Ai Weiwei: Visual artist | Full Address and Q&A

Ai Weiwei: Visual artist | Full Address and Q&A | Oxford Union

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Жыл бұрын

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Ai Weiwei is a Chinese contemporary artist, documentarian, and activist.
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@shamgarsitar1170 2 ай бұрын

What makes his story so compelling is that it never changes ⚖️ He is unwavering in his ethical & moral commitment to 🖼️ & humanity on a personal & global scale ⚒️

@merfymac Жыл бұрын

I don’t get is why the interviewers spend most of their short time with Ai prompting him to retell a biography most know or can find out simply by reading about his history. Perhaps nobody noticed but Ai Weiwei is not a dead artist. He’s there. There on that stair. Right there. A Chinaman with shoes on. Well, I declare! You can ask questions about the living indescribable familiar world of today we share.

@lynnhubbard844 Жыл бұрын

they are students and young, probably an assignment

@troygoss6400 Жыл бұрын

Great interview. Thanks for posting the interaction with this artist.

@catherinehoy5548 Жыл бұрын

23:10 This marvellous man says 'the internet has become an abusive use of public space' quod erat demonstrandum... the comments below.

@perspicaciouscritic Жыл бұрын

27:33 - Unless, I misheard (or misunderstood), in answering to the definition of art, I think Ai Weiwei meant to say, "once you *can* [as opposed to can't] give a clear definition, that is not art anymore."

@Cinepobrefilmfestival Жыл бұрын

Oxford needs to pic smarter interviewers

@merfymac Жыл бұрын

No need to presume the interviewers are dumb. It’s more polite to demand smarter questions. Agree or no?

@lynnhubbard844 Жыл бұрын

they are still students and probably, because of their age, cannot grasp what he is communicating

@lynnhubbard844 Жыл бұрын

and his language skills have certainly greatly improved...I saw a doc on him a few years back

@wenqing3992 Жыл бұрын

Some societies are agriculture ones, what people need is Good News, education, medical care and not damaging the nature etc?

@linstein5903 Жыл бұрын

A fantastic interview opportunity wasted by a bumbling and incoherent interviewer. Watching him attempt to reinterpret a question by simply repeating it, suggests a lack of ability.

@lynnhubbard844 Жыл бұрын

have some patience...we were all university students at some time---this is a university and a fabulous opportunity for these students, whether they can fully grasp what is said yet, but they will connect it at some point later.

@linstein5903 Жыл бұрын

@@lynnhubbard844 judging by his inability to speak coherently, he's more university of East London than university of oxford.

@ShannonJacobs0 Жыл бұрын

Read one of his books and wanted to send him some thoughts about language learning, but never figured out how to do it. Unlikely to watch any long video on KZfaq these days because of the increase in offensive ads, many of which are rightwing propaganda.

@lynnhubbard844 Жыл бұрын

poor Hong Kong

@ishrendon6435 Жыл бұрын

Why??? Theyre privalleged than most of chin. Hong kongers didnt struggle like the chinese have . They were handed crap on a silver platter unlike chinese people