Frasi di Ai Weiwei

Ai Weiwei è un artista, designer, attivista, architetto e regista cinese.

✵ 28. Agosto 1957
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Ai Weiwei: Frasi in inglese

“Without freedom of speech, there is no modern world, just a barbaric one.”

2000-09, Ai Weiwei, Nursing Head Wound, Sharpens Criticism, 2009
Variante: Without freedom of speech, there is no modern world, just a barbaric one.

“But every penny they borrowed or made from China has really come as a result of how this nation sacrificed everybody’s rights. With globalization and the Internet, we all know it.”

interview in Newsweek, 21 November 2011.
2010-, 2011
Contesto: Today, the West feels very shy about human rights and the political situation. They’re in need of money. But every penny they borrowed or made from China has really come as a result of how this nation sacrificed everybody’s rights. With globalization and the Internet, we all know it. Don’t pretend you don’t know it. The Western politicians—shame on them if they say they’re not responsible for this. It’s getting worse, and it will keep getting worse.

“I don’t see myself as a dissident artist. I see them as a dissident government!”

Ai Weiwei Twitter feed: @AiWW (January 25, 2012)
2010-, Twitter feeds, 2010-12

“The people who control culture in China have no culture.”

2010-, China’s ‘Mozart’ Drops Off State Hit Parade, 2010

“Overturning police cars is a super-intense workout. It’s probably the only sport I enjoy.”

Ai Weiwei Twitter feed: @AiWW (6:46 p.m. June 15, 2009).
2000-09, Twitter feeds, 2009

“I lost all connection with the outside world and was immersed in a world of darkness. I was scared that my existence would fade silently. No one knew where I was, and no one would ever know. I was just like a small soybean—once fallen to the ground, it rolls into a crack in the corner. Being unable to make any sounds, it will forever be forgotten.”

Wong, Veronica, and Gisela Sommer. “ Ai Weiwei Describes Mental Torment in Captivity http://www.theepochtimes.com/n2/china-news/ai-weiwei-describes-mental-torment-in-captivity-59915.html.” Epoch Times, August 3, 2011.
2010-, 2011

“Writers, artists, and commentators on websites are detained or thrown into jail when they reflect on democracy, opening up, reform and reason. This is the reality of China.”

Higgins, Charlotte. " Ai Weiwei: ‘China in many ways is just like the middle ages http://www.guardian.co.uk/artanddesign/2011/apr/11/ai-weiwei-china-last-interview." Guardian.co.uk., April 11, 2011.
2010-, 2011

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