A question posted on Facebook about what we, as an arts
community, can do to support the safe release of Ai Weiwei sparked great ideas, including one by curator Steven Holmes to reenact Ai Weiwei’s project Fairytale: 1,001 Qing Dynasty Wooden Chairs—an installation which was comprised of 1,001 late Ming and Qing Dynasty wooden chairs at Documenta 12 in 2007 in Kassel, Germany—in front of...
[read more] A question posted on Facebook about what we, as an arts
community, can do to support the safe release of Ai Weiwei sparked great ideas, including one by curator Steven Holmes to reenact Ai Weiwei’s project Fairytale: 1,001 Qing Dynasty Wooden Chairs—an installation which was comprised of 1,001 late Ming and Qing Dynasty wooden chairs at Documenta 12 in 2007 in Kassel, Germany—in front of Chinese embassies and consulates around the world. This Sunday, April 17, at 1 PM local time, supporters are invited to participate in 1001 Chairs for Ai Weiwei, by bringing a chair and gathering outside Chinese embassies and consulates to sit peacefully in support of the artist’s immediate release.
Artist and activist Ai Weiwei is an internationally regarded figure who has fought for artistic freedom and for freedom of speech throughout his distinguished career, envisioning and shaping a more just and equitablesociety through his work. He has been missing since his arrest on April 3rd in Beijing. Referencing the spirit of his work, 1001 Chairs for Ai Weiwei calls for his immediate release, supporting the right of artists to speak and work freely in China and around the world.
Local embassies and consulates:
New York:
Consulate General of the People’s Republic of China
520 12th Avenue
Manhattan
Stockholm:
Kinesiska ambassaden
Lidovägen 8
115 25 Stockholm
(Bus 69, next to the Ethnographic Museum)
London:
Chinesse Embassy
49 Portland Place , London W1B 1JL
Paris:
Chinese Embassy
11, av. George V, 75008 Paris.
Boston:
McCormackBuilding, Room 1719,One Ashburton Place
Boston, MA 02108, (617)-727-2832
Chicago:
100 West Erie Street, Chicago, IL
Tokyo:
4-33 Moto-Azabu 3-Chome, Minato-Ku, Tokyo, 1060046,
Berlin:
Botschaft der Volksrepublik China in Berlin
Märkisches Ufer 54, 10179 Berlin
Rio de Janeiro:
Rua Muniz Barreto, Nº 715, Botafogo, Rio de Janeiro, RJ
San Francisco:
1450 Laguna Street (at Geary)
Los Angeles:
The Chinese Consulate General in Los Angeles
443 Shatto Place, Los Angeles,
CA 90020
Toronto:
General Consulate
240 ST.GEORGE STREET
TORONTO, ONTARIO, CANADA, M5R 2P4
Oslo:
Chinese Emabssy
Holmenveien 5, Vinderen,Oslo
Bern:
Kalcheggweg 10, CH-3006 Bern
Vienna:
Neulinggasse 29/1/11, 1030 Wien
Lisbon:
R. do Pau de Bandeira, n.º 11, 1200 Lisboa
Athens:
Chinese Embassy
Krinon 2A, Paleo Psychico, 15452 Athens
São Paulo:
Rua Estados Unidos, 1071 - Jardim América
São Paulo, 01427-000
Hong Kong:
China Liason office, Entrance on Connaught Road West. Central. (The location of the "Free Ai Wei Wei" march last Sunday), Hong Kong, S.A.R., China.
München
Generalkonsulat der Volksrepublik China
Romanstraße 107, 80639 München
Moscow:
Посольство Китая: ул. Дружбы д.6.
Chinese Embassy: Ul. Druzhby 6.
Bucharest:
Ambasada Republicii Populare Chineze in Romania
sos. Nordului nr. 2, Sector 1, Bucuresti
Barcelona:
Avenida Tibidabo No.34
Havana:
Calle 13, no.551 e/ C y D, Vedado.
Madrid:
Calle Arturo Soria, 113
Brussels:
Chinese Embassy, 443-445 Avenue de Tervuren, 1150 Woluwe Saint-Pierre, Brussels
Seoul:
54, Hyoja-Dong, Jongno-Gu, Seoul, 110033, Korea
Sydney:
Chinese Consulat: 39 Dunblane Street, Camperdown NSW 2050
Washington DC:
3505 International Pl NW
Washington D.C., District of Columbia 20008
(202) 966-0697
Reykjavík:
Kínverska sendiráðið, Víðimel 29, 107 Reykjavík, Iceland.
Calgary:
The Consulate-General of the People's Republic of China in Calgary, Suite 100, 1011-6th Ave. S. W. Calgary, Alberta T2P 0W1
Houston:
Chinese Consulate General
3417 Montrose Blvd
Houston, TX 77006
Hamburg:
Volksrepublik China Generalkonsulat
Elbchaussee 26822605 Hamburg
Melbourne:
75-77 IRVING ROAD, TOORAK,MELBOURNE, VICTORIA 314
Mexico City:
Embajada de la República Popular ChinaAv. Río Magdalena 172Col. Tizapán San Angel, 01090 México, D.F.
Barbados:
NO.17, GOLF VIEW TERRACE, GOLF CLUB ROAD, ROCKLEY, CHRIST CHURCH, BARBADOS
Copenhagen:
Chinese Embassy
Øregårds Allé 25, 2900 Hellup
