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two announcements from Japanese feminists
"Fatima Lasay" <digiteer@ispbonanza.com.ph>
sagasnet___ call for participation
Brunhild Bushoff <brunhild@sagas.de>
DISCO SOCIALISM THE WORD & THE MOTION IS
DISCO SOCIALISM <wilfriedhoujebek@yahoo.com>
Workers' Liberty summer school, 21-22 June, London
markosborn <markosborn@macunlimited.net> (by way of richard barbrook)
W I L L :: A Negotiations Event :: A Transnational Exhibition
Gita Hashemi <gita@ping.ca>
Excuses for missing Planetwork Conference: Advance registration discount
2000list@planetwork.net
Censorship Panel NYC June 10
Robert Atkins <robert@robertatkins.net>
Raumkontrolle am 3.Juni / Das Programm
"ersatzmedia" <info@ersatzmedia.info>
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Date: Thu, 29 May 2003 02:30:52 +0800
From: "Fatima Lasay" <digiteer@ispbonanza.com.ph>
Subject: two announcements from Japanese feminists
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Action in Silence
I don't want militarisation in my life
announcement
Action in Silence committee and FAAB are proud to announce the inauguration
exhibition.
This exhibition focuses on the gender conscious antimilitarism movement in
the post-9.11 Japan.
The exhibition consists of document photographs, pamphlets, fliers, posters,
clothing and other items used for protest activities which are installed in
chronological order. Video documentation, interviews and performances (see
the special events) will be also shown.
In the past, male oriented anti-war movement focused on national and
international politics and organising mass demonstrations in which everyone
shouted the same slogans. Women's role in this movement seemed to be
largely
limited to that of the anonymous participants or that of the "peace loving
mother" .
But recently, there is different, more gender conscious anti-militarism
movement. For example, Kyoto Joshi-demo started a demonstration organised
by
girls in which they express their concern about effects of militarism in
their daily lives. Women in Black stand at street corners in silence.
Their
silence is stark contrast to the usual slogan shouting and issue debating.
Great Japan Anti-War Women in Black League is a parody of Great Japan
Women's
National Defence League during the Second World War. It questions the
women's role in the war and violence and at the same time provoke the
memories of victimisation of women and children in Japan during the war.
These are done mainly by women, but they all welcome participation of either
sexes.
The war is over, but all is not well.
The reality seems that violence is the ultimate solution.
We hope through art and this exhibition we can continue to express our
unwillingness to submit ourselves to violence.
Action in Silence committee
FAAB
Thanks to: Women in Black Tokyo(and elsewhere), Kyoto Joshi demo.
Exhibition information:
Date: May 31 - June 7
Time: 12:00 - 19:00
Opening party: May 31, 19:00-
Place: Pa/F Space
Shinjuku-ku Baba-shitacho, 18, Phoenix building 3F
Across the street from "Ana Hachi-man" shrine,
opposite to Waseda U. literature dept.
2 min. from subway Tozai line "Waseda" station
Event schedule:
June 1 "We don't want militarism in our lives"
14:00-17:00
admission 800 yen
discussion with Motoyama Hisako(Women in Black Tokyo), Mizushima
Nozomi(Kyoto Joshi demo), Shimada Yoshiko(FAAB)
June 7 "Big Head" -video showing and talk with Denise Uyehara from LA.
19:00 - 21:00
admission 1,000 yen
4th generation Japanese (Okinawan)-American artist, Denise Uyehara
will show a video of her new work about attack on Arab Americans during
Iraqi
war. Discussion follows.
June 8 Performances
17:00-
admission 2,000 yen
"Tears" by Ono Nonko
"Insane Body" by Ito Tari
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FAAB (Feminist Art Action Brigade) !
We would like to announce the inauguration of FAAB, the newest feminist art
organization in Tokyo.
"Feminism? Isn't it dead?"
Well, no. In the past decade or two, we thought modernism is dead, history
is dead, etc., but old habits die hard. While we thought ideologies
weredead, Imperialism, colonialism, and militarism all made great comebacks.
The bad old patriarchal system is more alive than ever. They have become
unapologetically ruthless. Faced with this harsh reality, we think
feminism
is still one of the few ideals we can hang on to in order not to be
completely disillusioned by the state of the world today. We know there are
many different versions of "feminism". Our version of feminism is made
clear
in the statement below. We would like to stress that our feminism is not to
expand the rights of the "biological female".
"All we need is Action!"
FAAB is not a fraternity club. We are a brigade of artists who use our
artistic expression as weapons. We don't have one "commander", instead,
whoever plans a project is responsible for the completion of that project.
Our current projects are:
"ACTION IN SILENCE" exhibition in which documentation of world wide
anti-war,
anti-imperialism movement will be shown along with performances and
installation.
"MINI QUEER SHOW" a preparatory exhibition for a big international queer
show
in the future.
Whoever or whatever group which want to do something with us, participate in
our events, support FAAB, be on our Mailing list, please get in touch with
us.
e-mail (English OK) yoshimada@aol.com
http://www.egroups.co.jp/group/FAAB-net/
Ito, Tari
Lim, Desiree
Nishimura, Yumiko
Ono, Nonko
Shimada, Yoshiko
Takahashi, Fumiko
Yasuda, Kazuyo
(in alphabetical order)
FAAB Manifesto
FAAB questions the prevailing social and artistic value system.
