Ai Weiwei - 1000 Years of Joys and Sorrows runway Listen to what David Shrigley

Listen to what David Shrigley has to say about his ‘Fully Coherent Plan for a new and better Society’:more CLOSE YOUR EYES I invite you to imagine a plan for a new and better society where everything is very coherent and makes a lot of sense and nothing is confusing or awful OPEN YOUR EYES No need to imagine

Published on the occasion of Step by Step – Un regard sur la collection d’un marchand d’art

The book offers documentation of nine public projects

Propaganda

Ai Weiwei - 1000 Years of Joys and Sorrows runway Listen to what David ShrigleyOnce a close associate of Mao Zedong and the nations most celebrated poet, Ai Weiweis father, Ai Qing, was branded a rightist during the Cultural Revolution, and he and his family were banished to a desolate place known as Little Siberia, where Ai Qing was sentenced to hard labor cleaning public toilets. Ai Weiwei recounts his childhood in exile, and his difficult decision to leave his family to study art in America, where he befriended Allen Ginsberg