Lu Xinghua is a philosopher who has been involved in the art field for a few years already.

His main point of view in this talk were that: contemporary artists should us art as a political tool, and art should leave the traditional values of fetishism, and human culture.
All the works exhibited at the Shanghai Biennale are so-called "weapons".

We should understand the development of new forms of weapons, what weapons are useful, which one aren't. Which weapons are fashionable or easy to kill, which weapons are traditional but insignificant today.

Three stories on the art situation today....