What is valuable art and who can be artists?
Rather than making a pyramid shaped value system, can we make a horizontal
system in which we all express ourselves equally and freely?
We think feminism is still one of the most useful and practical ideals to
make this happen.
What we call feminism here is not a movement for increasing women's equality
to men.
What we call feminism is for all, not only for the biological female.
We think that patriarchal system is pretty much responsible for the current
awful world of violence and greed, but we are not a negative,
"anti-male"movement at all. Rather, we seek for A better, equal system for
all.
We will work with minority people, groups, individuals who are striving to
make a change in the prevailing mainstream social system.
Our action is not confined in the so-called "cultural" activities.
Culture is closely connected to society, nation, world politics. We are not
afraid to be political as well as artistic, at the same time.
Membership
Each member can participate in the mailing list.
Projects are planned and decided by the project committee, which now
consists
of the above members. Those who want to be in this committee must present
his/her own project and act as the responsible person to realize the
project.
Correspondence:
FAAB
Fenicks build. 3F
18 Babashitamachi, Shinjuku, Tokyo Japan
$B!!!!(Be-mail yoshimada@aol.com
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Women in Black Tokyo
http://home.interlink.or.jp/~reflect/WIBTokyo/home.html
FAAB http://www.egroups.co.jp/group/FAAB-net/
GAAP (Gender and Arts Project)
http://home.interlink.or.jp/~reflect/GAAP/index.html
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Date: Thu, 29 May 2003 12:10:23 +0100
From: Brunhild Bushoff <brunhild@sagas.de>
Subject: sagasnet___ call for participation
Please note the approaching application deadline for the
sagasnet Developing Interactive Narrative Content Seminar in 2003
- this year taking place during the Games Convention in Leipzig, Germany:
Developing Interactive Narrative Content Seminar
August 20 - August 26 2003
Leipzig, Germany
Seminar language: English
Lectures and intense workshops will cover essential subjects to be
considered during the development/ pre-production phase for interactive
entertainment projects (story development, financing, project management,
marketing...).
In parallel up to ten selected interactive narrative projects in
development will be provided with several face-to-face consulting sessions
designed especially to the needs of the projects.
Application deadline (with project): June 1 2003
Application deadline (seminar only): August 4 2003
Participation fee:
Freelancers 400,00 EUR
Company delegates 1.600,00 EUR
Funding of travel and/or hotel costs available to a limited extend.
sagasnet is a non profit initiative in the frame of the European MEDIA
Programme Training to further content development for interactive media.
More information and application forms available at
<http://www.sagasnet.de/>
best regards,
Brunhild Bushoff
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sagasnet
c/o Bayerisches Filmzentrum
Bavariafilmplatz 7
D-82031 Muenchen-Gruenwald
tel + 49 89 64 98 11 29
fax + 49 89 64 98 13 29
mobile + 49 (0) 171 45 28 0 52
URL http://www.sagasnet.de
e-mail sagasnet@sagasnet.de
a joint initiative of
MEDIA Programme TRAINING
& Academy for TV and Film Munich
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Date: Mon, 2 Jun 2003 04:36:40 -0700 (PDT)
From: DISCO SOCIALISM <wilfriedhoujebek@yahoo.com>
Subject: DISCO SOCIALISM THE WORD & THE MOTION IS
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
In the early morning of june 2 Barnabay Snap nailed
the disco socialist manifesto on the door of the
Utrecht 'temple of pop' Tivoli.
This manifesto that is subtitled 'The invasion of the
disco snatchers' will, according to Snap, provoke the
same schism in current day dance culture as Luther's
actions did to organised religion in the 16th century.
During the Impakt festival, that will take place from
3-9 june in the Central Museum of Utrecht, disco
socialism will infect the dance floor of this new
media art festival. As the manifesto already states:
"More & more all of your disco are belong to us".
It is not yet known whether Tivoli will seek
(financial) redemption for the disco socialist damage
done to their front door.
http://www.discosocialisme.tk
- ---
DISCO SOCIALISME SCHEDULE
3-9 juni impakt
daily:: 15.00-16.30:: 96.3 FM:: socialfiction.org
radio
3-6-2003:: 20.00:: opening impakt:: opening disco
socialisme with DJ Auratheft
4-6-2003:: 20.00:: coach club:: presentation Wilfried
Hou Je Bek
4-6-2003:: 19.00:: monobrain noise musical
5-6-2003:: 16.30:: festival balie:: classic generative
psychogeography
8-6-2003:: 15.00:: festival balie:: .walk in mod3
- ---
=====
DISCO SOCIALISM THE WORD & THE MOTION IS
http://www.discosocialisme.tk
http://www.socialfiction.org
http://www.socialfiction.org/psychogeography
http://socialfiction.blogspot.com
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Date: Mon, 02 Jun 2003 15:03:32 +0100
From: markosborn <markosborn@macunlimited.net> (by way of richard barbrook)
Subject: Workers' Liberty summer school, 21-22 June, London
This year the war in Iraq is dominating political life. We will be
discussing the issues surrounding the war and the left's responses to this
crisis.
