[spectre] any news on the revolutions?

[Maria Chatzichristodoulou]

Hi Andreas, Jaromil

I know certain such organisations, and I'm sure many people on this list do
so too. Not surprisingly, those are mostly organisations that have chosen
not to depend on the privileges that institutional power systems offer on
the first place (i.e. They have chosen to forgo public funding).

One such space comes to mind immediately when I think of London, Backspace:
http://bak.spc.org/bakspc.html

Also, the Institute for the Art and Practice of Dissent at Home in Liverpool
(focused on performance and live arts, but potentially open to other
artforms as appropriate and possible re limited infrastructure):
http://www.twoaddthree.org/residencies/

Both 'organisations' (though this is not the right term), to my knowledge,
have consciously made a decision not to depend on public funding for their
artistic, social or other interventions.

I'm sure there are several other such
venues/organizations/communities/initiatives around the world

All best
Maria X

-- 
Dr Maria Chatzichristodoulou [aka Maria X]

Director of Postgraduate Studies
Lecturer in Theatre and Performance
School of Arts and New Media
University of Hull @ Scarborough
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On 10/03/2011 10:30, "Andreas Maria Jacobs" <ajaco at xs4all.nl> wrote:

> Hi Jaromill
> 
> I organized a public open call to express 'artistic' or 'intellectual'
> resistance regarding 'reclaiming the mind'.
> 
> http://nictoglobe.com/new/query2.html?d=home&f=rtm
> 
> Reclaiming the mind as a way to express a collective 'loosely coupled'
> dissent about the tight grip the usurpating media industry has on
> regulating 'artistic' expression
> 
> More than 50 individuals and collectives have submitted outstanding
> works to my 'subversive' online magazine as an answer to this call
> 
> Being cut off from cultural funding for years already , I rely
> completely on the good willingness and like mindedness of the
> participants to be able to organize a public screening of the
> resulting submitted works
> 
> When  trying to approach organizations in collaborating to accomplish
> these public screenings it get stuck on the money question, they all
> 'like' the idea but 'need' money to facilitate
> 
> So I am asking you: do you know of organizations in Europe willing to
> participate in projecting videoworks, distribute written essays and
> showing 'net' artpieces reflecting a dissent about the institutional
> power systems currently ruling Europe, without being afraid to loose
> the privileges these very same power systems are giving to the easy
> manipulated bunch of ego centered 'artists' and organizations?
> 
> I will be very gratefull to acquire your assistance
> 
> Meet me offline then
> 
> Best
> 
> Andreas Maria Jacobs
> 
> w: http://www.nictoglobe.com
> w: http://burgerwaanzin.nl
> 
> On 10 Mar 2011, at 10:05, Jaromil <jaromil at dyne.org> wrote:
> 
>> On Mon, 28 Feb 2011, Andreas Maria Jacobs wrote:
>> 
>>> "Fight the fascist corporate western democracies!"
>> 
>> good luck with that. the only people that could do it in Europe where
>> beaten up, imprisoned, stripped down, institutionalised and
>> marginalised by most public apparata operating in Europe in the past
>> 20 and more years. look into your own museums and try to imagine what
>> is really useful for what needs to be done today - and who is left to
>> do that.
>> 
>> FP7 security chapter is effectively spending most public money to
>> fence with barbwire and cameras the austerity stick that will be used
>> by the fascists and beaurocrats in power to tell us that we are the
>> losers (and not them). after all, Kali Yuga (the daemon) was an
>> exoteric nazi myth, for those who can recall it.
>> 
>> quoting from an email exchange i've had yesterday , RvK wrote:
>> 
>>  We are now in a city with 3000 cameras in public transport and over
>>  400 cameras surveilling the city for a physical dashboard of a dozen
>>  of control sets of about ten cameras that can zoom in and read your
>>  newspaper. If you came by car your registration number will be in
>>  the system tonight. If you came by public transport your face might
>>  be in a biometric system. After all about 40 persons in Rotterdam
>>  are banned from using public transport. With this system their
>>  presence can be silently beeped to the driver who can inform other
>>  staff.
>> 
>> [...]
>> 
>>  All this because we feel so bad about the 300 dead in Europe killed
>>  by terrorist attacks? Yes? In a 420.000 dead in traffic in EU 10
>>  year stretch. More people killing themselves year by year? More
>>  people dead of falling of a ladder? 58000 people kill themselves in
>>  the EU every year.  Maybe we try to make life a bit nicer?
>> 
>> EU is already sanitized enough for the cast that so far had access to
>> cultural funding to feel uncomfortable: all the others have been
>> deported already, they have disappeared silently and now you are
>> next. this is how it works. "now choose your numbers, miss Countess".
>> 
>> ciao
>> 
>> 
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