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i'm mom artist. alum activist, i'm reminder, i'm documentary maker, but 1st i'm human being ah, ah, i'm a nice cook poor. i'm an artist and i live and work in the u. k. we couldn't be more different way and i in our approach to what we do. i'm much more interested in the esoteric, the po, attic, or whatever else, all a difficult stuff. chinese authors, i way way i need to attain at making atwood on sunday is be no official comment from china's government's asking my releases become la loca,

international moment. probably the biggest or i were to try and her rescue or artist people in culture need to have a political voice. my art isn't overtly political in any obvious way. i hope it is in all sorts of underhand ways. at 2015, i sound a journey into making documentary, somebody refugees here, syria to them, as we will. i decided together to make a walk across london. and we walked in sympathy as if we were in refugee status ourselves. i narrow sanker artists as a some specialist by the railroad, the ha, clear rationale, piano emotions. so this many shows can be discussed. we

identify in this question of how a culture can bring change that gives us that kind of brotherhood ah and ish. yes, my dear friend, and we're happy to seal and do you always have this ability to use the your media language too long to have this a shocking quality to, to provide the kind of condition which is quite a is for audience. tell me what is behind this work. i feel that i truly, truly have nothing to say,

but nothing to say as an artist, meaning i don't have some message to give the world. but i deeply believe that my intelligence, if it's anyway, it's not here, it's here and it guides me through my daily practice. i go into the studio every day and continue a process. in the last years i've been drawn to a prime or sacrifice meaning death in its origin. it has to do with some rich unless stick. original practice that i feel i've been working with for the last 40 years since i became an artist. and of course, certain things are consistent, but color read the idea that the 2 dimensional world and the 3 dimensional world

are mixed with each other. so all these things come into play and that is our voyage of discovery, isn't it? what i know? who cares what i know? i say for to knowledge we live, i suspect in a post knowledge era. anything i want, i can get on here 3 seconds. so what do i need to know? my job as an artist is to d, educate myself, and find a way to something that i haven't the faintest idea what it is. and i think that's a game we play with ourselves. i know you play the same game. my case a little different is, i know you mentioned a studio, you're working in the studio, but i actually, i don't have a studio room. my studio is in our port hotel rooms or a film in

a studio like this. and also i don't have this kind of consistency as you will have, you know, your work in a certain materials, colors and language which are clearly identify for your are for the my identity. tiered apart. you know, i grew up in china and spend time united states went back to china in a decades and did a so many different professions. finally, i still can be called us artist. sometimes they call me activists. but it doesn't matter. you know, it's a seal said that we have it of dealing with daily matter. and for me, a moment this is a past and is the future in or the present. the situation is every so they have with your permission re way. i'll talk about how we 1st came to know each other. and i, so i was in korea and i saw that you had made

a kind of comic in a way dance performance to gunman style. and as an act of protest are being under continued house arrest in beijing. and i saw this and i felt deeply moved by the idea that a comrade we had never met. we had never met, but that a comrade could be incarcerated in this way. so i came back to london and, and i decided to do an gangnam style, dance performance. all sorts of people in london came to my studio, the greater of young choreographer, a crum con choreographed us, and we did a gunman style for i way, way. i think i saw really brave,

very married touching well because we are not doing just for a child, but a rather to catch that. his spirit tal moment ard, cannot be easily erased or by, by the superpower. exactly. so it points to various things. one is that visual culture or let's say poetic culture, not just visual, right? whether it's theater, whatever else matters, that it matters to government. weirdly, governments are afraid of what if you like poets think and how they put it in the world. the poetic act has such power to drive hundreds of thousands, if not millions of people to certain kind of conclusions about the state of being that we occupy. i feel this is the most important thing of all i'm and as

a and what it brings to the for, for us to discuss perhaps, is this question of whether art itself is political or can be political. and what is its role in the politics of or time? let's discuss the highway. i think this is a very good topic. yes. very often we use the word political. yeah. that only implied to a certain sense and the people would a misunderstanding. all this misleading, you know, saw him my understanding the intellect of any human being if being expressed is, has political in there, but it doesn't matter as abstract or a justice sound or it just music or, or even salad can be very political. soul may want to see

