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I i im trying to say i call civilization man and it calls you know call played a role people call. Call the sheer growth very you started your brand it was something that you know human being cannot get although i think that. I. The chinese artist ai wei wei has made the Global Crisis surrounding displacement refugees migration and exile the central theme of his recent work. For using the undocking here you are since twenty fourteen more than ten thousand refugees have died in the mediterranean people. Are document everything a more secure and i think records are needed for future generations so they dont think. Someone documented it. My way when. He is a sharp critic of the chinese regime in two thousand and eleven he was arrested for years he was not allowed to leave china at the first opportunity he left and settled in but that was in july two thousand and fifteen. I didnt have a passport for over four years and i thought i would never get a battle. I was in despair. And felt that we were living in a Society Without fundamental law and basic security but. They are keeping the ball. To shore so i retain a lot of my family didnt know where i was in couldnt even talk to a lawyer who should. Do a tennis or duction was meticulously planned that they put a black hood over my head. So youre welcome. I didnt know where they were taking me he felt some secret place. And here there were two soldiers watching over me all day. They never move never spoke or if you dont have to sit there. I wasnt allowed to move either. Your fortune if i wanted to use the toilet to drink water. But i was only allowed to when they let me. From here was have a go. Go from one to obama i still have nightmares sometimes. To go see or i will never go completely away. Memories often surface at night or. Six. Dollars. A pop at first i found this place frightening it was dark there was no light it was damp and very cold inside. But i said ill take it for im an architect i can fix these problems. Im used to underground spaces you know what because when my father was exiled turchin young lived underground there to. His finish sniffing if. Not most of its not john need anymore anyway way teaches that the ballon university of the arts as the Einstein Foundation visiting professor. He has the students come to his own studio for classes. New. To the scene of his masterclass is refugees ice past and present in germany underground the. Arabs. Guarding the source and so important. One of the chosen in the circumstances heard are. We there so its my way away is a demanding teacher he expects his students to be passionate about their projects. Now very often they see your work but in general you make a clear. You know your mind the hardtop and but the storytelling was a narrative for its not attractive because theres so much detail suddenly said and the most interesting part. So yeah i see you said you were clear. When you just laid down for them that the installation was inspired by lesbians i met many refugees it was the mayor gave me the lifejackets job. I want to do use them when the time is right you want it to be so. I wanted to draw attention to the Refugee Crisis Center make it more of a public issue. So i would confront people in berlin or europe with it. So its more than just something they see on television every day. I way way cause to think he was photographed on the island for an indian newspaper lying in the position in which the syrian touched could have been found dead on the beach to. Understand why you cant do that. I think we should be able to take any photo we want to because im an artist isnt that what freedom of expression means. Children are dying every day not just. Thousands of already died in the sea. She has. To go. Or look at. How many people are dying in this very minute as we speak. We know how many children have died there do people care. What the only thing they care about is that i lay down like that or the whole ridiculous. No one ever explained to me why i cant do that. And i certainly dont know. That they have different moral standards. I weigh way off and gets up a full five in the morning to work on his memoir in which he also writes about his father the famous poet i ching. Which enjoy my father had a Strong Influence on me because he was a man of principle or whatever he did he could do very well whos sort of it all. Washed. To ship pop i was born in one nine hundred fifty seven you had the same year he was branded a rightist the actual i along with hundreds of thousands of others. On the anti Rightist Movement was how maos a dummy dealt with chinese intellectuals. They were exiled to remote areas all the Living Conditions were miserable. Our situation in exile was like that of todays refugees in both cases people are declared enemies by a political system should be here. To make his documentary about the global refugee crisis human flow a way and his team traveled to more than twenty countries. Just going over those kids walk in there. So sure theres. Lighting and say i knew what. He does i won the interview him just. So you know look look at your money. No im not being you should just show the hard there you can turn a little bit getting close to him. Where is your dad i got. In afghanistan. Right. Now they are not going to mike are in here because this is at one of the cant hear you miss them yet. You are. Just such a small smart boy you must be a very Good Students in school yeah. I mean First Mission school. Here. Its obvious that these people didnt come here in search of a better life for me its because they have no other choice with double life and now theyre stuck here waiting to pass through oh to me to the gate remains close to the goal they wont make a dime for them and i want a white home. I. I i. I. I i did its like the end of the world. Older more leaked out but towards he said i can see europe is working hard on a treaty with turkey which in my view will turn the refugees into slaves. Because its all be