Ever wonder why Mr. Ai tweets largely in Chinese? We did too, and we asked him as part of the Tate’s interactive video booth for his Unilever Series installation:
Here’s his response:
Kudos to the Tate Museum and Mr. Ai for bringing interactivity and access to the installation. If you stop by the museum, be sure to say hi!
RT @fredsun512: 你的瓜子 cnn 頭條 Tate porcelain seeds ‘could damage health’ - http://bit.ly/9xdaZk #cnn @aiww
He left Beijing for the Olympics, “not as a boycott – as some have said,” he explained. “I don’t want to have to talk about it all the time. I am much more interested in what is going to happen to [the stadium] after the Games. I would like it to become a place where people like to go, bring their children or can come for mass weddings, or maybe mass divorces or, best of all, to have barbecues together.’
http://www.guardian.co.uk/theobserver/2010/oct/10/ai-weiwei-artist-ed-vulliamy
