Ai Weiwei's Intertwining: Art Activism in the Anthropocene and Plantationocene

This lecture will trace continuities in Ai Weiwei's art activism, re-examining works such as Dropping a Han Dynasty Urn (1995), with a focus on the ideas of mortality, copy and “technical reproducibility”. In a second moment, the exhibition Entrelaçar will be framed in a post-humanist approach to planetary, Weiwei’s response to the Anthropocene and Plantationocene “crises” through artistic processes of “technical reproducibility” (moulding, casting, photography and filming).

Speaker| Ana Mendes (Faculty of Letters of the University of Lisbon)