Ai Weiwei (艾未未): Commemoration (念)

Ai Weiwei’s latest performance piece is a three hour and forty minute recording of the reading the names of all 5206 children who died in the 2008 earthquake in Sichuan:

All the children’s names are listed here.

From ChinaGeeks:

“Reading”, posted to the web in the form of a three-and-a-half-hour-long MP3, is a recording of netizen volunteers reading the names of every single student who died in a school in the Sichuan earthquake1.

Ai posted the recording with the following message:

“Presenting to friends a work that shows the voice of the students killed in the Sichuan earthquake: “Missing”. It represents the memory of the lives that have been lost and the anger at the covering-up of the tofu-buildings2. Respect life, refuse to forget.”

Ai Weiwei also has being using Twitter to re-publisize names of students died in the collapsed schools in the Sichuan earthquake. The following screenshot is from blogger ijay:

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