nothing but of exchange army will generally do so much no one really understands how to tackle the refugee problem at the realty she said youre. Not mean a good few. There are some warning. Because the grandson nice. Meaning. That we dont we dont need a meaning piano. No way we need the big piano when youre the big piano we dont need a meaning piano. Theres a piano player only because chairs professional player because the wall in syria she cannot play for us. Three years so shes come to know as you know ask her what they do on the plane beside the paid off and. I. Miss the little part you want to play for a longer article theres a little part of the one. Hundred year i was surprised. As she began she suddenly said how do you play again i cant seem to play anyone. And i said. All this effort to get a piano when you forget it and she said i cant remember what it is and then she did play a few notes and i said just a couple of notes are ok. If i were a way family life is centered around the kitchen he likes to make chinese dumplings with his girlfriend one fan and their son i doubt. That your father show you ill show you how you know. Rub them in the flour and itll work. Well what i did not really do want to tell you its easier. Just watch me. Turn and. Roll it again to. Find. What you. Want to me are always a good companion. To what he has a better relationship to his mother than he does to me and thats understandable. But im pretty strict and sometimes i may think im too strict which. I often interfere in other peoples business. Or if i reprimand someone at the office and he doesnt like that or to the cops or. He says why do you criticize them like that where i think thats great i was on. My way way has done a number of projects in new york recently and also looked for traces of his earliest days he first went there to study in one nine hundred eighty one then too he was living in exile like many other chinese artists of his generation he had wanted to escape oppression at home. You know your shorts or so through dos i feel free to in the years i spent in new york rummage twenty four to thirty six or taurus you know i had some of my most important experiencers going. Through that period i learned a lot about art and contemporary thought she chewed up the ocean and senorita new york is also a very long lee city and i wasnt always happy. There for what actually. I had no money chair or you know i could hardly speak english in mail it was pretty hopeless. This is my apartment yeah. There are sloughed. I just believe in this story. And this one builds on the sides. I basically mean nothing to do in there i feel quite. Depressed. That. Yeah just a waste of that day but that two weeks for the few years and a few more years and a few more years was. In so much two thousand and sixteen i way way traveled to beijing for his first visit since leaving china the year before. Or the chuvalo sure course im overshadowed from the minute i arrive theres no doubt about it but its always going to be like that where you are from quite a huge of which the feeling of coming back. Can i say. Its miserable its all gold you know nothings changed some things have gotten worse. From there you have on them all together it puts you in a bad mood so you just enjoy get them. So you want on and thats why i always twitter something every day but i know it doesnt have much of a factor. Compose a stranger and then expecting us are not hard to tell. I specifically said i want to empty and clean and that you know. So you will know for from drawing out for what is left right studio is very important to me. Its what ive been working since two thousand and six ten years already. Back then i participated in the documentary and concert. For that so i knew the very large studio to realize my project and thats why i rented it. Off we. Still need your sixteen point nine meters not sixteen meters hurdle the diameter is not correct if it doesnt fit and has to be completely redone are there any problems like this it will have to be reworked. So i have to say maybe. Under dont look i see a lot of problems here at the seams. Now i mean and we made a model of a refugee boat yet. In the south. We found a factory in specializes in this kind of boat. We asked why they were so busy. For what they said they have orders for thousands or tens of thousands of books for what order or from defiance of court for more they need so many boats called for ports and they said turkey what i summed up when i realized these results are for refugees or maybe all come from this one manufacturer you have all come on im going to talk you know. That. Wish i was there this photo was taken when i just moved to new york you call that you were cute back then the handsome man so sweet. But hes not so bad now either. As a child he was a very good boy how did he end up like this he was so tidy as a child he always wore clean clothes now he wears things that look like they came from the trash he was sweet as a child. And then. He talk. You know what they are while apart he was imprisoned for eighty one day. Later it became clear that he wasnt physically mistreated. But he couldnt stand the psychological torture. That he had no idea what would happen to him. Why didnt he one days without daylight. What. Was his mother i was very worried whether he was even alive or whether he was still with us whether he was being mistreated. I went through hell during those eighty one days. Well you know oh im sending this picture to my grandson so he can see what his grandfather looks Like Washington this year this is what i read it. Yet my darling this is my favorite photograph is me and your grandfather. It was taken in shanghai before your father was born yes he and i ching and go here and you know thats almost sixty years ago amazing. Really almost sixty years i dont know if you were twenty three that you know yeah from the arches. Here its what he wants and i wanted to be where he can live in freedom right. Yes and i treated him. Well and i did but its good that he