Saturday sessions include:
What next for Iraq? - Clive Bradley and a member of the Iranian Workers'
Left Unity discuss the issues
Discussion: 'Empire after Iraq' with Martin Thomas and Yann Moulier Boutang
Facing problems: Linda Grant discusses the rise of anti-semitism in Europe
Theory: What is a 'united front', what is a 'popular front'? Pat Murphy
looks at the issues Hal Draper's critique of Anarchism, with Alan Johnson
At work: the bosses' real agenda: how equality issues are being used
against workers - a discussion with Janine Booth Analysis: the
firefighters' and tube workers disputes, what lessons can be learned? With
activists from both unions leading the discussion
Politics, life and culture: Why is George Orwell important? with Chris
Hickey Fast Food Nation - Liam Conway discusses the politics of food
production
Discussion: Is a 'Tobin tax' a good idea? Martin Thomas from the AWL
and Emma Dowling from ATTAC UK debate the issues
Lula and Brazil: where is the government going? With Sue Branford, author
of a new book on Lula, and Paul Hampton
What next for the Scottish Socialist Party?
Debate: The AWL and CPGB discuss Stalinism and Afghanistan
Sunday sessions include:
Debates: Democracy and the fight for a workers' government, a debate
between the AWL and RDG
Defencism and defeatism in the Iraq war: a debate
A forum to discuss the prospects for the Socialist Alliance with Matthew
Caygill from Leeds SA plus a member of the AWL
Communism and cyberspace with Richard Barbrook Background: a history of
the British Mandate in Palestine - with Cathy Nugent
Workers Liberty and revolutionary history: The British Trotskyists during
World War 2 with Mark Catterell
12.00 - 9.00 Saturday 21 June
11.00 - 4.30 Sunday 22 June
At Caxton House, 129 St John's Way, London N19
There is a creche and cheap food.
Accommodation is available.
Tickets before the event:
2-day: £18 (waged), £10 (low waged/students), £6 (unwaged)
1-day: £9/£5/£3
From: Ideas for Freedom, PO Box 823 London SE15 4NA
Cheques payable to 'AWL'
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events mentioned in these emails, please phone 020 7207 3997 or 07748
185553, or email office@workersliberty.org.
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Date: Sat, 31 May 2003 11:12:56 -0400
From: Gita Hashemi <gita@ping.ca>
Subject: W I L L :: A Negotiations Event :: A Transnational Exhibition
|__________________________________
|
| W I L L
|
| June 19 July 19, 2003
|
| Exhibition Reception: Thursday, June 19, 5:30-7:30 pm
| Some of the artists will be present.
|
| http://negotiation2003.net
| <info@negotiations2003.net>
|
| A Space Gallery, 401 Richmond St.W., #110, Toronto, Canada
| 416-979-9633
|__________________________________
| Ilana Salama Ortar, Stephen Wright
| (Israel, France)
| Galia Shapira, Aref Nammari, Haggai Kupermintz, Phil Shane
| (Israel/USA, Palestine/USA, Israel/USA, USA)
| Alexandra Handal in collaboration with poets Karen Alkalay-Gut
and Nathalie Handal
| (Palestine/Dominican Republic, Israel, Palestine/USA)
| Rami a.k.a. Jaromil
| (Italy, Palestine)
| Artist Emergency Response
| (USA)
| Shahrzad Arshadi, Josée Lambert
| (Canada)
| Negotiations Working Group
| (Canada)
|__________________________________
| WILL is a Creative Response initiative and a part of
_Negotiations: From a Piece of Land to a Land of Peace_ a multi-part
cultural event that intends to create new public spaces for dialogue
on shared entitlement and common responsibility for co-existence in
Palestine-Israel and beyond. For information about other Negotiations
events (June 19 - 29) visit our website at http://negotiations2003.net
|__________________________________
|__________________________________
| C U R A T O R I A L S T A T E M E N T
High-tide on the day of war, before we are drowned into another
twilight of repressed and forgotten truths, engulfed in the light of
explosions last year in Afghanistan, this year in Iraq, every year,
for fifty-five years, in the land historically known as Palestine
we ask: how do we change our world to change our fate? This question
points directly to the ethics of our intentions and practices for it
is no longer possible to question the urgency and the imperatives.
The world must change if we are to live with one another in dignity.
To live with ourselves, we must change. The empire is unmasked, yet
again. Rulers are at work to redraw the map, yet again. Bodies have
lined up to stand witness to this violence, yet again. Violations are
countless and cannot be checked against the anachronistic terms of
"human rights." Bombs, tanks, armoured helicopters, guns and missiles
are not bound by any charters, and our utopian investments in
international laws and institutions have failed to produce any
profits except for the profiteers at war for more control over land,
resources, human lives and histories. Resistance was yesterday¹s
response. Today, openly formulated insurgence is a reality.
The Second Palestinian Intifada, which erupted in September
of 2000, provides an instance of such insurgency. This is a new phase
in the century-long Palestinian history of anti-colonial struggles,
ongoing since 1897. Contrary to mainstream representations, the
Intifada is not simply a localized Palestinian nationalist response
to the repressive Israeli occupation and its war machine; rather, it
is a demonstration of indigenous peoples¹ refusal to surrender their
agency to the hegemonic hold of colonial regimes. In spite of the
gross imbalance of powers, the Palestinians have risen up, yet again,
to challenge colonialism¹s intrinsically xenophobic discourses and
its structural patterns of exclusion and domination. More than
anything else, the Intifada exposes the failures of colonialism to
subjugate the will of the Palestinian people and silence dissenting
voices.
