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Sislej Xhafa (Job Centre) and his wife arrive from NYC..they already started to build the wall for his installation..right next to the university.. Andreja Kuluncic (distributive justice) got her furnitures today, look great, really good done…we are happy 'bout that..Andreja and Igor start to set up things..they arrived yesterday..bellissimo presents the stickers we wanted to have already 3 monthsago…for what they serve now?? we have to cut the installation from ARTLAB (Internal cinema - Project for Prisoners)..one meter too high..also the MANAVA (afterall.tv) space we have to redo..the acoustic insulation panels were not fixed like they wanted..Michelangelo shows up today…good!..he can make some fire under some asses.. Manava sends the URL from their new website..next day, 17th already.. Fran Ilich (modem drama) arrives from Mexico..he brings Tequila.. about 10 more artists come today..Fran starts to work right away on the website for Modem Drama..after talking to Fran all our doubts regarding his project are gone..we didn't have a good wire the last months..now things look much brighter..we're looking forward to see the Modem Drama the first time..lunch break…does this look like we open in 2 days? |
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thank's God, you sent Lorenzo…really..what we'd do without this man? that's the way everybody should work: trying to make the best out of the possibilities..but too much people loosing time/energy in complaining and comparing with better situations. didn't we say its a big social game? why do so many think it's just a big show? this is, first of all, a high risk..where 99% of the projects are proccesses, 99% are written in the sky..anyway in two days we have to touch down! Hans Op de Beeck (Border) is here now too! Colectivo Cambalache understands the big social game in their best sense: they organize parties every night..on night in Bar Amantes, the next one on a square..the people from FoAM Organisation (TxOom) are worried, their very complex and technical installation never will be ready for the opening..Maia and friends are confident, although nothings ready.. they are now painting the logicaland-worldmap on the floor.. |
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big troubles with Everyone is an Expert..they show us what we didn't know - 1000's of newspapers and stickers they printed with a headline saying "Basta Berlusconi, Bossi, Fini, benvenuti Clandestini"..big discussions, also with a lot of other artists about the problem of political provocation. we don't like to have this cheap hammer in the media-foreground…all other projects would be ignored..our argument why we would skip this sentence from everywhere: its not wise to say "Basta.." and in the next moment to invite imigrants..which imigrant wants to be first identified with a "critic" against the government and then to inscribe him/herself into a public database? we discuss hours and hours…finally we leave it open to them and say: we saw these publications the first time now, would you have shown us when we were selecting things, we would have then criticized it..no the project itself, but what you want to put as a slogan over the idea..now, you change this sentence, like for instance say just "benvenuti clandestini!" or you decide to leave the frame of the biennial. beside that we find the "Basta.." idea artistically flat and politally unwise, we see that the directors of the biennial are much more worried.."why putting oil on the fire of the right wing; they only wait for a cheap provocation like that offend us.." ..we all liked the project expertbase a lot..we worked for it a lot… but Everyone is an Expert decides not to change anything and leaves.. what did we learn? did we learn what since then rTMark and Everyone is an Expert is spreading? that we are in "a climate of fear and fascism" or we see that artists understand more about politics than activists about art? or simply that this isn't Germany, this isn't America..and it wasn't..even before Berlusconi.. free speach in danger? have a look to the other ~120 projects.. and write an e-mail if you want to discuss this or any other mentioned problem directly with us. regarding the rTMark problem with their karaoke project we don't want to loose any words here - their half-truths can be reat on their website..if somebody doesn't now to differentiate a LAW from a CENSORSHIP it must be because the hype is more important than communication. heyyy! ciao Faisal Abdu'Allah (Garden of Eden), good to see you again..hope you feel well in Torino! your halfmirrorspaces are awaiting you already..Maria will help you..c u bro.. 19th of April 2002 - 17:00, we all worked the whole night yesterday, |
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