still has a chinese passport so he can return because im still here. What you do after im gone is up to you but as long as im alive you need to come back you like then. Yeah. You can stop us right look. At. How. People get. Here they are. On the phone for. Siegel my life is like an exile us. And my status is like that of a refugee what happens hell are. In berlin and i know a leader free like this with my child and my girlfriend over. Here but i dont understand german really so i cant easily take part in society. Or to walk in and i can choose to return to my place of origin because its very unsafe for you. What i did before you know me and people could come to watch. All those home. You dont mean after the Campaign Going to many was forcibly cleared they were all kinds of clothes shoes and other things left behind here comes the bill but i didnt want these things to be left behind that way. To the lead so we collected the clothes and brought them to germany what we washed in ireland and on everything up sword and photographed it out you should watch out of that the things that go. Im going to be. The refugee issue is much bigger than me realize there will be new wars to go for and more places will dry up like in kenya and then there will be more refugees since people wont be able to live there anymore. To go and the wall that america wants to build along the Mexican Border to go all those things are based on narrow minded political views drug abuse based on excluding others peoples attitudes. To his film human flow i way way travel to israel and the gaza strip for the first time a company does always on his travels by and large group of young assistance of many nationalities. I. Feel. Should your home your job but when the world is different kind. Refugees see summer expelled that have to flee their country but there are so many refugees they get locked into a place and will never have the chance to move freely so you would say you dont. See. What you promised accomplish and i think these people feel miserable and their sorrow doesnt just come from the lord but rather from cultural discrimination and isolation by other states. And its impossible to deal or cope with that in a lifetime the whole day or even the following generations might be refugees and thats the big tragedy playing out right now. But. Look i mean i mean most of our free the idea of pleasure is hard. For this animal form egypt when years to have tunnels to fly caves it was easy to smuggle out of us like this for the fellows to gaza. One in gaza. Way way he suddenly has an idea he just signed it to fill in the its nothing unusual for him to change his plans on the spot if the moment i was sure that tiger is the king of the animals. But one day the men would be locking him in a cage destroys the natural balance. Thats all i see for the truth. Or the thought of putting the younger and i put in the way people treat animals there lived a war drum did just the way they treat each other. Thats obviously young. Girls and what do i think such a life lost all meaning you should be. A city. Moving. In the world. Is not about i mean for them i mean i was not for. What i did. So we. Welcome entryway by the big break to get off the wall and. So on not ask about god but if your generation. Was important to have a young peoples voice for the future why would be a bad guy kind of goes at me interview which really is just sit over there yeah i think overnight altogether yeah yeah but lets come over here. I thought id give it a. Good. While youre saying the future is going to be a moment we have no hope of finding a job you have studied for the sake of getting a degree. Im going to. Well like you she did for me and you know i sometimes make sure that. I way way was back in new york again in late two thousand and sixteen for his exhibition at date projects made up of clothes discarded by refugees it into mania camp this was the first of a series of major art projects in new york. One of the insights but the show is tricky one would expect the clothing would be a clue to foreign clothing it would be arabic dress very good at there yeah and here this is exactly the same thing yeah this modern societies we have across modern society if this is if its a very profound mistake she just completely contemporary its the same thing that people are wary here of broadway. This is. So i would it will mean she doesnt want to have too many reforms because this is really just statement but im going to give you the money from what im. Saying kill for coming enjoy the show. You know your fever you mean the term for new york city has a city of immigrants but everyone here has some connection to refugees or migrants me thats why i find it fitting to show the exhibition here sector to show for sure. For sure all you go with every exhibition i also try to answer the question of who i am. Her. Hair i think she had all of it was it she had the benefit of it not homeless guys that what i had out i asked for it because. I had not read anything. Any. Woman Young National we have been working on the film human flow for a year or a new job. Whats this we come from the risk you. Think of the media dont cujo dont have to be a. Culture that has a. Judicious city. Term is the from each of the two words in the corner. Or youre the one town so sure i think what im doing has an effect its useful. Done but whether it helps the refugees from a bond i just dont knuckle production. I dont know who can help them hearing. This isnt a Single Person or his many millions worldwide more than sixty Million People have lost their own bills and more are losing im every day but and all i. Want to you for my art is like a voice for me. When i use it to try you can be a song or lament ok she can go when the meaning of our changes. We need to change the language. Yeah you. Still. Might. Not be good enough for it like. Your great. Britain had none. By a. One man not. The. Way. The or. Are you up to speed on the latest technology. Then it may be time for an upgrade. Or become