[spectre] any news on the revolutions?

[Andreas Maria Jacobs]

Thank you Maria

for pointing in the right direction!

Love

Andreas
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On Thu, March 10, 2011 11:44, Maria Chatzichristodoulou wrote:
> 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
>
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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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