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Ai Weiwei Exhibition on Alcatraz Island
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Ai Weiwei on Alcatraz will feature a series of seven site-specific installations by artist Ai Weiwei in four locations on Alcatraz Island, offering a new cultural lens through which to experience the notorious military and federal penitentiary turned national park. Presented by the FOR-SITE Foundation in partnership with the National Park Service and the Golden Gate National Parks Conservancy, the exhibition explores urgent questions about human rights and freedom of expression and responds to the potent and layered history of Alcatraz as a place of detainment and protest.

 photo Jan Stürmann, courtesy of FOR-SITE Foundation

photo Jan Stürmann, courtesy of FOR-SITE Foundation

The large-scale sculpture, sound, and mixed-media works will be installed in the two-story New Industries Building where “privileged” inmates were permitted to work; the main and psychiatric wards of the Hospital; the A Block cells, the only remaining section of the military prison that was constructed in the early 20th century; and the Dining Hall. With the exception of the Dining Hall, these spaces are usually off limits to visitors, but all will be open to the public throughout the run of the exhibition. On view through April 26, 2015, @Large will provoke visitors to consider the broader social implications of incarceration and the possibilities of art as an act of conscience. Tickets for the exhibition are on sale to the public now, and include access to the exhibition and the general Alcatraz audio tour. Tickets to Alcatraz sell out several weeks in advance.

 photo Jan Stürmann, courtesy of FOR-SITE Foundation

photo Jan Stürmann, courtesy of FOR-SITE Foundation

 photo Jan Stürmann, courtesy of FOR-SITE Foundation

photo Jan Stürmann, courtesy of FOR-SITE Foundation

 photo Jan Stürmann, courtesy of FOR-SITE Foundation

photo Jan Stürmann, courtesy of FOR-SITE Foundation

photo Jan Stürmann, courtesy of FOR-SITE Foundation

photo Jan Stürmann, courtesy of FOR-SITE Foundation

 photo Jan Stürmann, courtesy of FOR-SITE Foundation

photo Jan Stürmann, courtesy of FOR-SITE Foundation

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