The New Social Environment#200
A Conversation with Ai Weiwei and Paul D. Miller
9 a.m. Eastern / 6 a.m. Pacific
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Join us for a conversation with artist Ai Weiwei and Rail Editor-at-Large Paul D. Miller (aka DJ Spooky). We’ll conclude with a poetry reading from Mirene Arsanios.
In this talk
Please note that this conversation will start at 9am ET / 2pm GMT.
Ai Weiwei
Renowned for making strong aesthetic statements that resonate with timely phenomena across today’s geopolitical world, from architecture to installations, social media to documentaries, Ai Weiwei uses a wide range of mediums as expressions of new ways for his audiences to examine society and its values. Recent exhibitions include: Ai Weiwei: Resetting Memories at MARCO in Monterrey, Ai Weiwei: Bare Life at the Mildred Lane Kemper Museum in St. Louis, Ai Weiwei at the K20/K21 in Dusseldorf, and Good Fences Make Good Neighbors with the Public Art Fund in New York City.
Ai was born in Beijing in 1957 and currently resides and works in Berlin. Ai is the recipient of the 2015 Ambassador of Conscience Award from Amnesty International and the 2012 Václav Havel Prize for Creative Dissent from the Human Rights Foundation.
Paul D. Miller (aka DJ Spooky)
The Rail has a tradition of ending our conversations with a poetry reading, and we’re fortunate to have Mirene Arsanios reading.
Mirene Arsanios
❤️ 🌈 We'd like to thank the The Terra Foundation for American Art for making these daily conversations possible, and for their support of our growing archive.