# Ai Weiwei's stacked bicycles
**URL:** https://fixed.org.au/t/ai-weiweis-stacked-bicycles/60054
**Category:** Linkblog
**Created:** [January 18, 2013, 12:50am UTC](https://fixed.org.au/t/ai-weiweis-stacked-bicycles/60054 "2013-01-18T00:50:37Z")
**Posts on this page:** 10
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### Author:  [@shortsie](https://fixed.org.au/u/shortsie)
#### Post date: [January 21, 2013, 3:05pm UTC](https://fixed.org.au/t/ai-weiweis-stacked-bicycles/60054/21 "2013-01-21T15:05:54Z")
Also, It really makes my squirm when people get up on their moral fucking highhorse and say “Those bikes should have gone to _insert poor country here_”
He can do whatever the fuck he want with the bicycles. How about YOU do something if you feel so strongly about it. Dont be so fucking condscending.
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### Author:  [@AL9000](https://fixed.org.au/u/AL9000)
#### Post date: [January 21, 2013, 3:08pm UTC](https://fixed.org.au/t/ai-weiweis-stacked-bicycles/60054/22 "2013-01-21T15:08:24Z")
> [@shortsie](#):
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> Also, It really makes my squirm when people get up on their moral fucking highhorse and say “Those bikes should have gone to _insert poor country here_”
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> He can do whatever the fuck he want with the bicycles. How about YOU do something if you feel so strongly about it. Dont be so fucking condscending.
Shortsie, all those characters you just typed should have gone to an illiterate person. What a waste.
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### Author:  [@shortsie](https://fixed.org.au/u/shortsie)
#### Post date: [January 21, 2013, 3:10pm UTC](https://fixed.org.au/t/ai-weiweis-stacked-bicycles/60054/23 "2013-01-21T15:10:32Z")
Zing, Blakey. Zing.
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### Author:  [@droz](https://fixed.org.au/u/droz)
#### Post date: [January 21, 2013, 4:05pm UTC](https://fixed.org.au/t/ai-weiweis-stacked-bicycles/60054/24 "2013-01-21T16:05:27Z")
> [@spirito](#):
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> I still don’t get the logic. Maybe we should switch off FOA and divert our time/energies to helping out at soup kitchen’s and homeless shelter’s?
Idealogically yes. To be honest I’m quite disappointed by the responses here to a simple, blindly optimistic proposition.
I’ll just leave this one.
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### Author:  [@Balki](https://fixed.org.au/u/Balki)
#### Post date: [January 21, 2013, 4:43pm UTC](https://fixed.org.au/t/ai-weiweis-stacked-bicycles/60054/25 "2013-01-21T16:43:20Z")
This dude has nothing on Vargas.
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### Author:  [@shortsie](https://fixed.org.au/u/shortsie)
#### Post date: [January 21, 2013, 4:45pm UTC](https://fixed.org.au/t/ai-weiweis-stacked-bicycles/60054/26 "2013-01-21T16:45:00Z")
The statement was not an optimistic proposition. It was disappointment the the bicycles were not used in a more “charitable” way. If it were optimistic the statement would have been.
“Woundnt it be wonderful if the bicycles were donated after the exhibition”
Charity is important. i dont dipute this, but good art is also important.
thats all.
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### Author:  [@DICE](https://fixed.org.au/u/DICE)
#### Post date: [January 21, 2013, 11:44pm UTC](https://fixed.org.au/t/ai-weiweis-stacked-bicycles/60054/27 "2013-01-21T23:44:08Z")
> [@Blakey](#):
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> who says it’s a permanent exhibit or that the frames will be scrapped once it’s over?
That piece will most certainly be permanent. It will probably be sold already to a large private collector or maybe a museum, if not it will certainly be for sale. Ai Weiwei’s work is seriously sort after.
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Bikes, Ming vases, antique Chinese furniture - these are all material used in Weiwei’s work. In a literal sense they are often destroyed in the process. Are they a waste ? Most certainly not. Comments claiming that they are are made from a position of privilage and ignorance. Privilage, in being from a society wherein freedom of information, speech and movement are taken for granted. Ignorance, in not understanding the context out of which the work was created, and not having a knowledge of the artist’s oeurve; and more alarmingly, implying that art or other forms of self-expression are somehow pointless and unnecessary. Art like Weiwei’s is insightful and clever. He is one of a rare few voices that is able to provide a mirror to contemporary Chinese culture.
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### Author:  [@droz](https://fixed.org.au/u/droz)
#### Post date: [January 22, 2013, 12:27am UTC](https://fixed.org.au/t/ai-weiweis-stacked-bicycles/60054/28 "2013-01-22T00:27:04Z")
> [@drozzy](#):
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> (or prospective use after this installation has finished)
You mean, that bit? Like, in the thing I wrote. Like, before you. Right?
Edit: Where is that paragraph about Wei Wei from?
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### Author:  [@shortsie](https://fixed.org.au/u/shortsie)
#### Post date: [January 22, 2013, 4:52pm UTC](https://fixed.org.au/t/ai-weiweis-stacked-bicycles/60054/29 "2013-01-22T16:52:39Z")
> [@drozzy](#):
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> You mean, that bit? Like, in the thing I wrote. Like, before you. Right?
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> Edit: Where is that paragraph about Wei Wei from?
No, i read that. It doesnt change what i think of your statement.
That Wei Wei statement is great, where from too?
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### Author:  [@Balki](https://fixed.org.au/u/Balki)
#### Post date: [January 22, 2013, 5:04pm UTC](https://fixed.org.au/t/ai-weiweis-stacked-bicycles/60054/30 "2013-01-22T17:04:25Z")
Waste of Ming
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