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What's common between India and China?
Updated On: 15 April, 2012 11:06 AM IST | | Phorum Dalal
Clark House is showing four films by Chinese contemporary artiste Ai Weiwei. These films question the excesses of the system and were shot using cameras placed in his home, even as his interrogators followed him around and placed him under surveillance
If you log on to Weiweicam (.com), you’ll see a blank website, as it was aborted within 46 hours of its launch on April 3, this year. This is why — after an 81-day police detention last April for his belief that a stance on political and social issues was an artiste’s moral prerogative — this year, Chinese contemporary artiste Ai Weiwei launched the website, where four web cameras streamed his activities live onto the Internet in an attempt to ease the efforts of continuous surveillance by his tormentors.

A still from So Sorry
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