The radicalization of this will has swept over the
checkpoints and barbed wire to infiltrate the consciousness of
Israelis and of people around the world. The new forms of
Palestinian-Israeli and transnational collaboration manifested
through organizations such as the International Solidarity Movement
and Ta¹ayush draw on a renewed will to organize civil communities
in countering economic, political and military colonization. Such
social mobilization calls for different forms of representation; for
a thorough shake-up in our habits of thought. It calls for a
conceptual creativity that sets out to ethically enact strategies of
change and pragmatically prefigure the horizons of a different world.
This, we believe, is the fertile land where a new insurgent art
movement can grow.
For this exhibition, we called on artists to formulate and
realize the ways in which transdisciplinary artistic practices can
nourish stronger, more ethically accountable, multi-faceted and
multi-vocal responses to the social imperatives we face. A gathering
of politically responsive work, WILL is dedicated to the project of
change: unearthing, remembering, coming to voice, naming and, rooted
in the depths of consciousness, actively intervening in the social
field. The modes of intervention utilized by the projects in WILL
exceed conventional practices of representational art. Each work
shown in this exhibit has emerged through intense negotiations and
co-labouring, of which the ultimate products are the social and
personal relations and transformations that transcend the artwork.
Here the artwork is only a landmark for new conceptions. The real
work is ongoing, constantly evolving and defiant of representation as
it unfolds in the plains of awareness and action.
WILL provides opportunities for engagement, and asks that we
engage differently. We encourage you to actively participate and
contribute your labour to this work.
- -- Gita Hashemi & Hanadi Loubani for Negotiations Working Group
|__________________________________
| P R O J E C T S
|________
| Inadvertent Monuments
| Ilana Salama Ortar and Stephen Wright
Our project focuses on what was initially a deeply-entrenched
border cairn, constructed after World War I, intended to separate the
French mandate of Lebanon from the British mandate of Palestine.
During the Israeli occupation of South Lebanon from 1982-2000, and
under the protection of Tsahal, layers of top soil were scooped up
from vast tracts of occupied land and taken by dump trucks to Israeli
settlements near the border a fact to which the stone cairn bears
subtle though irrefutable evidence: the cairn, whose bottom half was
deeply entrenched in the earth, now stands some eight feet above the
ground. While its top portion is the same light tan colour as the
surrounding topography, the bottom three feet are a dark ruddy brown
identical to the soil once covering them. Intended as a horizontal
territorial marker, the cairn has come to mark verticality raising
a variety of issues regarding the difference between land and soil,
territory and earth. It is an inadvertent monument. As such, it
stands as a condensed metaphor of the conflict embedded in the
historical present; a public mirror for anyone who cares to look at
the issue of peace and partition not as event but as sign. Taking
this land-art-like unintentional "monument" as its hub, this project
refuses to be partitioned within the territory of "art." Instead,
using art-related skills to refocus attention on an otherwise
invisible symbol, it foregrounds art¹s use-value in negotiating the
shift from a piece of land to a land of peace.
|________
| Destinations: A Palestinian-Israeli Audio-Visual Installation
| Galia Shapira, Aref Nammari, Haggai Kupermintz, Phil Shane
The "Destinations" installation makes use of photographic images
collected from Palestinians and Israelis that convey their profound
connection to their shared land and its history. Sound recordings
capture personal stories of love, hope and pain that the images
document. A multiple slide projection, the large photographic images
are projected onto the gallery walls in a continuous sequence and are
accompanied by Arabic and Hebrew audio narratives including poetry
and literary pieces by Israeli and Palestinian writers. Surrounded by
images of the shared land, as seen through Israeli and Palestinian
eyes, viewers are invited to re-examine conventional perceptions of
the conflict. Collection and dissemination of images and stories
continue as the artists constitute a growing archive of hope and
struggle towards a common destiny.
|________
| Farah In Search for Joy
| Rami a.k.a. Jaromil
The "Farah" project documents my three-week trip, in August,
2002, through the occupied territories of Palestine. During this time
I crossed East Jerusalem, Gaza, Bethlehem, Hebron and Ramallah. This
was while Bethlehem and Gaza were still under siege and Ramallah was
experiencing another full-time curfew after the assassination of
Ahmad Saadat. I set out for this trip independently, but, once in
Palestine, I had the chance to collaborate with some valuable people
of the Palestinian Progressive Youth Union, Tactical Media Crew,
Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, International
Solidarity Movement and Indymedia Palestine. Farah is an effort to
document the life and culture of the Palestinian population in zones
of war, without actually mentioning the war itself. It is a net-art
project in the way that it tries to use the net as a privileged
medium to unveil a beauty usually made far by war. It is the content
that counts in Farah, the medium only provides the necessary means
for the message to be conveyed. The project is born from the need to
discover and document that which remains untouched by war: everything
in the tales of children and older folks that pervades in the
identity of a people in spite of dispossession, humiliation and
violence. Farah is a search for joy and for a resistance that
organizes itself in thousands of forms in the imagination. It is to
recognize the millenary Palestine in the untouchable dreams of its
children. http://farah.dyne.org/
|________
| Dance
| Alexandra Handal in collaboration with poets Karen Alkalay-Gut
and Nathalie Handal
Alexandra Handal¹s multimedia installation, "Dance," is based on
a joint poem written by Israeli poet Karen Alkalay-Gut and
Palestinian poet, Nathalie Handal. A digital animation of the poem,
which becomes entirely legible only at the end, is projected onto the
floor. While watching the projection, the viewer experiences the
words of the poem transform into abstract shapes that resemble
lightning, needles, feathers, and webs. As they are colliding, moving
past and against each other, the words begin to emerge as lines of a
poem, then stanzas, breaking the fear of sharing the same space in
order to dance together. Dance is a space which invites the viewer to
gather round and experience - through movement, color, and rhythm -
the pain, frustration, fear and joy involved in taking the first
steps towards negotiating our present, ourselves. Dance compels the
viewer to ask: how can we not dance together?
