为何中国政府害怕这位艺术家？ But first, why is Chinese government afraid of this artist?
故事这就开始 This story begins now.
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谁害怕艾未未？ Who's afraid of Ai Weiwei?
要找到他，你需要在北京效区行驶很长时间 To find him, you have to take a long ride to be outskirts of Beijing.
这就是最近这些年我一直在做的事 That's what I've been doing for the last few years.
作为一名自由职业记者与电影制作人 As a freelance journalist and filmmaker,
我一直与一位中国最神秘的人物之一共事 I've been spending time with one of the most intriguing people in China.
他就是艾未未 His name is Ai Weiwei.
这些年来，他成为了中国首位有全球影响力的艺术明星 In recent years, he's emerged as China's first global art star,
来自全世界的博物馆都在展示他的纪念性雕塑 with museums all accoss the world showcasing his monumental sculpture,
刺激性的照片以及木制装置 provocative photography, and board installations.
今年则是葵花籽 This year it was sunflower seeds.
总共有一亿颗 One hundred million of them,
全都是瓷制的，完全由手工打造 all made from porcelain, each one painted by hand,
装满了伦敦泰特现代博物馆的轮机大厅 filling the gaint Turbine Hall at London's Tate Modern Museum.
让人看到了艾未未作为艺术英雄的光芒 A spectacle that reminded sun of Weiwei's artistic hero.
（陈丹青）在我的一篇文章中，我把他称为是 CHEN DANQING: In one of my article, I describe him as
北京版的一个安迪·沃霍尔 "Beijing Andy Warhol."
他从根子里面就是自由的 Freedom is part of his nature.
他从来不怕这些 He never fears anything.
他想怎么说就怎么说 He says whatever he wants.
无论作为艺术家还是挑战者 Both artist and provocateur, there is no one in today's China
在当今中国无人能有他这样的影响力 generating quite this kind of attention.
（欧逸文）他可能是中国在世者中 EVAN OSNOS: He's probably the most documented
被记载最多的公共活动家 Chinese public figure alive.
中国还没有其他人 I mean there's never really been somebody in China
能有他的这些特质 who has this combination of qualities.
十年前，艾未未在北京的这处村庄定居下来 Ten years ago, Ai Weiwei settled in this village outside Beijing.
并由他亲自设计 Transforming it with galleries and studio spaces
把这变成画廊与工作室 that he designed himself.
自从我最初见到他起 When I first began visiting him,
我发现无论他最新的计划是什么 I discovered that whatever his latest project,
他总是沉迷于记录自己的日常生活 Ai Weiwei was always obsessively documenting his daily life.
几年前，他开始将这些传到网络上 A few years back, he began posting it all online.
我就在他的博客中出现过40多次 I showed up on his blog over 40 times.
我还发现作为艺术家的艾未未开始用他的键盘 I also found Weiwei the artist had been communist provocative
挑战共产党政府 with his keyboard
每天都在网上抨击 to typing out a daily diatribe
政府的腐败与渎职 against local corruption and government abuses.
（洪晃）艾未未通过网络 HUNG HUANG: Weiwei's Internet has created probably
可能是他一生中最为庞大的追随者 the biggest following he's ever had in his life.
这些人中有服务员 I think he had people who are waiters, waitresses,
以及其他普通的中国人 he has a lot of just average Chinese who are following him
他们跟随他正是因为他为他们的利益说话 because he was speaking their mind, he was speaking up for them.
（艾未未）我参与政治是出于个人的原因 AI WEIWEI: My political involvement is real personal,
如果你不出声、不清楚地思考，那你是谁呢？ if you don'ts speak out, you don't clear your mind, then who are you?
（欧逸文）有时他们在网上称他为“艾神” OSNOS: In some cases they call him "Ai Shen" online,
you know, "Holy Ai" or "Ai God".
这在中国是很危险的称呼 You know, It's a very dangerous description in China.
