At Large
AI Weiwei on Alcatraz
Published on 10. March 2015
192 pages
978-1-4521-4747-5 (ISBN)
Description
Internationally renowned Chinese artist and activist Ai Weiwei is one of contemporary art's most newsworthy figures, noted for both his groundbreaking work and his outspoken stance on human rights, which ultimately resulted in his controversial 2011 detainment. In an astonishing new large-scale project, he turns his attention to Alcatraz-a place he cannot visit because he is not permitted to leave China, but that stands as a world-famous symbol of both incarceration and protest. This book showcases a major exhibition of site-specific, multimedia installations and sculptures Ai Weiwei has created for the island, on view from the fall of 2014 through the spring of 2015. Featuring beautiful photographs and thought-provoking text, At Large is the essential document of this remarkable happening from one of today's most celebrated artists.
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Language
English
Place of publication
California
United States
Product notice
Windows
File size
45,32 MB
ISBN-13
978-1-4521-4747-5 (9781452147475)
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Content
- Cover
- Title
- Copyright
- Contents
- Preface
- Introduction
- Artist's Statement
- Alcatraz Timeline
- Ai Weiwei @Large on Alcatraz
- A Family Lineage of Conscientious Objection
- Art & Activism, 1978-1981
- Picturing Dissent: The New York Photographs (1981-1993)
- Beijing East Village, Community & Curation
- Social Media as Interventionist Art (2006-2014)
- Wenchuan Earthquake in Sichuan & Its Aftermath
- The Claws of the River Crabs
- Eighty-One Days and Counting-Incarceration
- Musical Self-Therapy
- Flowers for Freedom and Remembrance
- Flying with Fettered Wings
- The Power of the Powerless
- Notes
- Universal Declaration of Human Rights
- Preamble
- Artworks
- New Industries Building
- With Wind
- Installation, 2014 Handmade kites made of paper, silk, and bamboo
- Trace
- Installation, 2014 LEGO plastic bricks
- Refraction
- Installation, 2014 Tibetan solar panels, steel
- Hospital Wing and Psychiatric Observation Rooms
- Blossom
- Installation, 2014 Porcelain, hospital fixtures (sinks, toilets, bathtubs)
- Illumination
- Sound installation, 2014 Audio files, speakers
- A Block
- Stay Tuned
- Installation, 2014 Custom-made furniture, speakers, audio files
- Pussy Riot
- Virgin Mary, Put Putin Away (Punk Prayer)
- Víctor Jara
- Manifesto
- Lolo
- Raise the Tibetan Flag, Children of the Snowland
- Dining Hall
- Yours Truly
- Interactive installation, 2014 Custom-designed postcards, racks, tables and chairs
- Interview with Ai Weiwei
- Related Readings
- Uncle Sam's Devil's Island (1933)
- Letter from Birmingham Jail (1963)
- On the American Free Speech Movement (1964-1965)
- Proclamation and Letter Regarding the Native American Occupation on Alcatraz Island (1969)
- Direct from Alcatraz: Interview with John Trudell (1969)
- Address to the World Congress of the International PEN Club (1994)
- Contributors
- Credits
- Image Credits
- Additional Image Credits
- Text Credits
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