|________
| Squares in the Pavement & Beau temps, mauvais temps
| Shahrzad Arshadi and Josée Lambert
"Squares in the Pavement & Beau temps, mauvais temps" is a
photo-documentary project created by two artists: one from the East,
the other from the West. Every Friday since September 14, 2001, these
two artists have met each other in front of the Israeli Consulate in
Montreal to stand vigil for peace and justice in Palestine. For a
period of one full year, rain or shine, Josée and Shahrzad have
documented the participants at these vigils as a testimony to their
collective hopes and fears. The collaboration between the two artists
is an installation of 104 black and white photographs. While Josée¹s
contribution symbolizes time, season and continuity, Shahrzad
captures portraits of people wearing the most immediately
recognizable symbol of Palestine the "keffia" people of all walks
of life, teachers, workers, artists and students; young and old from
all races and origins, Jewish, Muslim, Atheist and Š
|________
| Video Petition Project
| Artist Emergency Response
The "Video Petition Project" is a visual testimony of North
Americans voicing their opposition to the Israeli Occupation. Despite
their large and growing numbers, these voices are significantly
underrepresented by the mainstream North American media. They are
comprised of Jews and non-Jews alike whose sincere, thoughtful, and
eloquent speech cannot be dismissed as self-loathing or anti-Semitic
simply due to their criticism of the Israeli government and its
policies. Some participants present their own statements and others
use one or another among a variety of statements prepared by AER and
imbue these with their own sincerity. Our ultimate goal is to present
the project at schools, community organizations, art venues, museums,
public access television, radio, and internet sites, and also to
public officials and leaders, thus helping to further aid the
acknowledgement and rightful consideration of this growing movement.
The 80-min video premiered in September 2002 at the Piece Process
exhibit at Chicago¹s ARC gallery and was recently (April/May 2003) on
display at the Chicago Museum of Contemporary Art as part of the
exhibit War (What Is It Good For?).
|________
| Olive Fair
| Negotiations Working Group
"Olive Fair" renders visible the material conditions and the
strategies of survival and resistance in occupied Palestine. The
installation displays olive products by Palestinian producers
obtained through Sindyanna, a fair-trade company based in Jaffa
side-by-side with video documentation of a direct action by the
International Solidarity Movement in support of a group of
Palestinian growers in the West Bank who were resisting the uprooting
of their olive trees by Israeli soldiers and bulldozers. Olive Fair
invites gallery visitors to take product samples in exchange for
contributing personal responses to a website, thus enabling networked
consciousness and informed dialogue. As the olive products in the
gallery diminish, what remains in the physical space transmitted
through the ISM video is the reality of the struggle in Palestine
cultivating a growing public awareness and solidarity in the virtual
space. http://olivefair.net
|__________________________________
__________________________________
| A R T I S T S ' B I O S
|________
| The collaboration between ILANA SALAMA ORTAR and STEPHEN WRIGHT
on Inadvertent Monuments is based on an extra-disciplinary approach
to art: contrary to trendy inter-disciplinary approaches (which
accept disciplinary partitioning as a precondition for association)
and the apparent lack of discipline characterising so much
contemporary art, they seek to mirror the disciplinary
extraterritoriality and non-situatedness of their practice in the
issues that they focus. Using art-related methodologies, they seek to
draw the sort of sustained and thoughtful attention to inadvertent
symbols and monuments particularly in situations of social urgency,
suppressed memory and identity loss that art-specific proposals
often enjoy. Stephen Wright is a Paris-based theorist of art-related
practice. Ilana Salama Ortar is a Haifa-based artist, working
extensively on the development of "civic art" (city + civitas),
investigating the visible and invisible traces of the erasure of
individual and collective memory in the urban fabric. They previously
collaborated in the exhibition L¹Incurable Mémoire des Corps.
|________
| Since November 2002, a group of activists has been meeting in an
effort to explore a new vision and discourse to deal honestly and
courageously with the Palestinian and Israeli experiences. We
emphasize recognition of common destiny, mutual acknowledgement of
pain and suffering, and the embracement of the humanity of each other
as keys to reconciliation. Group members are: GALIA SHAPIRA, an
Israeli visual artist; AREF NAMMARI, a Palestinian electronics
engineer and activist; HAGGAI KUPERMINTZ, an Israeli assistant
professor of education; and PHIL SHANE, an American associate
professor of accounting. The Destinations group aims to promote the
co-existence of historical, cultural, and spiritual Palestinian and
Israeli narratives, through collaborative intellectual and artistic
expressions. By braiding together the stories of peoples' love for
their land, their struggles, pain and hopes, we strive to develop a
new understanding of reality. Our work stems from the realization
that a great responsibility for promoting an alternative vision lies
with the intellectual, spiritual, and arts communities in developing
new images of co-existence that resist self-serving political and
economic dictates. We hope to give voice to a grassroots movement,
expressing Israeli and Palestinian deep yearnings to transcend their
tragic destiny as eternal communities of suffering.
|________
| RAMI a.k.a. JAROMIL (http://korova.dyne.org) is a free software
programmer and streaming media pioneer, media artist and activist,
performer and emigrant. Wired to the matrix since 1991 (point of
NeuromanteBBS on Cybernet 65:1500/3.13), Jaromil co-founded (1994)
the non-profit organization Metro Olografix for the diffusion of
information technology, and in 2000 founded the free software lab
dyne.org; sub-root for the autistici.org / inventati.org community.