随着中国准备举办2008年奥运会 Ai Weiwei's activism took a major public turn
艾未未开始更多地参与公共事务 as China prepare to host 2008 Olympics.
艾未未曾在瑞士建筑公司工作 Weiwei has worked for the Swiss architecture firm
参与设计了了北京奥运会的标志性建筑 to design the signature building of the Game's
鸟巢国家体育场 - the Bird's Nest Stadium.
但随着比赛临近 But as the Game's approached, he [unclear],
他把奥运会称为“假笑” calling the Olympics a "fake smile"
并认为奥运是中国对全世界的欺骗 that China was putting on for the rest of the world.
（欧逸文）奥运会向他和全世界展示的 OSNOS: The Olympis was presented to him and presented to the world
融合与开放 as an act of integration and openness,
成为了庆祝中国共产党 they were being turned into a moment of celebration
领导的时刻 of the leadership of the Chinese Communist Party,
而他不想成为其中的一份子 and he didn't want to be a part of that.
艾未未拒绝去参加开幕式 Ai Weiwei refused to attend the opening ceremony.
（陈丹青）中国人的批评都是很温和的，而且是很技巧的 CHEN: Typical Chinese critis are mild in their words.
他不会直接说共产党 They never directly speak out against
不会直接说政府 the Communist Party of the government.
直接骂这个社会 The would never directly curse this society.
但是艾未未不一样 But Ai Weiwei is different.
艾未未就是痛骂 He will scold them.
他用最攻击性的词汇 He uses the most aggressive words
说这个社会非常黑暗 to point out society's dark side.
政府起初对艾未未的行为并没有作出反应 The government stayed carelessly quiet about Ai Weiwei.
所以他继续他对艺术与行动主义的追求 So he continued to presue his art and activism.
有一天，他向我透露了他的下一个计划 Then one day, he wanted to tell me about his next big project.
（艾未未）我有个故事，不知道你是否有兴趣 AI: I have a story, I don't know if you're interested.
他说这个新的计划将是对 He said the new project would be a response to this,
2008年5月四川大地震的反应 the earthquake that devastated in Sichuan Province in May, 2008.
约有7万人在地震中遇难 Some 70 thousand people were killed,
许多粗制滥造的政府建筑与学校倒塌了 when poorly built government buildings and schools collapsed.
（艾未未）映秀他们是在…… AI: Where is Yingxiu?
当他亲自前往灾区时 When he toward wreckage for himself,
他对政府的渎职十分恼怒 he was outraged at the lack of government responsibility.
艾未未特别对学校里孩子们的遇难感到痛心 Weiwei's eye was especically drown to the death of the school children,
而政府则拒绝透露他们的名字 whose name the government refused to release.
（艾未未）这实在是太疯狂了 AI: This is absolutely crazy.
这些人可是有名字的 Come on, those people have names, you know.
我们前往许多政府机关打听 So we checked every office possible,
但他们没有人告诉我们哪怕一个名字 none of them would give us single name of who's that.
艾未未在他的博客上发起了行动 Weiwei put out a call to action on his blog.
大量回复蜂拥而来 I think there was overwhelming response.
他向志愿者提供摄像机在四川拍摄 He gave cameras to volunteers to film in Sichuan,
于是他们便对地震死难者 as they begin what he called a "citizen investigation"
开始了他所说的“公民调查” into the earthquake death.
（志愿者）当时伤亡有多少人你们知道吗？ VOLUNTEER: How many casualties were there?
（儿童）好像是94人 CHILDREN: About 94.
志愿者们，不论老少 Volunteers, young and old,
开始在当地官员处打探孩子们的名字 began haunting local officials for the children's names.
（志愿者）那个……旋口中学 VOLUNTEER: How many at Xuankou Middle School?
（官员）旋口中学43 OFFICIAL: 43 dead at Xuankou.
（志愿者）43？ VOLUNTEER: 43?
（志愿者）……是多少了？ VOLUNTEER: How many names do we have now?
接着有更多的志愿者将这些名字传到网上 Then more volunteers posted the names online.
