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Ai Weiwei: Acting Is Believing

On 22 June 2011, after 81 days of incarceration in an undisclosed location, Chinese artist Ai Weiwei was released on bail, having allegedly confessed his crime of tax evasion. Ai’s release followed a huge international campaign to free him and came just a day before the Chinese premiere Wen Jiaboa left for state visits to the UK, Germany, and Hungary. Ai’s emergence from his arrest to reunite with his family opened the second act of a global performance that has been raging since his initial “disappearance” on 3 April 2011. Doubtlessly, the key players in this global performance, including the Western media, art communities, and governments, the Chinese CCP leadership, and Ai Weiwei himself, will continue to write the second act from their ongoing real-life actions with new points of public interest, but at this transitional moment, no interpretation regarding these key players’ motivations, calculations, and strategies provides conclusive evidence as to how the second act will unfold.