Jaromil is active in the Italy Indymedia Collective, and is currently
the software analyst and developer for PUBLIC VOICE Lab (Vienna). He
recently co-curated I LOVE YOU , an exposition about software viruses
at the Museum of Applied Arts in Frankfurt. His past collaborations
include, among others: Giardini Pensili, digitalcraft.org, 01001.org,
August Black, [epidemiC], Florian Cramer, 92v2.0, LOA hacklab, Lobo,
Freaknet Medialab, CandidaTV, the Mitocondri, the HackMeeting
community. Jaromil's most recent online piece is Farah: a
documentation of his travel through the occupied territories of
Palestine, in search for joy.
|________
| ALEXANDRA HANDAL is a Santo Domingo-NYC based Palestinian artist
whose installations, drawings and digital media focus on issues of
transnationality, cultural migration/displacement, representation,
and memory. Her work has been represented in exhibitions in NYC,
Chicago, Boston, Philadelphia, and Sydney, Australia. Currently, she
is a Visiting Artist Lecturer at the Escuela de Diseno in the
Dominican Republic, affiliated with Parsons School of Design. KAREN
ALKALAY-GUT was born on the last night of the Blitz in London to
refugee parents who brought her to the United States after the war.
She has spent her adult life teaching poetry at Tel Aviv University,
writing, and trying to get people to listen to each other through
poetry. Her 20 books include five poetry books in Hebrew, a biography
of the American poet, Adelaide Crapsey, an e-book of magic poems
called Avracadivra (2002). NATHALIE HANDAL is a Palestinian poet,
playwright and writer who has lived in the United States, Europe, the
Caribbean, Latin America and the Middle East. She is the author of
the poetry book, The NeverField, the poetry CD, Traveling Rooms, and
the editor of The Poetry of Arab Women: A Contemporary Anthology, an
Academy of American Poets bestseller and winner of the Pen
Oakland/Josephine Miles award. Nathalie Handal currently teaches at
Hunter College in NYC.
|________
| JOSÉE LAMBERT is a freelance photographer in the cultural domain.
Twelve years ago, she began documentary work in the Middle-East.
Often associating herself with humanitarian organizations, Josée¹s
work primarily focused on the impact of sanctions on the Iraqi
people. She also produced, in collaboration with Amnesty
International, an important documentary with prisoners of Khiam
Detention Centre, south of Lebanon. For her exhibition Ils étaient
absents sur la photo, she was awarded artiste pour la paix in 1998.
SHAHRZAD ARSHADI, a human rights activist and Montréal-based
Canadian/Iranian artist, came to Canada as a political refugee on
December 24,1983. In the past ten years, Shahrzad has ventured into
different fields of photography, painting and video, enabling her
focus on issues of memory, culture and human rights. Shahrzad has
exhibited her work in various locations across North America.
|________
| ARTIST EMERGENCY RESPONSE (AER) is a Chicago-based collective of
artists and activists including many Jews and Palestinians
working for a peaceful solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
We seek a just and lasting peace through the minimal, general
framework of the implementation of the Palestinian people¹s right to
self-determination, an end to the Israeli occupation of the West Bank
and Gaza Strip, a just solution to the status of Jerusalem, and a
just solution to the Palestinian refugee crisis. We strongly condemn
the escalating violence against civilians on both sides of the
conflict and demand that the United States end its economic,
military, and political support of Israel until the illegal
occupation ends. We are dedicated to fostering dialogue between
communities and combating anti-Arab, anti-Muslim, anti-Palestinian,
and anti-Jewish rhetoric and violence.
|________
| NEGOTIATIONS WORKING GROUP: We are women of diverse cultural
background (Anglo-Canadian, Iranian, Italian, Jewish and Palestinian)
and with different skills and experiences (some are artists, some
academics, and most full-time activists). Our differences have
constituted the productive and pragmatic spaces of our
'negotiations', and our work together has been the shared experience
of learning our ethical accountability to one another and to a larger
political project that touches our everyday lives in different and
not always readily acknowledged or immediately visible ways. In spite
of all the difficulties and uncertainties inherent in working towards
social transformation, months of intense volunteer labour have taught
us how to be allies and friends while navigating through politically
contentious, socially complex and historically painful grounds. This
work has made us more determined: negotiations cannot be channeled by
any prescribed roadmaps; they demand complete openness, transparency
and good will. We started as a small formation with dynamic
membership by choice, chance or guile within Creative Response.
For records of other CR initiatives, visit
http://creativeresponseweb.net
|__________________________________
| Negotiations: From a Piece of Land to a Land of Peace
| info@negotiations2003.net
| http://negotiations2003.net
|
| Negotiations is a Creative Response initiative:
| http://creativeresponseweb.net
|__________________________________
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Date: Fri, 30 May 2003 15:04:41 -0700
From: 2000list@planetwork.net
Subject: Excuses for missing Planetwork Conference: Advance registration discount
What are you going to tell your grandchildren when they ask,
³ Where were you at Planetwork in 2003?²
...but you missed out on advance registration...
