I was in the most restricted prison in China, the most tough. The design of the prison is modeled for internal crimes of the Communist party, so it's like a mafia family's law. It's independent to the law this nation openly applies. It's the place they take you before they give you over to the judicial system. You stay there for a year or two and they make you really suffer to confess everything.

[Shanghai Biennale] has been my attitude for as long as I've been practicing art and other cultural-related activities.

That's why I always question this sense. The feeling of home really requires a lot of trust. It requires you to identify with it, which I always find myself very contradictory to.

The art always wins. Anything can happen to me, but the art will stay.

I lived there [ in New York City] as an artist, but never as a Chinese artist.

If people are being abused or even killed during an arrest, this is highly disturbing.

The IT people who have made such an effort to know and understand computer technology. They are frustrated that you cannot use Facebook, Twitter and YouTube in China. They are the first to recognize that the situation is terrible.