AI Weiwei: Manifesto Without Borders

Artist and activist Ai Weiwei is famous around the world.He builds bridges through art and has been fighting to create, maintain and grow passageways for communication almost all his life.From single objects like Coca Cola Vase to structures like Forever Bicycles to installations like Sunflower Seeds, Ai Weiwei's art is displayed publicly in numerous countries; renowned museums are desperate to get their hands on his artifacts.But who is the person behind the international label 'Ai Weiwei', and what drives his restless creative mind?Ai Weiwei was born in 1957 to Chinese poet and government critic Ai Quing and grew up in Manchuria and Xinjiang, where his father was exiled, before later relocating to the United States.In 2011 now back in China he was prevented from leaving the country and imprisoned for 81 days. Shaped by these early experiences, Ai Weiwei began to feel like an outsider at an early age.It is this existential feeling of displacement that Ai Weiwei transforms into the uni