March 2012

Hausmeister unsuccessfully challenged Ai Weiwei’s achievement of an unexplained disappearance at Beijing airport in 2011. But not to be discouraged, he asked for a meeting with the Grand Master and was invited to visit his Cao Changdi studio compound in Beijing on 10 March 2012.

What followed at this historical meeting was Ai’s complete dismissal of the idea that the artwork Hausmeister presented could change anything for the better in Chinese society. "Useless poetry.." and "I am NOT involved... I don’t believe in any of it…”  were among Ai’s milder rebuffs.

Stephan Hausmeister’s conclusion:

"I hereby accept Ai Weiwei’s rejection as a challenge - to prove the opposite."





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