Multiple guess:
1. The network was down
2. The dog ate my wireless card
3. I was afraid of getting sniffed by Ashcroft & Poindexter
4. I thought it was just for geeks
With outrageous Activist Discounts, Workexchange, and *Bush Economy* Advance
Discounts, there really is no good excuse to miss it.
Advance Registration Discount Prices go up June 1st.
REGISTER NOW ONLINE:
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Wes Boyd, Paul Hawken, Michael Linton, Marc Cantor, Reid Hoffman,
and a number of other additional presenters have just joined the roster.
Networking a Sustainable Future
at the Presidio in San Francisco
A Planetwork Conference
June 6-8, 2003
Come participate in the second international Planetwork Conference: expand
your networks, forge new models, share resources and help implement the
creative solutions we need to build a peaceful and sustainable future.
Join One Hundred Presenters, for three very full days, including:
Joan Blades & Wes Boyd, cofounders of the online phenomenon
MoveOn.org in their first live appearance in California.
Hazel Henderson, world renowned syndicated columnist, author and advocate
for ecologically sustainable human development.
Douglas Engelbart, who invented the mouse, hypertext, and much of the modern
computer interface, out of his recognition of humanity¹s need to get
collectively smarter to address the real challenges we face on this planet.
Paul Hawken, business leader, environmentalist, best selling author, and
leading proponent for reform of corporate ecological practices.
Jeff Gates, author of Democracy at Risk: Rescuing Main Street from Wall
Street.
David Dill, Stanford University computer scientist challenging touch screen
voting.
Michael Linton, one of the worlds leading authorities on complementary
currency, founder of the first LETSystem, designer of new systems for an
open society.
Tom Matzzie, National Interactive Campaign Manager for the AFL-CIO.
Marc Canter as founder of MacroMind, which became Macromedia, he helped
invent Director and the concept of cross-platform multimedia authoring.
Stephan Smith, renowned peace activist, singer, songwriter - performing
Saturday evening.
and many more innovators from the world of information technology,
environmental visionaries, peace and social justice activists, and
independent media pioneers, to explore how social networks, information
technologies and the Internet can play a key role in accelerating positive
global change.
Panel Topics include:
* Networking On-line Independent News
* Blogs, Blogs, Blogs
* Networking Power: Struggle and Transformation of MediaSpace
* LinkTank White Paper on the Augmented Social Network
* What Works: Nonprofit Needs for Tech Tools
* Immersive Earth - Global Collaboration & Geocommunication
* Digital Identity: Digital Rights
* Mobilizing the Masses: Organizing Online
* Complementary Currencies:International Perspectives
* Sustainable Media Networks: Why Not Now
* Real Virtual Communities
* Internet Exchange
* Mobilizing on a Dime
* Digital Bill of Right
* Online Communities
* Geo Storytelling
* Messaging Equity
* Social Network Software
* 3D Geo Browsers
* Radical Philanthropy: New Approaches to Giving
* Solari:Transparent Government Finance
* Social Entrepreneurs: Incubating Social Change
Collaboratory: The entire building will support wired and wireless
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On behalf of the presenters, staff and a small army of workexchange
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we invite you to join us for this unique event,
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Register at the advance discount on-line. Full conference registration and
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Date: Sun, 01 Jun 2003 17:47:01 -0700
From: Robert Atkins <robert@robertatkins.net>
Subject: Censorship Panel NYC June 10
7 pm at the New School, on June 10, 66 W. 12th St. This panel is the third
in the multi-year series, Censorship in Camouflage (described below), about
free expression in the digital age. Last years' panels were lively and
stimulating.
Panel 1, June 10, 2003 Permission to Speak: Who Owns Identity & History?
This panel focuses on case-studies to deepen the debate about
representations of identity and the pitfalls of political correctness,
whether from the Right or Left. Does anybody "own" the Holocaust? Or the
World Trade Center Site? Is there a prescribed way to speak about slavery
and racial relations? Are arts-world denizens just as ready to jettison the
Bill of Rights as, polls suggest, the majority of Americans are?
Moderator: Robert Atkins, writer and activist
Panelists:
Mary Miss, artist
Leslie Camhi, writer
Jill Scott, artist (Zurich)
Somi Roy, film and new media curator
Panel 2 June 17, 2003 McDonalds or McDocumenta: Artistic Freedom in a Global
Economy?
Globalization has transformed more than political and economic organization;
its impact extends to cultural traffic as well. American museums send
exhibitions abroad and censor them in accordance with local norms. The
Internet¹s global outreach is testing local laws determined to ban certain
artistic or political content. International trade agreements mandate
restrictions on cultural imports, while once marginalized, non-Western art
is more visible than ever before, as in last year¹s Documenta 11. In the
weakening nation state, economic deregulation encounters both the
re-emergence of religious fundamentalisms and ethnic concerns. In this clash
of forces, does artistic freedom still matter and how has its meaning
changed? What role do local context and local culture play for the globally
mobile artist?
