patrick,
To be frank I didn't notice groups of Chinese people. I was there for
the several preview days and left on the afternoon of opening day. I wll
be going back next week for the magazine conference.
What was strange though were Wei Wei's conglomerations of antique
Chinese chairs. Grouped elegantly and anonymously in the midst of
what sort of seemed like installations of other art. Boundaries
completely fluid, differentiation between different 'works' seemingly
treated as unimportant.
Unfortunately throughout the Aue Pavilion and the Neue Gallerie, there
seemed to be no places to actually sit when exhausted, to wait for
someone, etc.
THe Chinese chairs intensified an atmosphere of uncanny oppression -- so
few human-scaled accomodations (architecturally) to the needs of
visitiors, so many strange gestures.
Could you sit on the chairs ? or not? no one was.
christina
On Jul 10, 2007, at 9:45 AM, Patrick W. Deegan wrote:
for anyone else there witnessing D12, i would be deeply interested in
firsthand reactions, assessments, news, or lack of any of these things
regarding Ai Weiwei's "importation" of 1001 Chinese to Germany for one
part of his ouevre there.
thanks!
-pwdeegan
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