Posts tagged “Say Their Names Remember”
“Say Their Names, Remember” — Remembered
You’ve probably visited the Ai Weiwei exhibition by now. If so, you surely felt the impact of the wall of Chinese characters in one room and, on the floor in front of it, the installation of rebar arranged in jagged bas-relief (“Straight”). The rebar was salvaged from poorly-built schools that collapsed in the 2008 Sichuan […]
Volunteer help wanted for “Say Their Names, Remember”
The AGO will host a community art performance to help launch the Ai Weiwei exhibition – and we volunteers can help. On Sunday, August 18, explains Bev Carret, Chinese-speaking participants will combine to read aloud the names of all 5,200 schoolchildren who lost their lives in the 2008 Sichuan earthquake. The performance, called “Say Their […]