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"Sunflower Seeds is a sensory and immersive installation, which visitors can touch, walk on and listen to as the seeds shift beneath their feet. However, the tactile, engaging nature of this work also encourages us to consider highly pertinent questions about ourselves and our world. What does it mean to be an individual in today’s society? Are we insignificant or powerless unless we act together? What do our increasing desires, materialism and number mean for the future? Ai Weiwei has said “From a very young age I started to sense that an individual has to set an example in society. Your own acts and behaviour tell the world who you are and at the same time what kind of society you think it should be.”Originally Posted by redcaimen
"Visitors to Tate Modern have been banned from walking on more than 100 million porcelain "sunflower seeds" that an artist is exhibiting.
The seeds were created by Chinese artist Ai Weiwei to fill the central London gallery's turbine hall.
When it opened on 11 October he urged guests to stomp on the seeds and roll in them.
But concern has now been raised over "dust" being created and people must now look at the work from above. "
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Nice. Apparently neither the Tate gallery or the artist have the slightest respect for their "immersive installation". I suppose "looking at the work from above" is fine if they can still sell tickets and the artist gets paid. Dust is simply too great a nuisance/hazard and the saps who eagerly pay their money and file through to look at this thing will have to encourage themselves to consider highly pertinent questions about themselves and our world. What does it mean to be an individual in today’s society? Are we insignificant or powerless unless we act together etc.. etc.. on their own time and by their own inspiration.
Sheesh.
We used to have a Richard Long circle of stones outside the kitchen, and when we would get drunk as kids, we would rearrange the stones. I guess it seemed more rebellious back then.