（志愿者）4546个 VOLUNTEER: 4546.
（欧逸文）在中国靠自己的力量 OSNOS: The act of organizing people into a community in China
组织民众是相当危险的事情 is in itself a very risky thing to do,
而他则投身到这样的事业中去 and he has dedicated himself to doing excatly that.
像他这样的人是很少的 That puts him into a very small community of people.
最终，艾未未的队伍共发布了超过5000个名字 In the end, Weiwei's team published more than five thousand names,
其中包括了几乎所有的遇难学生 including the names of almost all the students.
这一行为引起了国际上的关注 The project drew international attention.
同时这也使得政府的网络审查 It also promote the government's Internent sensors
开始格外关注艾未未的博客 who are now paying more attention to Weiwei's blog.
（艾未未）大概有二三十篇文章 AI: Maybe 20, 30 articles had been taken down
被网络警察或其他官方部门撤下了 by Internet police or by different authorities.
我不知道他们接下来除了关闭我的博客外还能干什么？ I don't know what can they do than shut down my blog?
这正是政府在2009年5月所做的事 It was excatly the gorvenment did in May, 2009
随着地震周年纪念日的临近 as the anniversary of the earthquake approached.
他们还有其他一些举动 And then they did something else.
（杨）这是其中一个摄像头 INSERK YANG: So this is one of the cameras.
我想这正好对准了我们入口处的大门 I think it probably looks at our entry, at the main door.
Inserk Yang是艾未未长期以来的艺术助理 Inserk Yang, Weiwei's long-time artist assistant,
他向我指出了新的监视摄像头 shows me the new surveillance cameras.
（杨）那个角落还有一个摄像头 YANG: Over there, the corner's another camera.
艾未未很快就用自己的摄像头对准了政府的摄像头 Weiwei quickly turned his own camera back on the government,
他拍了照片并将其传到了自己的推特上 getting the photos out on his twitter feed,
还通过他的艺术创作来表现这些摄像头 and incorporating the caremas into his artworks.
（杨）这就是他的生活 YANG: It's basiclly his life.
他对待艺术、建筑或政治活动 And he didn't make big difference between
的态度并没有很大区别 art and architecture and political activities, you know,
重要的是能不能使他感兴趣 it's just whether it interests him or it doesn't.
（艾未未）他们正在监视我 AI: Here, they're watching me.
另外在他家门外还停有定期监视他的车辆 And then there is the surveillance van periodically parked outside his home.
（陈爱丽）他在那睡觉吗？ ALISON KLAYMAN: Is he sleeping in there?
（艾未未）没错，他整晚都在那 AI: Yeah, ... whole night.
（欧逸文）他并没有遵守一种约定俗成的习惯 OSNOS: He didn't in anyway abide by the implicit rules of that relationship,
就是说你应该假装 which is that you're supposed to pretend that
你不知道自己正在被跟踪 you don't know you're being followed and
而他们则假装自己不在跟踪你 they're supposed to pretend they are not following you.
（艾未未）许多人都说中国改变了许多 AI: Everyboy said China changed a lot,
但对我来说，许多方面根本没有改变 to me it doesn't change in certain sense and
包括我最为看重的 that's what I've valued most, you know,
诸如言论自由、思想解放 such as freedom of speech, and, you know,
都没有改变 the liberation of the mind, and, you know, ... never change.
艾未未并没有停止他的地震行动 Weiwei didn't give up his earthquake project.
2009年夏天，他回到四川 In the summer of 2009, he had back to Sichuan Province
声援一位被政府关押的 to support a local earthquake activist
调查地震的活动人士（谭作人） who'd be jailed by the government.
艾未未对外公布了他的计划 Weiwei spread the word and mass of his followers
因而有许多他的跟随者到四川参加审判 made the trip to Sichuan to attend the man's trial.
在艾未未准备上庭的前一天晚上 They gathered at a hotel the night before
他们在一家宾馆聚集 Weiwei is going to show up in court.
