{"id":3837,"date":"2019-01-16T00:05:08","date_gmt":"2019-01-16T00:05:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/josefelixvaldivieso.com\/?p=3837"},"modified":"2021-05-20T17:32:27","modified_gmt":"2021-05-20T16:32:27","slug":"ai-shen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/josefelixvaldivieso.com\/en\/ai-shen\/","title":{"rendered":"AI SHEN (\u827e\u795e)"},"content":{"rendered":"

New York, Brooklyn, 29 October, 2015. <\/b><\/span><\/p>\n

Once again, Bruno and Arun meet in New York. As usual, there are conversations pending, and interminable disagreements. On Metropolitan Street, almost at the corner of Kent, in the Williamsburg district, they pause. <\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cThis is a piece of shit,\u201d says Bruno pointing at the graffito. \u201cNoise, images. Just about any top model has more impact on the world than anything else.\u201d <\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cDon\u2019t exaggerate.\u201d <\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m telling you, a guy like Ai Weiwei (<\/strong><\/span>\u827e\u672a\u672a<\/span><\/strong>)<\/strong> is like one of those flies that want to get out of the room and bang again and again against the window. It\u2019s clear to them, they want to get to the other side, and bump, once again, they\u2019re up against it. That\u2019s the way it is. It\u2019s a desire to play a role in the world. But there\u2019s no way on earth anybody\u2019s changing China.\u201d <\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cStop trying to change things,\u201d replies Arun. \u201cArt is art and the world is the world. I\u2019m glad they\u2019re separated by the glass. There\u2019s no reason why the one should play a role in the other.\u201d <\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cOh, come off it! What do you want, do you think art is just about making the world a prettier place? Shouldn\u2019t it be able to transcend things? <\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cBruno, it\u2019s not because anybody wants it to, it\u2019s that art will always transcend things.\u201d <\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cCome on Arun, you\u2019re so infuriating. What I\u2019m saying is that top models, footballers, or whoever, are continually sending messages, images, noise\u2026 These wretched people have stolen artists\u2019 thunder. Ai Weiwei (<\/span>\u827e\u672a\u672a<\/span>) has no choice but to create a fuss, elevating himself to art, to be a work of art himself, a brand that produces more images, more news, than that top model…\u201d <\/span><\/p>\n

And Arun interrupts Bruno, because he knows this is a conversation with no end and because whatever Bruno says, for Arun art isn\u2019t supposed to change anything necessarily, it\u2019s just a way to pass the time on the other side of the window. Bruno puts his hands to his head and simply says that Ai Weiwei (<\/span>\u827e\u672a\u672a<\/span>) is also known as Ai Shen (<\/strong><\/span>\u827e\u795e<\/span><\/strong>)<\/strong>, which is to say the Divine Ai, or the God Ai, whichever you prefer.<\/span><\/p>\n

—<\/p>\n

P.S.:<\/p>\n

The artist who painted the graffito has gone to the trouble of depicting Ai Weiwei (<\/span>\u827e\u672a\u672a<\/span>) as the Monkey King in Journey to the West. That\u2019s why he has those features and facial hair and is wearing the magic head band the monk Xuanzang tricked him into putting on his head so that when the monkey misbehaved he would get terrible headaches. The red line could be from the tight headband, or could be the line that Ai Weiwei mustn\u2019t cross in criticizing the Chinese authorities. The graffito is in Williamsburg, Brooklyn near to where Ai Weiwei (<\/span>\u827e\u672a\u672a<\/span>) lived while studying at the Parsons School of Design during the 1980s. More from Arun and Bruno in Watch it! , Operation Fun, Sex is Fun, and We Laugh Less.<\/span><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

\u201cThis is a piece of shit,\u201d says Bruno pointing at the graffito. \u201cNoise, images. 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