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See You In Coca-Cola Happiness Factory (2010)

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happiness factory

 I'm in Shanghai, at the World Expo. The Coca-Cola Happiness Factory is where we'll be sent when we're too old to be productive any longer. The process is quick and painless. We won't feel a thing.

See more images of the Expo in the gallery.

Posted on October 22nd, 2010

Ai Weiwei: Where we are, he is too. Where he is, we are with him (2011)

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Dropping a Han Dynasty Urn

 As I write, the Chinese artist Ai Weiwei has been in detention for 51 days and 6 hours. I know this so precisely because someone who goes by the handle loveaiww has placed a counter on the web. On the door of my apartment is a poster with a silhouette of Ai, made from a photograph taken during a period when he was interested in getting (and giving) weird haircuts.

Posted on July 6th, 2011

1001 Chairs for Ai Weiwei (April 17th 2011)

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1001 chairs for Ai Weiwei
1001 chairs for Ai Weiwei
1001 chairs for Ai Weiwei
1001 chairs for Ai Weiwei

 Ai Weiwei has not been seen since April 3rd. Here are a few images from today's shambolic but well-attended protest outside the Consulate of the PRC in Manhattan. 

Posted on April 17th, 2011

Shanghai World Expo 2010

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 In October 2010 I spent a day at the World Expo in Shanghai. From the gigantic (and ominous) Chinese pavilion to the glum chicken shed erected by the USA, every nation had something to say about itself.

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Shanghai
Polite Sharing and No Challenging
Malaysia
school children
Walkway
Pavilion of City Being
spectators
photography
This way
Citizens initiative
Posing with Hai Bao
Volunteer Square
Volunteers
In Line
Canopy
Chinese Pavilion
Interacting
looking in a hole
Indian Pavilion
coke concession
style
marching
Japanese Pavilion
DPRK
Drummer Ladies
Hello World
UN Pavilion
On the walkway
Cycling
Greek Pavilion
Spanish Pavilion
Beware!
UK Pavilion
UK Deckchairs
Fibre Optics
seeds
More Seeds
Seeds
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Posted on October 22nd, 2010
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Shanghai, Istanbul Oct-Nov 2010

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China-Turkey friendship flags

I'll be in Shanghai 20th-25th October at Get It Louder! which is "China's most influential and closely-watched exhibition of emerging young talent across creative disciplines". Not sure what they mean by 'closely-watched' but Ai Weiwei will be there. Liu Xiaobo won't.

Posted on October 14th, 2010
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