massive status of monce, emerald is still at level 2, which means that at this level, the people need to be more vigilant because the potential threat is still there when the government was by then. what many people still wonder why they weren't warned early enough before saturdays devastation drilling wolf aldo 0. ah, again, i rec log with headlines here in our desert, viewers has announced a diplomatic boycott. obey james winter olympics, accusing china of genocide. the treatment to muslim weakness, merkel athletes will still complete the grade. trying to describe the move with political manipulation. true to you was more on china's ref. well, not a total surprise from beijing. this has been discussed for some weeks now, and tony's foreign ministry on monday actually addressed the possibility of the u. s. announcing a diplomatic boycott accusing washington of political grandstanding political

manipulation. and they said that this move went against the spirit of the games. chinese state media equally has a release some firm articles and statement saying that this is an attempt by the us to contain china's rise, that this was reflective of a cold war mentality. and this will no doubt escalate. tensions between the 2 countries which have been frosty for some years, south africa's president as again criticized sweeping travel bonds impose on his country because of the armor chronic, varied speaking there, security for him in senegal, cyril, rosa, also accused western governments of failing to deliver coven 19 vaccines they had promised to the african continent. he says he will soon make cove it 19 vaccinations, compulsory for all workers in the private sector. it is the most sweeping measure of any state or large your city. and from the middle of next week, children aged between 5 and 11 will need at least one vaccine dose to enter restaurants in theaters a cases in new york or rising. there are concerns over the spread of the omicron

variable a south african crew members suspected of being infected with the variant is among the 17 cases that cove 19 detected on a u. s. cruise ship. it left new orleans in the last week of november and made stops in belize on doris and mexico for turning some passengers complained of not being told about the outbreak while on board. sir is state news agents. he says air defenses are reacted to an israeli attack on a port, an attack here province on the mediterranean coast. the report quoted a military source saying a fire broke out after the tact, but nobody was injured. israel regularly launches strikes in syria, but rarely confirms its operations. now today, with headlines, more news here on al jazeera after studio b unscripted. on counting the costs, all may drawn, puts oil in stock markets into a spin, and the global economy battled through another cobit set back was

a green hydrogen haps, but clean energy of the future. and the billionaires, broadcast is a big box of india's i. p, o, pretty counting the costs on al jazeera blue part is being used to make cost satisfaction of the brochure war society for the rich and powerful. we come from a time a generation when what mattered in alt was to be radical. today, what the hell is radical mean? ah, ah, ah, my name is i why, why? i'm mom artist. and am activist. i'm reminder. i'm documentary maker,

but 1st i'm human being ah, ah, i'm a niece kapoor. i'm an artist. and i live and work in the u. k. we couldn't be more different way and i am in our approach to what we do. i'm much more interested in the esoteric the pho attic or whatever else, all that difficult stuff. chinese authors, i way way attain it. may jing edward on sunday is be no official comment from china's government's asking my releases become more allegra international moment. probably the biggest or either 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, so by refugees, you're syria to them as we we and 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 artist, esa, some specialist, but the railroad 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. i'm a happy to seal and do you always have this ability to use the your media language to on 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 is 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 the years i've been drawn to. i'm prime or sacrifice meaning death in its origin. it has to do with some richer list 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? or 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. mike has a little different, as i mentioned, a studio you're working in the studio, but i actually, i don't have a studio room. my studio is in airport hotel room and a feel studio like this. and also i don't have a says kind of consistency as you will have, you know, your work in a certain materials colors and a 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 the so many different professors. 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 dealing with daily matter and the for me, a moment in the past and is the future in the prison? the situation is every assembly have with your permission, re weigh. 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, dobbs 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 ah, the idea that a comrade we had never met. we have never met, but that a comrade could be incarcerated in this way. so i came back to london, and i decided to do an gangnam style, dance performance. all sorts of people in london came to my studio. the great earth of young choreographer, a crumb con, choreographed us, and we did a gun and style for i way way i think as to really brave, very married, touching. well, because we are not doing just floyd charles or butter rather to catch lanta spirit