any form chosen by a rational mind to decide a life behaving or expression is political to me. so i don't as that why i cannot, i easily accept sums. it is not political because really means society, any choice of being not political is as political choice. so in that sense, i had thank her language itself, is never neutral. it's always or has its own content easier unless you don't describe it. but if it's come from a human intellects, it has the message. i suppose, i feel since i said i have nothing to say. then, then that's very political mass. i understand. i understand cuz the you have the freedom of speech, i understand and there you are leaving

a democratic world. garage is really an a, you're important to figure out, you know, you're represent so much help for young. what young artists and also serve people who love to you so they may miss and stand the lion and that. but i understand that your statement is a like a very wade, he philosopher in the, in the orient where, you know, it's naughty as well. i don't know, but, but let me, let me just try and develop this a little bit to think about it in this way. that art can have direct language to say i'm making a comment about this or that, or the other subject. the other way, of course, is that the political plays a role in what is not said all what is half said. so ought, has poetic and philosophical questions, but doesn't directly address political questions. it doesn't mean it's less

political. it just means that it goes about it, if you like me, try to catch, you know, as you go like this rather than like this, the 2 different ways of doing it, of goals. that's very indian by the way. yeah. anyway. but those are very much depends on the nose is still there quite right. very good. ha. so i think this is a kind of key factor about how we reach what in it could be dangerous, and yet it's terrified me. dangerous is a bowl pulse. we can be very dangers, yes. anchor. why? you see the art has political. a can be very misleading and dangerous under your see most so called the political arg doesn't work because a new message has to be correlated by that right language and our language. it, it, we're kind is artists of actors. so that's why i say the nose is to be reached this way, but has but her mother is humbly very fascinating. you reach on north our way. yeah

. you need low guards are. so why can we call ourselves artists? it took me a few years to be able to say, i'm an artist because what i do is where a kind of cloak of responsibility. nobody gave me that responsibility, but it's one i take. and i think it's that serious, so we can do this incredible thing, but it is a burden we carry and we're burden of like an idiot. you know, an artist is the arc and typical fool is old. but identity about our self identity or hallways and cabal, ourself, or a think about others. you know, because when see me, we're think about ourselves. we think about our relations to people who are different or to we really belong to the mass. if either your artist i, you know, privileged or a you or be more responsible in terms of for free it's version,

you know, what, you are really extended the concept of what it is free them under free expression. i think of those issues, no art, his co avoided. of course, you can fixed your one point on the one direction, but we're leaving you so much. i'm problematic. earn time is over away. look where it maybe that is something we should discuss a little bit. the art world, all right, world is completely captured by the capitalist machine. we are not makers of luxury goods, but the art market. the art world treats us as if we are makers of luxury goods in a picasso. he said something wonderful, which i think about a lot painting is not decoration for your living room painting is wor,

no, no, i think that are his sather. yeah. and i think that is key. so we come from a time a generation when what mattered in art was to be radical. today, what the hell does radical meet? it's really difficult. um we live in a post information post modernist, post elbows everything age. um, when the idea of the new, the radical that which is outside of the market system is impossible for us to even imagine it is a terrifying state. i say i'm how can a thing that's radical be for sale. one of the problems that we suffer in the art world for the turner prize, you know, this price that's given in the u. k. now, there are 5 groups of collective artists. what that proposes

is that ot is a social medium which can bring social change and renewal that perhaps is one way out of this capitalist take over. well, that's our big topic. yes, it not only relate to art of overlayed tool, everything. today's corporate culture and those whole political situation, you can, i'm features and they all being pushed by you the classic capitalism or state capital iraq, the new capital direct. they all know the world has new structures, you know, and they're so powerful. they basically designed the are life law or behaving or knowledge i to cation and of course, in general art art as being used us,

that creative idea till may cost satisfaction over the brochure, our society and is always being serve us for the rich and powerful soul. i send it all depends on individual art has it's not about wanting to sell or no other the message correct about the, you know, you're always con credit to your message. i think it's time for question and answers. there's a lot to say way, way about what's just been raised, but let's, let's this one full young person. hi everyone. my name is paul from south africa, where we question really as to do with the sort of implications and anxiety is there sort of challenges of artists, especially in conflict in situations or under mac arctic context such as china. how