当地政府得知了此事 That's when local officials found out.
艾未未的朋友、摇滚乐手左小祖咒 Weiwei's friend, the rock musician Zuoxiao Zuzhou,
当时正在隔壁房间 was in the room next door.
（左小祖咒）大约三点钟的时候 ZUOXIAO ZUZHOU: At about 3 o'clock, we heard
啊，嘟嘟嘟…… bang, bang, bang, bang.
（艾未未）谁啊？ AI: Who is there?
（警察）警察 POLICE: Police.
（艾未未）什么警察？ AI: What police?
（警察）派出所的警察 POLICE: From the local station.
（艾未未）派出所的警察晚上敲门干吗？ AI: Why are local cops knocking on doors at this hour?
（左小祖咒）他准备了这个……录音笔 ZUOXIAO: He turned on a small audio recorder.
他知道这个后面要有很大的事情要发生 He knew that something big was going to happen.
（艾未未）打人是吗？ AI: You're hitting me?
你打人吗？ You brought all these cops to beat me?
（警察）说话要讲证据 POLICE: Don't speak without evidence.
（艾未未）…… AI: How did my clothes get torn?
（警察）你自己撕的 POLICE: You did it yourself.
有警察击中了艾未未的头部 Weiwei had been hit in the head by the police,
但他们指责是他自己造成了伤害 but they blamed him for his own injures.
（艾未未）自己撕的……我自己打的自己？ AI: I tore my own clothes and beat myself?
（警察）对 POLICE: Right.
在宾馆电梯中，被警察包围的艾未未 In the hotel elevator, surounded by police,
拍下了这张照片 Weiwei snaped this photo, then he tweeted it
并通过推特传播给了他在全世界各地的跟随者 to his online followers who got around the world.
（陈丹青）而大家更感兴趣的是为什么他这样批评 CHEN: Everyone was curious why this guy could be
他没有事情 critical, but nothing bad happened to him.
所以逻辑上，他最后到了公安局被人打 So logically he was finally beatn up by the police.
这个是大家在担心的一件事情 That's what everyone was worried about.
或者是预期的……总有一天这将会发生 Or expecting ... one day it's going to happen.
接着这便发生了 Then It happened.
一个月后，艾未未在慕尼黑举办了一个新的大型展览 A month later, Weiwei opened a major new exhibition in Munich.
这也是他至今为止最大的个人展，展出了他的许多代表作 It was his biggest sole show yet, featuring many signature works.
但在开幕之前，艾未未感到了头痛 But just before the opening, Weiwei began complaining of a headache.
他被送入医院救治 He was rushed to the hospital.
手术中医生发现他的脑部在流血 In emergency surgery, doctors found bleeding in his brain,
推测是由他当时在宾馆房间中被打导致的 presumably from the beating in the hotel room.
（左小祖咒）对于艾未未这样的一个活着的时候 ZUOXIAO: For Ai Weiwei, an artist who is more famous
比安迪·沃霍尔还要出名的艺术家来说 than Andy Warhol was in his lifetime,
他不需要做这种事情 he doesn't need to do these kinds of things.
做这样的事情是相当地危险 These things are actually very dangerous.
手术后在他的病房内 In his hospital recovery room,
艾未未给在中国与他遭遇的警察发去信息 Weiwei sent a message to the police back in China
并把照片上传到网上 then he uploaded the photos for his followers.
（艾未未）有些照片完全改变了历史 AI: Some photos right moment completely change the history.
因为照片说出了真相，无论大小 To tell the truth, no matter big truth or small truth
正义也得以伸张 is always a ... should be justified.
在慕尼黑的展览继续举办 The show in Munich went on.
博物馆的表面被 It was capped by a gaint installation
孩子们的背包所覆盖 covering the museum's facade with children's backpacks
正如艾未未在四川所见到的 just like the one Weiwei has seen in Sichuan.
这些背包组成了一句话 The backpacks spelled out a sentence talked to him
是一位在地震中遇雄的孩子的母亲跟他说的 by the mother of an earthquake victim.
