BROADCASTS.com

Glass: a functional material and silent witness to our daily lives, so unnoticed we\u2019re usually looking straight through it. But in Venice, glass is an art form, and Ai Weiwei\u2019s latest work is designed to make you look. Having mastered many mediums \u2013 wood, marble, even social media - the artist-activist is now turning his hand to glass. Through a collaboration with Adriano Berengo, on the glass-making island of Murano, he\u2019s creating an immense chandelier, made up of over 2000 glass bones, organs and other surprising objects. Set to be displayed at the Basilica of San Giorgio Maggiore, La Commedia Umana is Ai\u2019s attempt to \u201ctalk about death in order to celebrate life\u201d. Join Alice McKee in Venice, speaking with Ai Weiwei and the Berengo Studios team, as she follows the life cycle of La Commedia Umana, from the furnace to the church.