SummaryArtist and activist Ai Weiwei is staging his first durational performance, Sewing a Button, in Manchester on July 3Ai reenacts the conditions of his 2011 detention in the 24-hour-long live piece, where he will eat, sleep, work, wash, and write inside a replica cellThe piece takes part in his new show, Button Up!, which confronts ideas of globalization, colonialism, and Empire through the lens of the British-Chinese textile tradeAi Weiwei is turning one of the darkest chapters of his caree...
SummaryArtist and activist Ai Weiwei is staging his first durational performance, Sewing a Button, in Manchester on July 3Ai reenacts the conditions of his 2011 detention in the 24-hour-long live piece, where he will eat, sleep, work, wash, and write inside a replica cellThe piece takes part in his new show, Button Up!, which confronts ideas of globalization, colonialism, and Empire through the lens of the British-Chinese textile tradeAi Weiwei is turning one of the darkest chapters of his caree...
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