tall moment. art 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 re, well 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 words political. yeah. that only implied to a certain sense and the people with a misunderstanding or that is misleading. you know, so he, 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 just a sound or it just music or, or even salad can be very political. soul may want to see any form or choose him 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. a new choice of being not political is as political choice. so in that sense, i had sent her language itself is never no true. it's always or has its own content easier unless you don't describe it, but it does 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 casa, you have the freedom of speech, i understand, and there you are, lee, me, 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 garters and also serve people

will love to you so they may miss and stand the light on that front. i understand your statement is a like a very wade, he philosopher in the, in the orient. when all it's naughty as well, i don't know. so, 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 or 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 to try to catch, you know, you go to like this rather than like miss that 2 different ways of doing it,

of goals. that's very indian, by the way. you and he were heck, 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 terrified me. dangerous is leah is old pulse, we can be very dangerous, yet has anchor. why? you see the art has political. a can be very misleading and dangerous, and you'll see most so called the political arg doesn't work because a new message has to be carry loud. barry, right language and our language. it record is the artists of a to so that's why i say the nose is to be reached this way, but has but her mother is lovely. very fascinating. you reach on north our way a yeah, you need low god. 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 archetypical fool is old but identity about our self identity or halder with sync about our self or a sync about others. you know, because when see me may think about ourselves. we think about our relations to people who are different or to we really belong to the mass in for you. your artist . are you 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 and

are free expression, i think so. see shows no art has a 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 may be. 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 said something wonderful, which i think about a lot painting is not decoration for your living room painting is wor, no, not i think matter his sad that 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 on 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 art 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 a big topic. yes, it's not only relate to art of gold, relate tool, everything, today's corporate culture and the, those whole political situation. you can, i'm features and they all being pushed by the class to capitalism or state capital reg, as the new capital wreck, they all know the world has new structures, you know, and they're so powerful. they're basically designed or lifelong or behaving, or knowledge dictation. and of course, in general art art as being used us decorative idea to make satisfaction over the brochure, our society and is always being serve us for the

rich and powerful soul. i sent. it all depends on individual art has it's not about wanting to sell lowball to the message correct about the, you know, you're always can create your message. i think it's time for questioning answers. there's a lot to say way, way about what's just been raised, but let's, let's this wonderful young person. hi everyone. my name is paul from south africa, where we question really an issue with the sort of implications and anxiety is there sort of challenges of artists, especially in conflict read in situations or undemocratic context such as china. how do you balance that? you know, why didn't you do that 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're thinking, what is a medium for about a life, then you protect the value. and of course, it is very often is the loosened balance because the, their reality in 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. i think 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 pond, although 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 was 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 can 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 the smith that 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 felt me 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 want a tree on one level, but one hopes that its mythological repercussions go out there in all sorts of different ways. and i'm sorry, i'm wrong, china. i have some question to question to ask you that way. actually the 1st these 2 are using so called a, but amec will peck to assess audi. oh, so the politics in china, you know, serious way. and the 2nd question to you. so how do you think so your own

generational facilities will respond to korean moment in china, in the years to call how it would affect china? i think a would build the government much stronger and they have this house card or house and everybody have to have it. so that tells the government where you are, who you are, social phase and worry about to your, your grocery and you know, which, which car you, are we transported to your go from one place, one to pon be. so those made the garment stronger, some kind of excuse, and not while be copied by the, the world, every nation, almost. so the coin could totally changed our understanding about the individual

rise on the government rides. and how should they behave? and this is a very philosopher for gold question. actually need to discuss it in a long time. second above the art young guard who's seen china. i think the problem is not of the art. his art has ever worked as a new individual trying to express themselves. but the problem is the ceiling is so low. you can stand up, just make q you for, you will really want to act. you have to 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 that there is a lot of berlin, hardest vis, grades scale. and you know, and very daddy can devoted himself to art, loves art,

but you're in 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 has been in excel. it's not started from one generation as incur i excel. history is long as the, the human flow is, you know, 11, wherever the header refugees, it could be exiles from a new place and any place which is not safe. but then the once you're exiled, you're pulled out for me or ground on the why do you care under your language, your sensitivity, all last you will become

a are transparent number and life has no meaning anymore. so that is, that is true challenge for an individual the me as an artist by nature, the person who lost the choose to be lost. we have taken all the dog parts of our environment and turned into a nice little place in which everything is good. but actually it's the death ah, from the al jazeera london,

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