Chinese artist Ai Weiwei was selected as one of the runner-up candidates for TIMES 2011 Person of the Year Award. Ai Weiwei is known in the architecture world for his collaboration with Herzog & de Meuron, serving as the artistic consultant for the Beijing National Stadium, otherwise known as the Bird’s Nest stadium.
Ai Weiwei is well-known for his political activism, being openly critical of the Chinese government’s stance on democracy and human rights. Following his arrest in Beijing earlier this year, Weiwei was detained and interrogated for over two months without any official charges. He was then fined $2.4 million for back taxes and penalties, which he believes to have been politically motivated.
When TIME journalists Hannah Beech and Austin Ramzy asked Weiwei about what motivated him to merge the Internet with political activism, he credited his involvement with architecture.
“I got involved with architecture. To work in architecture you are so much involved with society, with politics, with bureaucrats. It’s a very complicated process to do large projects. You start to see the society, how it functions, how it works. Then you have a lot of criticism about how it works.”
Read the entire TIME article and full interview with Ai Weiwei here.
顶艾婶
啥意思，咩看懂，叮一下偶像，相片还是很帅的嘛
原来是时代人物呀，恭喜啊！！爱艾神哦，一定要走下去哦
Сто процентов, братан. Я так и думал ))
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He should have “won” TIME person of the year im(h)o. TIME is too chicken to make a stand and chooses an anonymous fictional person “the protester”….jeez. As if the protesters for Islamic rule in Cairo have anything in common with the bums camping in Western capitals.
H-J, theres more than just cairo. Its syria,bahrain,tunisia, egypt, libya, in the Middle East. As well as European countries. The protestors in the US, are entitled to their protests and opinions. So I think the choice is a fantastic one.
As for Ai-weiwei, what has he done for the world this year that is more important than the porotestors ? Other than tax evasion of course.
Of course, everybody is entitled to their protests or opinions etc. I just don’t see in any way how the Arabic struggle to overthrow semi-secularized regimes and replacing them with a Sharia-inspired theocracy have anything (besides the facial hair perhaps) in common with some unhappy campers. Therefore I find it a poor choice of TIME, forcing similarities and putting all those protesters in the same category is just silly. So basically everybody who is unhappy about any kind of religious-political-economical system has won Person of the Year award, congratulations! Sara Palin will be thrilled…
моя не понимать, зачем драчдейли, принимает участие в троллинге Китая?! нахуй десиденты, на сайте посвященном архитектуре???