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1 This fragment, like all other passages printed in roman type, is taken from a portrait of WW I wrote in 2008. It was published in Elena Ochoa Foster, Hans Ulrich Obrist, eds., Ways beyond Art: Ai Weiwei (London, Madrid: Ivorypress, 2009). I regard them as footnotes accompanying the fragments printed in italics.
2 The fragments printed in italics update the portrait to the year 2013. I regard them as footnotes accompanying the fragments printed in roman type. They are based on the countless conversations WW and I had over the course of eighteen years, from 1996 to 2013. The text was published in this form in German in Susanne Gaensheimer, ed., Ai Weiwei, Romuald Karmakar, Santu Mofokeng, Dayanita Singh: Deutscher Pavillon (Berlin: Gestalten, 2013).
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