China's Ai Weiwei: battling propaganda with art

China's most controversial contemporary artist Ai Weiwei often uses art to battle against government propaganda. He is currently staging his first solo art exhibition in Beijing, exploring what the country produces and consumes. A web version of an AFPTV report.Duration: 2:01

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[DarkprinX2500]

@cgseggal the dude is a sicko.. one of his pics.. he's nude covering his private.. WTF would anyone want to see this fatass naked.. yuck.. thank china for shutting this pervert down

[CharlieALabtech]

@DaPhillosophizer sorry about that, as I was saying,I dont know Chinese media & film well enough(especially film meant only for domestic audience) to pick a good example, but a good substitute would be GDR's portrayal of the West as a drug riddled,immoral society where mothers dont raise their kids,people are simply left to be homeless, and where women's rights are trampled on due to constant marketing of thin models. Because average GDR citizens are stuck in the East, it seems plausible .

[CharlieALabtech]

@DaPhillosophizer My idea- both China & the West are using each other so that citizens in each think,in the West "oh,well at least I'm not in soul crushing,authoritarian China" or if they are Chinese "oh,well at least I'm not in decadent,chaotic West".

Take Z.Liang's Crime & Punishment-as a Western,it feels subversive-switch locations to US,it seems like an artsy episode of Cops. I dont haveggg

[DaPhillosophizer]

@WORLD8NSH5KNIGHT1 What about Paul Robeson?

[DaPhillosophizer]

Little do you groupie's know that the U.S. is probably one of the greatest forces of censorship, we just happen to do it through corporate control instead of state. Where does this guy get the money to afford such a huge waste of cotton? hmm sounds like somebody with money is endorsing him. I wonder if he questioned American gov't while he was here? NO. This guy is not as much of a free thinker as you guys think, he has a political bias and is a tool of American propaganda. Propaganda wars......

[WORLD8NSH5KNIGHT1]

@cgseggal

Wrong. Propaganda is the Great Firewall- the rigid censorship imposed by the CCP to stop you seeing the facts about Chinese history over the last 62 years.

The reason brave individuals like Ai state their views outside China is because that is the only way they safely can do. Despite what you think, it does not mean they are anti-China. In fact, the exact opposite is true; They are very pro-China, just anti-CCP. 

[pervertt]

The Nazis had a special term for art they didn't like.

They called it "deviant art."

[yerk3]

@cgseggal Propaganda for whom? The Chinese people? Humanity? You have to stop assuming that because someone questions one government, they must support another. Ai Weiwei is a people's patriot. A patriot of the world.

[cgseggal]

Ai Weiwei IS propaganda! And so is his art.

[Vukartic]

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