Dropping 40 and half hours pt. I

Dropping 40 and a half hours

 

 

This is a remake of Ai Weiwei’s Dropping a Han dynasty urn. Ai Weiwei spent thousands of dollars on the Han dynasty urn that he recklessly broke to provoke and criticise the Chinese government.

We wanted to criticise Ai Weiwei on how he spent thousands of dollar by showing us dropping personal value and effort. We spend cumulatively 40 and half hours between research, class hours and creating our personal urn and then we dropped it and broke it.

 

We also filmed the process of creating the urn and showed it also in as a projection to give context about out remake.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0ecII7qFq6Y

 

 

initial sketch of the urn

 

 

 

We kept the same format as Ai Weiwei, with three pictures of the process of dropping the urn in black and white.