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annual vigil won't be 1989 masika fighting. the pandemic courses prime minister has announced to return to title corona virus restrictions to stem this spread. if the on the chrome variant or is johnson, is urging people in england to work from home and is mandating, coven 19 passes for entrance into public venues. the announcement comes hours after he was forced to apologize for a video showing his staff, joking about holding a christmas party during last year's lockdown. i think the overwhelmingly, the, the public see the importance of the, the messages that they are getting by this medium. it is imperfect or we do what we can to explain what, what we think is, is necessary. i know it's contentious. i know it's difficult, and i know that sometimes the, the messages are a confusing. we do our absolute best to make it as, as clear as possible, and we do everything that we can do to protect public health. that's what we're,

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a company see right now people out of dying children are very upfront with me. mark lamarr hill on out 0. ah part is being used to make cost satisfaction of the brochure our, our society for the rich and the powerful we come from a time a generation. when what matter denart was to be radical today. what the hell does radical me 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 a human being. ah,

ah, i'm a nice kapoor. 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 difficult stuff. chinese authors, i way way to attain it. may jing atwood on sunday is be no official comment from china's government's asking my release. it's become la loca international moment. probably the bigger store 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 the journey into making documentary so by refugees, you're serious with weary 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 artists as her 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 and culture can bring change that gives us that kind of brotherhood ah,

an ish yes. my dear friend. and we're happy to seal and you always have this, the ability to use the your media language to on, to have this as shocking quality to, to provide the and kind and 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 years i've been drawn to a prime or sacrifice meaning death in its origin. it has to do with some ritualistic 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, you mentioned a studio you're working in the studio, but the, i actually, i don't have a studio room. my studio is seen airport hotel room and a feel studio like this. and also i don't have this kind of consistency as you will have, you know, your work at 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 the 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 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 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 ah, 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 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 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 there, but her rather to catch santa 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 room, 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 aught itself is political or can be

political. and what is its role in the politics of or time? let's discuss that anyway. 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, misunderstand 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 a abstract or a, just a sound or a just music or, or even salad can be very political. soul may want to see any form a chosen by our rational mind to decide a life behaving or expression is political to me. so i had the eyes 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 sent her language itself is never known. true. 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 message. i understand. i understand cause the you have the freedom of speech, i understand and there you are, lee, me, a democratic world garage is really a new or important figure out, you know, you're represent so much help for young. what young art has and also serve people will love to you so they may miss and stand the lion and that. but i understand

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 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 me, try to catch, you knows, 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 who are here. 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 in a bowl 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 allowed by law, right? language and our language it, it record 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 burning of like, immediate, you know, an artist is the arc and typical fool is old. but the identity about our self identity or how the words think about ourself or a sink upon others. you know, because when see me, when you 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, a, you know, privileged or a, your 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 so. see shows no art has a cow avoided. of course you can fixed your one point on the one direction,

but we're leaving you so much on problematic. earn time is over away look up where it may be. that is something we should discuss a little bit. the art world or art 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 war. yeah. 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 that turn a 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

takeover. well, that's our big topic. yes, it's not only relate to article relayed tool everything, today's corporate culture and those whole political situation. you can, i'm features and the all being pushed by the class to 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 decorative idea to make satisfaction over the brochure of society and is always being serve us for the rich and powerful soul i

think, is all depends on individual art has it's not about wanting to sell lowball. does the message correct about the, you know, you're always con crazy, old message. i think it's time for question in answers. there's a lot to say way, way about what just been raised, but let's, let's hear this wonderful young person. hi everyone. my name is paul from south africa. where we question really has to do with the sort of present implications and anxiety. is there sort of challenges of artists, especially in conflict in situations or under more critic 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 to loosen balance because 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, my i've, 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. ensure pond are 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 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 placed along the 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 meant that you can't buy mythological propositions, but money is itself mythological. imagine just for a 2nd. a picasso on the wall, come back to picasso, with 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 only a great painting, but it's also this miss a 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 its mythological repercussions go out there in all sorts of different ways. and i'm going to say i'm from china. i have some question to question to ask you that way. actually the 1st phase 2 using so called a but amec will back to assess audi or so the politics in china, you know, ferris way and the 2nd question to you. so how do you think so your own generational facilities will respond to corey in a moment in china, in the years to come,

how it would affect china? i think a would build the government much stronger and they have this house card or hills or everybody have to have it. so that tells the government where you are, who you are social face and where you bond 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 rife on the government rides. and how should they behave?

and this is very philosophical for gold question. actually need to discuss it in a long time. second above the, our to young guard who seen china. i think the problem is not of the art his art has 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 the, there's a lot of berlin, hardest best grades scale. and you know, and very daddy kid devoted himself 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 has been in, i valley is not started from one generation as incur accel. history is the long us the, the human flow is, you know, 11 web or heather refugees. it could be exiles from any place you know, and any place which is not safe. but then the question is, once you're exiled, you're pulled out for me or wrong on the why do you care on the, your language, your sensitivity, all last your become 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 on last thing may 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. oh. from the al jazeera london, bro consented to people in thoughtful conversation with no host and no limitation

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