Ai Weiwei worked on the production of Puccini’s “Turandot” for two years. On Sunday, special guests saw what he had achieved. In any case, he incorporates many quotations from his previous work into the fairy tale opera.
Up until now, “takeover” has been understood in English as the takeover of one company by another. In the meantime, however, the term has not only arrived in German, but has also crept out of the economic into the social media complex (which may differ in our perception, but basically not significantly). So an “Instagram takeover” means that a mostly prominent user feeds his photos into the Instagram channel of another for a limited time, thereby changing his usual imagery, just “taking over”.
The Chinese artist and activist Ai Weiwei is a sought-following specialist in such “takeovers”, he did it in the run-up to the opening of his retrospective at the Albertina Modern last week, he will also do the same next Sunday for the “press”.when the anniversary edition designed by him as guest editor-in-chief appears, is also a “takeover” in itself.
