The Art of Dissent By #Laura_Poitras
Laura Poitras documents the dissidents Ai Weiwei and Jacob Appelbaum as they collaborate on an #art project.
The project’s title, “Panda to Panda,” is the synthesis of two terms created by dissident cultures. The slang term for the secret police in China is “panda,” which is a censorship-evading Mandarin homonym: “national security” sounds like “national treasure,” a.k.a. the panda. “Panda to Panda” also refers to peer-to-peer communication (#P2P), a method of decentralized networking and a philosophy of egalitarian human interaction on the Internet.
Like the red lanterns Ai hung under every surveillance camera the government installed outside his studio, “Panda to Panda” playfully acknowledges and rejects state power.
▻http://www.nytimes.com/2015/06/09/opinion/the-art-of-dissent.html
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