Interview with Li Zhanyang Location: Ai Weiwei’s Studio, Caochangdi (Beijing) Ai Weiwei (Ai): Li Zhanyang, is today November 14, 2007? Or is it the 13 th? Li Zhanyang (Li): The 14th. It’s raining. Ai:  I think the rain turned into snow. It stopped raining. The snow should be warmer. Zhanyang, where were you born, what year? Li:  1969.  Ai:   We share the same zodiac sign. You’re 12 years... 

A talk with Li Zhanyang about ‘Rent’ – Rent Collection Yard September 25, 2007 Chongqing Studio Nataline Colonnello: ‘Rent’ – Rent Collection Yard is a large-scale sculptural installation that you were eventually able to produce only very recently, although you have been developing its concept throughout the last decade. It took you almost two years of painstaking work to accomplish the... 

A Record of Plain Lust – An Interview with Li Zhanyang by Li Xianting Li Xianting (LXT): Let’s start with your graduation work for your MA Degree. Before your viva voce, Sui Jianguo, your supervisor, sent you to show me pictures of your work and the outline of your MA thesis for advice, as I had done some detailed research on the history of Chinese traditional sculptures. Li Zhanyang (LZY): Right. LXT:... 

Interview Li Zhanyang  Gao Minglu: Have you had your works exhibited intensively formerly? Li Zhanyang:I have participated in large-scale exhibition twice before. One is “Door of Century”, and the other one is “Chengdu Double Annual Exhibition”. But there were many artists to exhibit their works together in both of these two exhibitions. What’s more, I just had a part of my works exhibited....