re: Ai Weiwei [One Eye, Mao, Allen Ginsberg…]
For His Father and His Son, Ai Weiwei Is Determined to Leave a Trace
"You're just a pawn in the game, you know," a public security officer summarily informs Ai Weiwei
October 30, 2021
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/10/30/books/review/1000-years-of-joys-and-sorrows-ai-weiwei.html
Do you attack the king at the beginning of the game?
Do you attack and remove pawns first?
https://qresear.ch/q-posts/4281
The Chinese performance artist Ai Weiwei has never been convicted of a crime. Yet, Credit Suisse, one of the world’s largest banks, cited his “criminal record” in China, according to Reuters, to justify closing his bank account.
Meanwhile, pro-Beijing politicians in Hong Kong are raising a ruckus about Ai’s art, which they claim violates Beijing’s new national security law. That has pressured a new Hong Kong art museum to pull one of his photographs before it has fully opened its doors to the public, and to remove both the photograph, and a sculpture, from its website.
Ai told Reuters that banks in Germany and Hong Kong had also taken actions against him, similar to those of Credit Suisse.
September 15, 2021
https://www.theepochtimes.com/chinese-artists-knocked-by-china-corruption-in-big-western-banks-and-museums_3992727.html
Ai’s trajectory is impossible to understand without knowing about his late father, Ai Qing. Regarded as one of China’s greatest poets, Ai Qing was a leftwing hero, having been imprisoned in 1932 for his links to communism. Later, he was a friend and an intellectual sparring partner of the Communist party leader Mao Zedong
October 30, 2021
https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2021/oct/30/ai-weiwei-it-is-so-positive-to-be-poor-as-a-child-you-understand-how-vulnerable-our-humanity-can-be
Ai Weiwei: One Eye / Illumination
https://d1jrllzqbjb41.cloudfront.net/uploads/attachment/image/body/16262/Screen_Shot_2020-03-19_at_14.49.30.png
Chinese artist Ai Weiwei poses with his artwork made of Lego, entitled "Illumination 2019"
June 23, 2020
https://www.theepochtimes.com/ai-weiwei-says-new-security-law-is-the-end-of-hong-kong_3369454.html
Moar One Eye
https://artnowla.com/2018/05/14/ai-weiwei-humanity/
https://www.newsweek.com/chinese-artist-ai-weiwei-shares-images-refugees-while-greece-409875
https://www.pinterest.com/pin/348325352401901992/
“At a poetry reading at St Mark’s In-the-Bowery (The Poetry Project), Ai met Allen Ginsberg who had come to know Ai’s father (the venerable poet Ai Qing) on a trip to Beijing. He began spending time with Ginsberg. “He read his poems to me”, Ai said, “one of the ones that he wrote for his mother – “White Shroud” – “and I didn’t quite understand it, but he loved reading it”.
Ai spent ten crucial years in New York’s East Village as Allen’s friend and neighbor
https://allenginsberg.org/2011/04/ai-weiwei/
One of the worst drug slobs ever to walk the streets of America was Alan Ginsberg. This Ginsberg pushed the use of LSD through advertising which cost him nothing, although under normal circumstances it would have cost millions of dollars in TV advertising revenues. This free advertising for drugs, and LSD in particular, reached a new high in the late 1960's, thanks to the ever-willing cooperation of the media. The effect of Ginsberg's mass advertising campaign was devastating; the American public was subjected to one cultural [future shock] after another in rapid succession.
After the trial run with Ginsberg and LSD, it became standard Club of Rome practice to call upon major newspapers in America to give free advertising on demand to people and ideas they were promoting.
Pgs 59/60
https://www.cia.gov/library/abbottabad-compound/4A/4A92FD2FB4DAE3F773DB0B7742CF0F65_Coleman.-.CONSPIRATORS.HIERARCHY.-.THE.STORY.OF.THE.COMMITTEE.OF.300.R.pdf