CENSORSHIP IN CAMOUFLAGE
COORDINATED BY ROBERT ATKINS, SVETLANA MINTCHEVA AND ANTONIO MUNTADAS IN
PARTNERSHIP WITH THE VERA LIST CENTER FOR ART AND POLICS OF THE NEW SCHOOL
UNIVERSITY
The Censorship in Camouflage Project consist of a series of discussions and
publications exploring structural, economic, political and cultural
factors‹in addition to the more frequently debated legal issues‹constraining
artistic expression. The project is conceived as a laboratory of ideas,
where problems will be investigated in depth and from a variety of
disciplinary perspectives. Our focus will remain on presenting the issues in
all their complexity, rather than providing simple (and simplistic)
³answers.²
Censorship is widely understood as governmental denial of freedom of
speech. Speech is suppressed, however, through far more varied and indirect
means. Artists¹ voices can be silenced through economic means even more
effectively than through old-style political or ideological suppression.
Ultimately, economic pressures join political and ideological demands to
produce the subtlest censor of all: the internalized voice of
self-censorship. The value attributed to free speech frequently clashes‹or
is perceived to clash‹with other societal values including the desire to
protect children from ³inappropriate² materials, the imperatives of
³community standards² and political correctness, and intellectual property.
The Censorship in Camouflage Project operates from a multi-disciplinary
perspective that aims at redefining censorship as the result of systemic
repression rather than a legal issue limited to the governmental suppression
of particular works. The initial panels focused on the visual arts, but
ultimately the project will expand to include other art media, like rap
music and film.
In June of 2002 we held two panels sponsored by the New School¹s Vera List
Center of Art and Politics‹one about censorship through economic means, the
other on self-censorship‹inaugurating lively discussions of these
under-explored issues. The proceedings of these panels have published as an
in-house New School publication. They are also available in electronic form
on the web site of the National Coalition Against Censorship (NCAC).
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Date: Mon, 2 Jun 2003 16:24:31 +0200
From: "ersatzmedia" <info@ersatzmedia.info>
Subject: Raumkontrolle am 3.Juni / Das Programm
Programmankündigung Dienstag, 3. Juni
ERSATZRADIO
7 Tage Raumkontrolle auf 104,1 UKW
So 1. - Sa 7. Juni tägl. 24h
Live-Stream: www.ersatzmedia.info
++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
8:00 Uhr Morgenstern: Exerzitien zur Austreibung der Nacht im Hörer.
Hörspiel von René Pollesch: Heidi Hoh arbeitet hier nicht mehr
9:00 Uhr Der Morgen Danach. Ein Berlin Surrogat in sechs Sendungen
von Holger Schulze mit Hanna Buhl
11:00 Uhr Vom Durchqueren der Räume. Hörstücke: Spencer Tracey ist nicht
tot.
Sam Shepard/Herbert Fritsch/Sir Henry.
12:00 Uhr 18.00 Uhr Das Magazin
Moderation: David Gieselmann, Ronald Kukulis und Lilo Wanders
Interviews u.a.: mit Nicola Duric, Ines Kappert, Thomas Lehmen, Geert
Lovink, Jelka Plate
Beiträge u.a. von: Livesendung mit dem Chaos Computer Club zur
Überwachung öffentlicher Räume/ Ligna interventionistisches
Radiohören/Residenzpflicht - Flüchtlinge sprechen über Bewegungsfreiheit
in Deutschland von Siginificans
Musik: Radio Orchester feat. Marc Weise, spread
ca. 17:00 Uhr Look, Listen and Repeat Seiichi Motohasi: Nadya´s
Village nacherzählt von Katja Potapeijko. Am 4. Juni um 17.15 Uhr im
Arsenal Kino.
18:00 Uhr Dialoge aus dem KIOSK für nützliches Wissen“: Amos Gitai und
Friedemann Büttner
Arabische und israelische Routen, politische Landschaften und
Traumata. Das Verhältnis von Orten zu Identitäten im permanenten
Kriegszustand“
20:00 Uhr Superschool: Kongress des Halbwissens zum Thema: „Migration“
21:00 Uhr Twen FM mit moFM, bad kleinen DJ Team
23:00 Uhr Sound of the City Gespräche zur Stadt und Musik. Mit Christoph
Gurk.
ab 24:00 Uhr Twen FM mit Marke B, inspector freeze hiphop und Rinse FM
from London
ERSATZRADIO ist eine Produktion der ErsatzStadt ein Initiativprojekt
der Kulturstiftung des Bundes in Kooperation mit der Volksbühne am
Rosa-Luxemburg-Platz.
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ErsatzStadt ist ein Initiativprojekt der Kulturstiftung des Bundes
in Kooperation mit der Volksbühne am Rosa-Luxemburg-Platz
Kuratoren:
Jochen Becker/Stephan Lanz (metroZones)
Hannah Hurtzig/Anselm Franke (Tulip House)
Bettina Masuch/Christoph Gurk (Dramaturgie, Volksbühne am
Rosa-Luxemburg-Platz)
Ersatzbüro im Prater der Volksbühne:
Ellen Hofmann (Organisationsleitung)
Katharina von Wilcke (Produktionsleitung Tulip House)
Kirsten Herkenrath (Öffentlichkeitsarbeit ErsatzStadt)
Jenny Helch (Assistenz)
Kastanienallee 7-9, 10437 Berlin
Tel.: 030-44 03 73 62 oder 030-44 23 78 19
info@ersatzmedia.info
www.ersatzmedia.info <http://www.ersatzmedia.info/>
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