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Remembrance 《念》

On April 24, 2010 Ai Weiwei (@aiww) started a Twitter campaign to commemorate students who perished in the earthquake in Sichuan on May 12, 2008.

 

3,444 friends from the Internet delivered voice recordings, the names of 5,205 perished were recited 12,140 times.

 

"Remembrance" is an audio work dedicated to the young people who lost their lives in the Sichuan earthquake.

 

It expresses thoughts for the passing of innocent lives and indignation for the cover-ups on truths about sub-standard architecture, which led to the large number of schools that collapsed during the earthquake.

 

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Ai Weiwei - According to What? @ AGO - Art Gallery of Ontario

 

www.ago.net/aiweiwei/

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