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>From: Artpeacelink Alexandra Paperno 604 Henry Street, #1 Brooklyn, NY, 11231 (718)643-9897 papern@yahoo.com A r t p e a c e l i n k Artists for Nonviolent Alternatives     Contact persons: Alexandra Paperno (718) 643-9897 papern@yahoo.com               Rebecca Sack (212)928-2288 telakaaa@aol.com (516)286-0812 Advisor: Dore Ashton "Returning violence for violence only multiplies violence, adding deeper darkness to a night already devoid of stars." --Martin Luther King, Jr. "Imagine that you are creating the building of human destiny with the object of making men happy in the end, giving them peace and rest at last, but that it was essential and inevitable to torture to death only one tiny creature and to found that edifice on its unavenged tears, would you consent to be the architect on those conditions?" --Fyodor Dostoevsky, Brothers Karamazov Introduction: We affirm that murder and forcible expulsion of people are crimes against humanity. Bombing, though, is not an effective nor civilized way to solve conflicts and is no less criminal. It is bitter to realize that at the end of the 20th century, after two world wars--the most cruel and severe in the history of mankind--our civilization still resorts to conflict resolution not through dialogue, but armed force. It seems that no lesson was learned from this century's horrific experiences and we are destined to fall once again into a vicious cycle of death and destruction. All of Europe is affected by the war in the Balkans. In addition to the obliteration of Serb police and army sites in Kosovo, NATO has demolished much of the civilian infrastructure of Yugoslavia. Hundreds of civilians were killed, thousands wounded, and hundreds of thousands left jobless. Sites bombed include television stations, oil refineries, chemical plants, electric transmission facilities, major roadways, airports, hospitals, schools, medieval monasteries, as well as numerous museums and monuments. Cluster bombs, 25 percent of which fail to detonate, litter the terrain with land mines for years to come. Petro-chemical and uranium weapons used in this "humanitarian" war cause leukemia and birth defects and will have disastrous ecological effects far beyond the region. This war can lead to political, social, and ecological destruction of Europe and the rest of the world. Proposal (Consisting of Two Parts): 1. Group Exhibition: Open to all media--painting, sculpture, photography, video, installation, and computer generated art concerning the definitions of human, humane, humanitarian/ism, humanity, humanize. 2. Collaborative Piece Artpeace: each artist/writer/photographer who is willing to participate shall contribute an art piece the size of his/her hand. The amount of artwork received will determine the installation in the space. The unified art piece will be linked together in the form of a tree and continue to grow exponentially as artists from around the world send in their contributions via mail or the internet. Purpose: The proceeds from the sales will be donated to an independent humanitarian organization (to be determined) that does not take a military position and that provides medical and other crucial aid to those who are suffering as a result of this war: both Albanian and Serbian victims. This exhibition, however, is intended to raise much more than money. By bringing together artists from different countries we would be creating a dialogue and, therefore, taking significant steps towards the peace process. Participants: Visual artists/Writers who would like to participate in the name of peace. Current list of participants (subject to change and expansion): Lynne Allen, Dore Ashton, Alexander Bezzubov, Katya Blumenberg, Jennifer Croson, Emily Feinstein, Ellie Ga, Auguste Garufi, Mikhail Gervits, Valery Grancher, Nadya Gurevich, Jeanine Hart, Robert Kalka, Matvei Yan Kilevich, Olga Kisseleva, Komar & Melamid, Jerry Lerner, John Lin, Beth Livensperger, Ivan Lunguine, Tomas Mike, Tristra Newyear, Igor Nourgaliev, Omar Olivera, Howardena Pindell, Alexandra Paperno, Alexander Popovic, Niko Punin, Dmitry Rozin, Alexander Rubchenko, Susana Ruiz, Rebecca Sack, Scherer and Ouporov, Drew Shiflett, Barbara Staulus, Tatiana Stolpovic, Konstantin Stupovski, Ilya Temkin, Konstantin Trubkovich, Sergei Tsvetkov, John Varoli, Igor Vishnyakov, Andrew Weinstein, Alexander Zakharov. Projected exhibition date: October 1999. ______________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com ------Syndicate mailinglist-------------------- Syndicate network for media culture and media art information and archive: http://www.v2.nl/syndicate to unsubscribe, write to <syndicate-request@aec.at> in the body of the msg: unsubscribe your@email.adress