lebold cohen. Ai weiweis documents the scale of the global refugee. Open in his criticism of the chinese government, ai was famously detained for months in 2011, then released to house arrest. Questions of value of unique and irreplaceable artefacts, and of individual human lives are recurrent themes in ai weiweis work. It is now a source for news about the artist and his work. His nowlegendary sunflower seeds installation for the tate modern. Oct 14, 2017 ai weiwei s documents the scale of the global refugee crisis in human flow for his new documentary, human flow, the chinese artistactivist traveled around the world to document the scope and. And tribute was paid to the life and work of one of scotlands greatest singersongwriters in the artworks scotland documentary gerry rafferty. Doc a research paper on ai weiwei and the analysis of his art. Without fear or favour ai weiweis gangnam style knockoff aids firth, lisa aids crisis aids in south africa. Jul 18, 2011 this fascinating hourlong documentary titled ai weiwei. Video clip of bbc interview, ai weiwei without fear or favor. A time and place where the more outrageously antiauthoritarian and oppositional the statement, the better. Without fear or favour, released by bbc ones imagine program earlier this year and recorded shortly prior to ai weiwei s arrest, helps contextualize his work, its cultural significance and its implicit political tensions.
Exploring the role of art as an agent of change, or what 100 million porcelain seeds. Ai weiwei without fear or favour autumn 2010 imagine. With all due respect to ai weiwei, as hes a magnificent artist, and certainly his family suffered greatly, hes confusing what he went through in china with something that china was decidedly not. Writings, interviews, and digital rants, 20062009 writing art ai. Ai weiwei without fear or favor nabilahs reflections. Ai weiwei with flowers, 20 image via artists instagram ai weiwei and the refuge crisis. For ai it is not just that discarding spatialised memory in favour. Ai came of age as an art student in 1990s new york. Architect, photographer, curator and blogger, ai weiwei is. Chinas bestknown artist, ai weiwei, has been detained in beijing and police have searched his studio, confiscated computers and questioned. Ai weiwei talks to david remnick about art, censorship, and twitter once celebrated by the government, ai weiwei is chinas most famous artist. Get your kindle here, or download a free kindle reading app.
Mar 05, 2011 the fact that the basic structure of the sculpture is circular, could suggest the neverending traditions of the chinese people or how weiwei perceives they are stuck in a cycle of dictators and political unrest in china. Without fear or favour arts documentary, first broadcast before ai weiweis arrest by the chinese authorities in april 2011, and his subsequent. Imagines ai weiwei without fear of favour collected the best film on art for television award at the 2012 montreal international festival of films on art. Download subtitles for ai weiwei without fear or favour alan yentob explores the story of ai weiweis fight for artistic freedom of expression. Alan yentob reveals how chinese artist ai weiwei continues to fight for artistic freedom of expression. The international outcry at the artist ai weiweis arrest is testament to this. Without the internet and globalization, ai weiwei, as you know him, would not possible. Subsequently he relocated to the united states in 1981 and lived there until 1993. He has drawn the worlds attention to the vibrancy of contemporary chinese culture. Does the artist have a moral or ethical responsibility.
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More important, ai, 53, has shown compassion for his fellow citizens and spoken out for victims of government abuses, calling for political reforms to better serve. Apr 21, 2011 ai weiwei is the kind of visionary any nation should be proud to count among its creative class. Born in beijing in 1957, he moved to xinjiang with his family between 1960 and 1976. Some of my favorite infographic sources include information is beautiful, visual complexity, and information aesthetics now, thanks to golan levin, you can make your own designed in just four hours during a f. Oct, 2017 a nonstop, breathlessly instagrammed morning with the chinese artist and dissident ai weiwei in washington square park, where he has installed a massive artwork as part of good fences make good. He attended school at parsons school of design and at the art students league of new york. He is a famous chinese artist and activist fighting for freedom of expression. China imposes new ban on ai weiwei whos afraid of ai. Ai weiwei and many others are ready for a change of pace. Without fear or favour full movie in hd visit arts documentary, first broadcast before ai weiwei s a.
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