The Dancing Wheels Company portrays a fantastic utilization of art to bring awareness to social issues. By encouraging the disabled to participate in preforming arts (such as dance), Quinlan (2010) wants to empower these individuals and change the negativity that surrounds the inclusion of persons with disabilities in the arts as well as in broader communities. The Dancing Wheels Company also re-enacted a protest from 1985 on stage with the help of an all-African American partner company in order to symbolize for the audience the parallels African Americans and those with disabilities have faced in their struggle for quality (Quinlan, 2010). The preforming arts offer a unique chance to connect with the audience in ways that words will not always achieve, providing a way to raise awareness without conflicting opinions due to an observer’s point-of-view.
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One of Ai Wewei’s more famous works is known as Remembering, which was an installation mural displayed at Haus Der Kunst in Munich, Germany. This piece of art features nine thousand backpacks that symbolizes the bags that the children left behind from the tragic earthquake that occurred in Sichuan in 2008 which took the lives of more than five thousand children (Dunn, 2016). Ai Wewei was skeptical and suspicious of the government’s handling of the tragedy due to the subprime construction of schools and the government’s secrecy over the death toll and the names of the deceased (Dunn, 2016). With Remembering, Ai Wewei was capable of producing a striking and terrible statement utilizing only backpacks. Rather than simply telling the story of the children that died, he created a visual representation of the lives that were
One of Ai Wewei’s more famous works is known as Remembering, which was an installation mural displayed at Haus Der Kunst in Munich, Germany. This piece of art features nine thousand backpacks that symbolizes the bags that the children left behind from the tragic earthquake that occurred in Sichuan in 2008 which took the lives of more than five thousand children (Dunn, 2016). Ai Wewei was skeptical and suspicious of the government’s handling of the tragedy due to the subprime construction of schools and the government’s secrecy over the death toll and the names of the deceased (Dunn, 2016). With Remembering, Ai Wewei was capable of producing a striking and terrible statement utilizing only backpacks. Rather than simply telling the story of the children that died, he created a visual representation of the lives that were