Ai Weiwei with the music of Zuoxiao Zuzhou, one of China’s best-known rock musicians, draws playfully on rock and roll, leading composer for independent Chinese films, is releasing an album of metal-tinged songs. Zuzhou is one of the founding members of the “East Village” artists of the 1990’s – a Beijing based group of artists who fueled the explosion of Chinese visual and performance art in the global marketplace.
First Ai Weiwei released a Gangnam-style video, followed by a cameo performance with renowned musician Elton John. "I really loved it. I had to make so much effort; I have never known music before. I'm really very passionate," said Ai, who wrote the lyrics and sings, and Zuoxiao Zuzhou, who was also questioned during ai's disappearance, provided the instrumental backing. Ai Weiwei is back again with another creative artistic endeavor that will surely entertain the masses and poke at his nation's officials.
And Tomorrow much more a play by Howard Brenton at Hampstead Theatre, North of London. Ai Weiwei was secretly detained for 81 days from April 3 to June 22, 201. To remember his “disappearance” into secret police detention, tomorrow on 19 April, "The Arrest of Ai Weiwei" LIVE and for FREE you can watch live-streaming worldwide HERE, from 7pm on (London time).
"On 3 April 2011, as he was boarding a flight to Taipei, the Chinese Artist Ai Weiwei was arrested at Beijing Airport. Advised merely that his travel “could damage state security”, he was escorted to a van by officials after which he disappeared for 81 days. On his release, the government claimed that his imprisonment related to tax evasion.
Howard Brenton’s new play is based on recent conversations with Ai in which he told the story of that imprisonment – by turns surreal, hilarious, and terrifying. A portrait of the Artist in extreme conditions, it is also an affirmation of the centrality of Art and of freedom of speech in civilised society."
The Live-Streaming has been brought to you in association with Friends of Ai Weiwei
CREDITS
Designer Ashley Martin Davis
Lighting Matthew Richardson
Choreographer Scott Ambler
Sound Emma Laxton
CAST
Christopher Goh
Junix Inocian
Andrew Koji
Orion Lee
David Lee-Jones
Andrew Leung
Richard Rees
David Tse
Benedict Wong
