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This is by far the greatest interaction not only on this website but on the internet and maybe within the entire realm of human and animal sociality
An astonishingly irreverent piece of work. This triptych features the artist dropping a Han Dynasty (206 BC - 220 AD) in three photographs.
When questioned about the work, he suggested that the piece was about industry: “[The urn] was industry then and is industry now.” His statement, therefore, was that the urn was just a cheap pot two thousand years ago, and the reverence we feel toward it is artificial. One critic wrote: “In other words, for all the aura of preciousness acquired by the accretion of time (and skillful marketing), this vessel is the Iron Age equivalent of a flower pot from K-Mart and if one were to smash the latter a few millennia from now, would it be an occasion for tears?”
However, the not-so-subtle political undertone is clear. This piece was about destroying the notion that everything that is old is good…including the traditions and cultures of China. For Ai Weiwei, this triptych represents a moment in which culture suddenly shifts (sometimes violently), shattering the old and outdated to make room for the new.
“LISTEN YOU. I Hate tricks.Theyshsanst A waste a time!You can’t fool me!Im too ignorant!you ever mention tricks to me again ill have you arrested and put in jail!”
“sightseers” by Eve Ewing, from her collection 1919
Often the “sightseers” and even those included in the nucleus did not know why they had taken part in crimes the viciousness of which was not apparent to them until afterward. (23)*
The sad truth is that the most evil is done by people who never make up their minds to be good or evil.
(Hannah Arendt, The Life of the Mind)
just this once I hope you’ll forgive me
for writing a somewhat didactic poem
I just didn’t know how else to say
that we live in a time of sightseers
standing on the bridge of history
watching the water go by
and there are bodies in the water
and the water has been dirty for so long
and the sightseers still drink from it
they buy special filters and they smile
they have nice glasses and teacups
they put sugar in the dirty water
that has our bodies in it
and there are sightseers
seated beneath the tower of empire
peering up at the lights
and there are children in the tower
and the tower has been crooked for so long
and the sightseers still look at it
they find the lights enchanting
they meet up on the weekends
they have picnics in the plaza of the tower
that has our children in it
and there are sightseers
looking at the house of power
waiting to take a tour
and there are devils in the house
and the house has been wicked for so long
and the sightseers still worship it
they stand in front and take pictures
they marvel at the white pillars
they send postcards of the house
that has the devils in it
and just this once I hope you’ll forgive me
for asking you directly
to forget the lovely water
to forget the charming pillars
because there are children in the tower
there are children in the tower
and they are dead already
*[Each of the poems in 1919 begins with a quotation from the 1922 government report on the 1919 Chicago race riots entitled The Negro in Chicago: A Study on Race Relations and a Race Riot]
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