Ai Weiwei on Beijing: 'It's a prison for freedom of speech'

A Guardian Cities / Tate special series Chinese artist Ai Weiwei was exiled from Beijing for 18 years and remains under constant surveillance in the city. In the first of our exclusive new series with Tate, he allows cameras into the self-enclosed neighbourhood for artists he has created in Caochangdi – and reveals his playful techniques for carving out a space in ‘a city that doesn’t really belong to its residents’ Continue reading...