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10-12-2010, 11:27 PM | #1 |
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Oct 13, 2010: Ai Weiwei's Seeds
Ai Weiwei is China's most famous artist, and a big dog in the world art scene. That's a good thing, because he's also a social commentator and activist, which is not a wise career choice in China.
So he was invited to display at the Tate Modern's huge Turbine Hall, so he filled it with 100 million (100,000,000) sunflower seeds. What? Is he an artist or farmer? Artist, these seeds are made of porcelain, and hand painted. Yes, it took 1600 people, 2.5 years, to produce 100 million, 150 tons, of seeds. The expected 2 million people who will come to see this, are urged by the Tate not to steal any... but I would. When Ai Weiwei was asked if he had painted any of the seeds personally, he said he painted 4 or 5, but they were no good. Nobody knows what he'll do with them, after they are shipped back to China in May. But since he was beaten by the police so badly he has a brain tumor, for protesting the corruption in building the schools that collapsed in the big quake, I suggest he build a seed shooter.
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10-12-2010, 11:48 PM | #2 |
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It's equivalent to a giant bowl of fake fruit, I guess.
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10-13-2010, 02:45 AM | #3 |
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I ain't a-goin' to one of them seedy art galleries.
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10-13-2010, 05:34 AM | #4 |
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Look at that huge room covered in seeds. Think about one hundred million.
Then remember there are 13 times more people in China than there are seeds in that room. And for perspective, there are three times as many people in the USA, and 68 times as many on the whole planet.
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10-13-2010, 07:11 AM | #5 |
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WOFTAM. Seriously, just think of the useful stuff that could have been done by 1600 people in 2.5 years. Grrr.
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10-13-2010, 07:12 AM | #6 | |
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10-13-2010, 08:45 AM | #7 | |
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That turbine hall full of seeds is how we look at China, a blur of sameness. When actually there's all those seeds... uh, people, that are each unique.
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10-13-2010, 08:54 AM | #8 |
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Oh sure! When an "Artist" spills his seed on the floor, it's called innovative, when I do it, all I get is "Clean that up!!!".
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10-13-2010, 08:57 AM | #9 |
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Your probably coming close to 2 million visitors by now, aren't you?
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10-13-2010, 11:08 AM | #10 |
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Freakin' trick sunflower seeds made of PORCELAIN? I thought corn nuts were bad--they are--but I'd break a tooth for sure around these.
Pretty amazing vision, even though each individual piece "seems" unremarkable, inconsequential. Your life is made up the same way. A LOT of little similar acts, over and over again, producing a whole that is a very different thing from the individual pieces. ...and the occasional broken tooth.
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10-13-2010, 11:44 AM | #11 |
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porcelain seeds? a couple hundred rock pigeons will clean that right up
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10-13-2010, 11:48 AM | #12 |
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Not sure about the length of the Chinese workday or workweek, but I think this figures to around 5 minutes apiece.
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10-13-2010, 01:42 PM | #13 |
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This seed professionally painted and packaged by 汉语/漢語 华语/華語 中文 (Bob)
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10-14-2010, 12:12 AM | #15 | |
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What would you be having these folks do? And who's going to pay for it?
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