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- Ai Weiwei has in Berlin conducted a panel discussion with peace laureate Liao Yiwu.
- In this case, the Chinese artists showed told for the first time since his arrival in Germany four weeks prior to this country on a larger scale.
- Ai, which was home to him and talked about fear and the meaning of laws in China.
In the Berlin Philharmonic photography is prohibited. Ai Weiwei is not interested in the course. As he sits on Wednesday night with the peace prize winner Liao Yiwu on the podium, he always attracts his smartphone from his pocket and snaps
Shortly after the event, you can view the results on Instagram:. Pictures of the room, where wait the artists for their appearance, a Selfie, a black and white shot of Herta Müller, who is friends with Liao and sitting in the second row, after the Philharmonic at night -. latter had the next morning already 746 Likes
We welcome Ai if not like a pop, then at least as a classic star; safe hundred people hoped after the event that he’ll sign them books.
It was his first public appearance with Liao, the first time that you could see him since his arrival in Germany four weeks before on a larger scale .
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Meanwhile, however, time was enough for numerous interviews, and since Ai had felt shortened mainly by the Time and therefore cited misleadingly, he wanted that evening rather without a German journalist (it was Wolfgang Herles been) climb the podium.
Whether he feels free, with his passport? No, just a quiet
So Liao slipped into his well-known role of the interviewer -. Several of his books are based on discussions, on talks with the so-called ordinary people
Ai is now to be by far the most famous interviewee, so he had antrinken up courage must he joked at the beginning, with him his translator at some point – whether jokingly or not -. purloined the flask
Whether Herles’ questions of which Liao had particularly distinguished, remains So open. The themes definitely were obvious. What was home for him, asked Liao, and Hai told that he had passed on the way to the Philharmonie on trees with small fruits – the same trees with the same small fruits had stood at the edge of the Gobi desert, where he was a little boy with his father lived in exile. Homeland is today indeed a very regional feeling.
courts and laws
Whether he feels free, since he had his passport back? No, only quieter. Of what he was afraid? Fear had all that life is ultimately weak and fragile, fear might have been especially true if you will not when they perceived themselves, if you will cut off from the family, from other people, and even objects.
That was happened to him in prison. Whether he be guilty towards those felt who still were sitting in jail? Yes. And how is it then with his statement that the arrest of a few lawyers – specifically also: Ais lawyers – was not a big deal? This must be viewed historically, after all, there is now in China, unlike in the 50s and 60s, courts and laws. This was a successful step.
However, the courts are not yet independent, the law would not necessarily follow that China is just not a constitutional state. No one knew better than the lawyers themselves. They lived with the constant risk of being arrested, and would take it into account.
About Art was as almost usual is no longer talked to the artist. But there are fortunately Instagram.
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