Art History - S2 week 12 - 30/09/2019

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China Contemporary art part 2: ai Weiwei
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bCG9IbE-O7I

"The artist, activist and dissident Ai Wei Wei is in New York this week to open “Good Fences Make Good Neighbors” -- his monumental response to the global migration crisis, and his largest public exhibition to date. The 300 works were installed across New York City to coincide with the release of his film, Human Flow, which documents the mass displacement of people around the world. Suroosh Alvi met him on opening day in Central Park." 

notes
- New York is like a machine has a lot of parts
- most powerful and fortunate people are here, as well as unfortunate migrants 
-  Ai Weiwei use to work as an artist on the street doing portraits for random strangers and tourist. 
- The refugee situation has got so out of hand, is there somehow I out myself in a situation where I challenge myself as an artist or a human rights defender? 
- I am interested in politics... humanity
- solutions? human conditions in 21st century, globalization.
- so it is a human problem it can be solved by humans easily. 
- This can only be solved by us until we have a moral and political understanding of the situation.
-  if we don't ask those questions, we take liberty and democracy for granted 
- we will end in tragedy thats for sure
- this piece is related to migrants, to borders, fences, territory, nationalism, and society becoming more devided 
- find a language that can extend my concern, and build a platform for people to make some kind of argument. 

Thoughts
My concern with his works is people on the street who see it do they have any context to his works is there anything saying that that is what his work is about. This is because of the fact that people could walk by this and not even connect that it is about migration.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H8QAjQ1GS2U

In this episode, we meet Ai Weiwei in Athens for his solo exhibition at the Cycladic Museum. We revisit his most iconic works and see how Ai Weiwei became the artist and the champion of human rights that he is today.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ltQhkK3UmaI

Unforgettable interview with the world's best known artist and political activist, Ai Weiwei. In this personal and profound discussion about his art, his political activism, and his current effort to shed light on the global refugee crisis, learn about his family background, his time in a Chinese prison and about his thoughts on the current political situation in China.

Interview with Rolf Dobelli at the 2017 WORLD.MINDS Annual Symposium on 7 December 2017 in Zurich, Switzerland

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1xgE_en-cT8

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