Ai Weiwei and Anish Kapoor (Part 1) | Studio B: Unscripted

Ai Weiwei is one of the world’s most influential living artists and activists, known for addressing human rights and freedom of expression issues through his work. His memoir: 1000 Years of Joy and Sorrows, shares his family story of growing up in China.
Sculptor and installation artist Anish Kapoor has created large-scale artworks across the globe that challenge us to engage subjectively with them, including Cloud Gate in Chicago and the ArcelorMittal Orbit in London.
The two global icons compare notes on freedom of expression, how art can challenge power, and what subversive art looks like today.
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[@rosariomarques1]

Ai Weiwei is, first of all, a Real Human Being ♥ I love him. Both are great artists and this is a most interesting dialogue !

[@thomasart123]

So valuable time I spent with these two legends. Ai wei wei always in my heart ❤. I can feel each and every word he speaks 😑

[@kamyarmohsenin]

this conversation is criminally underrated

[@33akachi10]

AI Waiwai is amazing. I feel like this conversation between the privalaged and the "not privileged." Must be nice to not have to worry about anything. To be able to make work about absolutely nothing, with no real purpose.

[@darrenrogerseire]

Two quotes from this discussion. Ai Weiwei 'if you think to much you can not really act'. Amish Kapoor speaking on being an artist, 'our greatest fear has to be self censorship'.

[@selwyncambridge]

Great conversation!!

[@naved.a]

So so so good, thanks for sharing

[@user-kw2sp3gq4d]

yes de-educate yourself! i love this! great job from two of the most famous artists of the world

[@hemusinghjain9422]

Thanks to Al-Zazeera give us chance to learn more about wonderful artist

[@dhomta9326]

Al Jazeera don't delete people's comments, my trust in This media is diminishing...

[@Wintry_Jasmine]

China had been through wars, Japanese mascara & raped in Nanjing is just one of the difficulty China & the Chinese had gone through. The presence & the future of China will recovery from the passes.

[@ramumaredu1227]

It's great talk to Anish

[@latetodagame1892]

I thought Anish was a good guy, but I just don't know after the Vantablack controversy. Does anyone have an opinion?

[@latetodagame1892]

Art can't be easily erased.👍🏼

[@7pinky791]

Art can be cancelled!

[@sajitharshankhar8490]

❤❤

[@lineokobeli9330]

Where is part two?

[@jconnet]

Kapoor is an influential artist who likely will be remembered. Weiwei has no aesthetic view or medium. He’s not an artist. He’s an activist that feeds on Western perceptions of political relevance.

[@mohamedraaifrushdhy6693]

Stuart Semple who??

[@sadiqakbartaranwal]

Congrats to everyone who is early And who found this comment 👏 ❤..

[@harmony3138]

Why no news here on Nagaland killings today?? What about no news on "Hindu groups target Gurgaon’s Muslim prayer sites" - the latest news! Same at Wion. Till yesterday, Indians were begging here to give news about burning of Sri Lankan factory manager!

[@DardedilIsb]

تھانہ چونترہ کی حدود کلری گاؤں راولپنڈی کے رہائشی محمد اکرم جو کافی عرصے سے انصاف کے حصول کے لیے نیشنل پریس کلب اسلام آباد کے باہر اپنی ایک جوان بیٹی اور معذور بیٹی کے ساتھ ذلیل ہو رہا ہے بقول محمد اکرم کے رشتہ نہ دینے کے تنازعہ پر اس کی 14 سالہ بیٹے کو اغوا کر لیا گیا دس دن کی باگ دوڑ کے بعد اس کو چھوڑ دیا گیا اس کے بعد مخالفین نے اس کے سامان اور گھر پر قبضہ کرلیا اس باگ دوڑ میں محمد اکرم کی بیوی وفات پا گئی مزید محمد اکرم کا کہنا ہے اس کے مخالفین جنہوں نے اس پر ظلم کی انتہا کر دی ان نشتر شفقت اور افسر نامی شخص شامل ہیں جو راولپنڈی پولیس رینجر میں تعینات ہیں محمد اکرم نے مزید بات کرتے ہوئے بتایا ملزمان پرپولیس نے ایف آئی آر دی مال بھی برآمد کیا اس کے باوجود ملزمان کو کھلی چھٹی دے دی گئی محمد اکرم انصاف کے تقاضوں کے لیے ذلت آمیز زندگی گزارنے پر مجبور ہوگیا آج ایک معذور بچی لے کر وفاقی دارالحکومت میں کھلے آسمان تلے رات گزارنے پر مجبور جس کا کوئی پرسان حال نہیں محمد اکرم جس کا موبائل نمبر جس پر رابطہ کیا جا سکتا ہے اس کی امداد کے لئے انصاف دلانے کے لئے 03073879135 j

[@karanraheja9957]

Al Jazeera and trt world ignore the news of sri Lankan killed in pakistan

[@lettucesalad3560]

It sounds like he's lost hope - that would be sad.

[@SuperDuperGodspeed]

Two Jedis

[@anoshprofest6813]

Hello

[@latetodagame1892]

Adjust to the unjust

[@wangziyue2437]

Ai is Not even an artist. Destruction of old cultures does not mean changing to the new. People can disagree with their government and culture but it cannot be called art. Cannot understand because I am not stupid enough.

[@7pinky791]

Artists? I wouldn't call these 2 artists.

[@olafsager6056]

Of course Ai Weiwei is a well known artist. But he also moves on the border to agitation. I personally think art is not worth being demagogic. We artists don't need to reach people with our work. Art reaches everyone person if that person learns to stand still, learns to see, learns to listen. And I personally think art is essential but art don't need to be political. If you are hungry, eat, if you have enough to eat, give it to hungry ones. So simple it is, no need to make out of it a political gesture. (from my com-museum, book 45)

[@dhomta9326]

Mediocre mentality!!! who do you think to talk about Art??

[@leescupetrr2046]

the most radical thing that can be done today might be this idiot idea that came to me 8 years ago. to create a company that you registrate it as a art object *( like a wohol backwards, instead taking a company u create one and create it as a art produc), you aply a logo ( witch is a symbol , a hermaneutic way of comunication) that anyone can draw, making everyone and artist for the moment they do the symbol, but in the same time is a social performance that conect everyone trought a action, that object could be a bottle of water, water being the medium that interacts and accepts memory at a molecular level, witch means you can imprint emotional frecvency into its structure that by drinking them would intereact with and communicate with the water within you, this would be the second act of performance and union because people would drink water that would have the same emotion within, third thing the water bottle should have a Qr code that when you buy it you acces Share from the registred company m resulting that everyone who would drink the Water would be the buyer and owner of the product, but in the same time a viewer but the performer. So the company that is an art produce that creates art , transforms the buyer in the art and owner of the company. this can be done with blockchain tech. Have Fun