Ai Weiwei: What do you fear most?

The question

Originally asked

Vanity Fair, to its interview subject, The Proust Questionnaire

The exact prompt is fixed in Vanity Fair's Proust Questionnaire and independently sustained in The Guardian's The Q&A over multiple decades.

You answer as yourself. Nobody on FLAPSS answers as anybody else.

Ai Weiwei

Recorded said elsewhere, not written here

Losing consciousness or awareness.

Vanity Fair, The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, April 2018 source ↗

Others on this question

Losing my mind.

Recorded Vanity Fair, The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, March 2025 source ↗

Daphne Guinness British socialite

Aggression without provocation or consequences.

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 27 July 2024 source ↗

Dying too young, and spiders.

Recorded The Q&A, The Guardian, 2 August 2025 source ↗

Matthew Modine American actor

Having a great fear.

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 21 January 2023 source ↗

Now, in this moment, in this city.

Recorded Vanity Fair, The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, April 2018 source ↗

Insensitivity. Indifference about what is right or wrong. Indifference about justice.

Recorded Vanity Fair, The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, April 2018 source ↗

To survive from an impossible condition.

Recorded The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, 23 April 2018 source ↗

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