シドニー・ビエンナーレ*1に艾未未*2は、「難民」問題をテーマにした巨大なインスタレーション”Law of the Journey”で参加しようよしている*3。
さて、濠太剌利での発言；
Chinese dissident: Even changing leaders won't change China
Updated 3:28 am, Monday, March 12, 2018
SYDNEY (AP) — Chinese dissident artist Ai Weiwei said Monday that it doesn't matter whether or not China has a change in leadership, the culture and the system will always remain the same.
Ai's comments came a day after China's rubber-stamp lawmakers passed a historic constitutional amendment abolishing a presidential two-term limit that will enable Xi Jinping to rule indefinitely.
"China has always been, you know, emperor state. ... So a change leader or not change leader, the system and as a culture always stays the same," Ai told the Australian Broadcasting Corporation in Sydney, where he was launching an exhibition to highlight the international refugee crisis*4.
In 2011, Ai was detained by Chinese authorities for his outspoken views on human rights. Ai's passport was withheld for four years but was returned to him in July 2015. The artist now works from a studio in Germany and has traveled the world to document the plight of refugees and migrants.
The move to scrap term limits has crushed faint hopes for political reforms among China's embattled liberal scholars and activists, who now fear even greater repression.
China allows no political opposition in any form and has relentlessly persecuted independent groups seeking greater civic participation. Leading Chinese officials have repeatedly rejected any chance of adopting Western-style separation of powers or multiparty democracy.
https://www.fairfieldcitizenonline.com/news/world/article/Chinese-dissident-Ai-China-s-culture-will-always-12745630.php
Holly Williams “How Chinese artist Ai Weiwei became an enemy of the state” https://www.cbsnews.com/news/ai-weiwei-how-chinese-artist-became-an-enemy-of-the-state/
これは昨年５月のインタヴュー。
*1:https://www.biennaleofsydney.art/
*2:See also http://d.hatena.ne.jp/sumita-m/20060721/1153461174 http://d.hatena.ne.jp/sumita-m/20070325/1174844327 http://d.hatena.ne.jp/sumita-m/20080411/1207885619 http://d.hatena.ne.jp/sumita-m/20081216/1229359616 http://d.hatena.ne.jp/sumita-m/20090728/1248778994 http://d.hatena.ne.jp/sumita-m/20090806/1249527407 http://d.hatena.ne.jp/sumita-m/20091230/1262140525 http://d.hatena.ne.jp/sumita-m/20101114/1289714185 http://d.hatena.ne.jp/sumita-m/20110114/1294972605 http://d.hatena.ne.jp/sumita-m/20110228/1298867905 http://d.hatena.ne.jp/sumita-m/20110328/1301286491 http://d.hatena.ne.jp/sumita-m/20120621/1340242828 http://d.hatena.ne.jp/sumita-m/20120623/1340377615
*3:Shannon Conellan “Ai Weiwei makes bold statement about the refugee crisis with giant inflatable boat” https://mashable.com/2018/03/13/ai-weiwei-biennale-of-sydney/#vo4Cxz7eDgqi
*4:See Rosemary Bolger “Ai Weiwei: Detention centres give Australia a 'bad image'” https://www.sbs.com.au/news/ai-weiwei-detention-centres-give-australia-a-bad-image
