With the realization filtering in that investment banking has returned to normal, states have failed to properly regulate the financial system and the next breakdown being already prognosed while crisis effects will linger a while longer, the expression “So Sorry” may be understood to encompass humankind’s inability to learn from failure. Darwin’s nightmare in a different guise.

The gesture of Ai Weiwei titling his current exhibition at Haus der Kunst in Munich “So Sorry” relates his wonderfully analytical and precise works even more to the crisis context, i.e. the current state of affairs, than they are by themselves already a commentary to what is going on.

His injuries and their traces in the media sphere point to an ambiguous unity of art, media and politics and present the artist’s body as the ultimate adressee of the “So Sorry” expressed unhealthy unity of the governmental and financial agencies.

mourning Jeanne-Claude / a final wrap-up

breaking boundaries at last

The animals are all around us, actually all the time. The wear felt or a skin of leaves. We might find some of them in the classical indexes of the animal kingdom, but most of them we would seek there in vain.

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