Ai Weiwei Relives His Detention in 24-Hour Long Performance
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Relevance
14/25
Freshness
25/25
Authority
18/20
Brand Signal
6/15
Depth
6/15
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SummaryArtist and activist Ai Weiwei is staging his first durational performance, “Sewing a Button,” in Manchester on July 3Ai reenacts the conditions of his 2011 detention in the 24-hour-long live piece, where he will eat, sleep, work, wash, and write inside a replica cellThe piece takes part in his new show, Button Up!, which confronts ideas of globalization, colonialism, and Empire through the