do you balance that, you know, went into the way, but also being afraid as a person. i thank you. i think the best balance is loose and balance. if you believe what else you are thinking, what is a medium for about a life, then you protect the value. and of course, it is very often is to loosen balance because the, the reality, the rationality was stop you because you did this was a fact commanded since yourself, your relatives and your friend and your, your relation to the society. so i think if you think too much, then you cannot really act. i think lee, as especially why you're young, you should act in some kind of ridiculous away rather than to, to try and or perform some kind of elegance. it's a beautiful question. really important if i may,

i'm from india and i see that what's happening in india now is horrific. as you say, in many, many parts of the world, of course, freedom of expression is not tolerated. our greatest fear has to be self censorship. it is the not i say there's both in where, where it is free and where it is not free self censorship says close down that part of your self that might risk taking part in something that somebody else will find controversial and ponder. the very important says you have to believe you're better than them. yeah. you may not . when you know, you may become a problem, but the ideology still would come to we have to believe in certain sense as human

being. so that way, when my name is isabella, you, whereas picking capitalism and radicalism, and i would like to ask you, who would you say profits or benefits from your works? well, you see the all world. if i could stop, there is not a straightforward place. the world is the most unregulated monetary exchange for him. there is best place to launder money. you could imagine frankly, but i think what we have to remember alongside that is that while artists make objects, the real purpose of objects is mythological, isn't physical. and what the market doesn't fully get is this miss,

you come behind mythological propositions, but money is itself mythological. imagine just for a 2nd. a picasso on the wall. i come back to picasso. worth 5xw1c5xw or whatever number you want. part of it's mythology when i look at it is, oh my god, it's 150000000. 0 my god, it's definitely a great painting, but it's also this logical kind of value in monetary, cultural terms. so art is always playing this double game, and i think who has benefits, therefore, is monetary on one level, but one hopes that it's mythological repercussions go out there in all sorts of different ways. oh, i'm sorry, i'm wrong. china. i have some question to question to ask you that way. actually. the 1st phase 2 using will call a,

but amec will back to saudi or sort of politics in china. you know, ferris wait. and the 2nd question to you. so how do you think so your generation of this will respond to korea to moment in china, in the years to call how it would affect china? i think a would the bill to the government much stronger. they have this house card or house and everybody have to have it. so that tells the government where you are, who your social base and where your body, your, your grocery and you know, which, which car you are transported to. you go from one place, one to pon be so those made the, the garment stronger, some kind of excuse. and not that while be copied by the, the world,

every nation, almost. so the coin could totally changed or understanding about the individual rife on the government's rides. and how should they behave? and this is a very philosophical figure question, actually need, we will discuss it in a long time. second above the, our 2 young guard who's seen china. i think the problem is not of the art has art who's ever were as a new individual trying to express themselves. but the problem is the ceiling is so low, you cannot stand up, it just make q you want, you really want to act. you have the curl or to, you know, everybody understand this so that a crate, very strangely, image of or chinese artist because nobody can jump, nobody can fly, it says can have to grow. and so is there's a lot of berlin, hardest vis,

grades scale. and you know, and very daddy could devoted themselves to art, loves art, but you're in the wrong wrong location or you're in the right location, then you have to defend your right. bizarre may sacrifice your life. so i cannot even give advice like this. mean way that brings a very interesting, very important question about being an exile, being exile as isn't you know this many writers or many people have been in? i vow it's not that started from one generation as i excel. history is the long us the, the human flow is, you know, 11 web header refugees. it could be exiles from a new place, you know, and any place which is not safe, but then the say,

so once you're exiled, you'll put out for me or ground on the why do you care under your language, you are sensitivity. all last you will become a are transparent number and life has no meaning anymore. so that is, that is true challenge for any individual. the me as an artist, by nature, the person who must think we choose to be lost. we have taken all the dog parts of our environment and turned it into a nice little place in which everything is good. but actually it's the death oh.

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