这句话是 It read, simply,
“她在这个世界上开心地生活过七年” "She lived happily on this earth for seven years."
（陈丹青）他很精彩 CHEN: He is very brilliant.
就是他能够把他直接的反应 He can take his own response and
很自然地变成作品 very naturally turn it into art.
但同时当代艺术又没有人是这样做的 Who else in contemporary art does this?
不久前，回到北京的家中 Later, back home in Beijing,
艾未未的母亲得知了他儿子被打的消息 Weiwei's own mother would deal with the news of his son's beating.
（高瑛/艾未未母亲）：这你的脑？ GAO YING(AI'S MOTHER):This is your brain?
（艾未未）这我的脑 AI: Yes.
（陈爱丽）你看好多文章关于你的儿子 KLAYMAN: How do you feel when you see
感觉怎么样？ so many articles about your son?
（高瑛）感觉很娇傲、很自豪 GAO: I feel very proud.
因为他会为老百姓可以说话 Because he speaks out for the average citizen.
他就是在农场长大的 He grew up in the countryside.
艾未未跟我们过了很长的一段很艰苦的日子 Ai weiwei was with us through a long and difficult peroid.
很困苦 A very bitter time.
在艾未未的成长阶段 When Ai Weiwei was growing up, his father, Ai Qing,
他的父亲艾青被打成右派 had been branded a class enemy,
全家都被放逐到中国西部 and the family was exiled to the western China.
在那里艾未未看着他的父亲 There, Weiwei watched his father,
中国最知名的诗人之一 one of the country's most famous poets,
在文化大革命中被迫打扫厕所 reduced to clean toilets during the Cultural Revolution.
同时他还看到他的父亲保持了反抗的精神 Weiwei also saw his father maintain his spirit of resistance.
现在轮到艾未未的母亲要担心他的儿子 A family now Weiwei's mother worried about his son.
（高瑛）天天睡不好觉 GAO: Every night I can't sleep.
（艾未未）那干吗呀，没必要是伐 AI: What are you doing there's no need to..
（高瑛）我担心他们能够欺负你 GAO: I'm worried they'll rough you up.
欺负我那是肯定要欺负的 If they want to get me, they will...
这不是咱们自己能够解决的事情 we can't control that.
这些人…… Those people...
（洪晃）我认识的其他中国艺术家 HUNG: Most of the other Chinese artists I know have gone on
有了漂亮的房子和车子 to having very nice houses, fancy cars,
我想他们不会做任何会影响他们生活的事 and I don't think they will do anything to damage their lifestyle.
而艾未未为了他所信仰的事 Weiwei would put his life on the line
甘愿冒生命的危险 for something that he believes it.
在近一年半后 After almost a year and half,
艾未未仍旧不放弃他关于地震的活动 Weiwei still wouldn't drop his earthquake campaign.
2010年4月，他回到四川 In April 2010, he went back to confront the police in Sichuan
与那些曾在宾馆房间中打他的警察对质 who had beaten him in his hotel room.
这次除了带着律师之外 This time he didn't just bring a lawyer,
他还带来了他的私人摄影师赵赵、我 he brought his personal photographer Zhaozhao, me,
两位中国电影制作人、一位《纽约客》记者 two Chinese filmmakers, a New Yorker reporter,
以及一些助理帮他在推特上直播事件经过 and several assistants to post live to twitter.
（艾未未）我来是控告对我的伤害 AI: I've come to file a complaint about my injury.
（欧逸文）如果有一位理智的观众走进现场，而不知道此刻正发生什么 OSNOS: To a reasonable viewer who walked in and didn't know what's going on,
他会认为这里正在进行一场真人秀 he would haved assumed it was some kind of reality show.
（欧逸文）你对结果有期待吗？ OSNOS: Are you expecting a successful result?
（艾未未）没有 AI: The result, I don't think so.
（欧逸文）我问他为何花了整整一个下午 OSNOS: I asked him why he bothers to go through this process,
去履行他早已知道 he was wasting basically the whole afternoon
不会有结果的程序 on a process that he knew was ultimately doomed.
他说，你不能看着这个充满缺陷的体制而无动于衷 And he said, "Well, you can'ts just see that system is flawed,
你必须去参与这个体制 you have to work through the system and
并将他的细节揭示出来 show it in all its detail, that's the only way
只有这样你才能去评判这一体制 you can ultimately make a critique."
整个下午 Over the course of the afternoon,
他都在推持上说 he'd been twittering about the fact he was gonna
晚上他会去一家老妈蹄花餐馆 have dinner that night at a Laoma Tihua restaurant,
这里供应一种特制的猪蹄 which is a place that specializes in a certain type of pig's trotter.
当我们到餐厅时 And as soon as we got to the restaurant,
感到很奇怪 it was this weird sensation where all sudden these people
有很多人站在街边 who had been standing on the sidewalk,
观望或做着其他事情 milling around, doing things,
后来才知道这些人是来与他聚餐的人 turned out to be people who that came to have dinner with him.
那里的每个人都知道仅仅是在那吃饭 And everyboy there knew that by simply eating dinner there
就是一种反抗的行为 was an act of defiance.
（推友）艾老师是伐？ TWITTER FAN: Teacher Ai?
（艾未未）对对 AI: Yes.
（推友）推友 TWITTER FAN: I follow you on Twitter.
（艾未未）请坐，请坐 AI: Have a seat...
（推友）不不，不坐了 TWITTER FAN: I'm not staying, I just
看一下心满意足了 wanted to catch a glimpse.
推友 Twitter Fan.
（艾未未）谢谢啊 AI: Thank you.
之后警察出现了 [unclear] city police showed up and asked Weiwei
他们让艾未未到室内去聚餐 to move the party indoors.
（艾未未）我们大概吃完了，马上就走啊 AI: We're almost done eating.
不过他机智地打发了他们 But he outmaneuvered them.
大老远来就觉得你们成都 We think your food here in Chengdu is
在外面吃饭好吃 especially tasty when eaten outside.
从北京过来的 We came all the way from Beijing.
而当警察开始拍摄我们时 Then when the police started filming us,
艾未未把他的摄像师赵赵派去拍他们 Weiwei sent his own photographer Zhaozhao to record them.
（陈丹青）你看他有流氓的一面 CHEN: Weiwei has a little hooligan inside of him.
就是他知道怎么对付流氓 So he knows how to deal with other hooligans.
因为共产党就是流氓嘛，绝对是流氓 Because the Communist Party as just hooligans, really.
所以你必须也差不多是个流氓 So you have to turn yourself into a hooligan as well.
之后的几个月 Over the months that followed,
双方又有了更多的遭遇 there would be more encounters.
艾未未曾短暂地被软禁在家 Weiwei was briefly put under a home arrest.
而从去年末起 And at the end of last year,
他开始尝试离开这个国家 he was start trying to leave the country.
到了一月，发生了这个 Then in January, this happened.
艾未未在上海的新工作室被政府拆除 Weiwei's new studio complex in Shanghai was bulldozed by the government.
这工作室花了艾未未两年时间建造 The studio had taken Weiwei two years to build.
他做出了反应，将被毁坏的情况在网上直播 His response was to show the demolition live online.
之后他发布了自己最有力的作品之一 Then he declared one of his most powerful artworks ever.
（陈爱丽）你有没有问过自己 KLAYMAN: Do you ever exam yourslef to say
为何与他人相比你那么无所畏惧？ why you are so fearless compare to other people?
（艾未未）其实我很害怕，而不是无所畏惧 AI: I was so fearful, that's not fearless.
我大概比其他人更害怕 I'm more fearful then other people, maybe.
我知道那些实实在在的威胁，因而我只能更加勇敢地行动 Then I act more brave because I know the danger's really there.
如果你不行动，那威胁将会更为可怕 If you don't act, the danger become stronger.