[iDC] More on Wafaa Bilal and RPI

Simon Biggs s.biggs at eca.ac.uk
Wed Mar 12 09:26:37 UTC 2008


What about turning the show into an exercise in urban guerilla curating. If
possible, open the show in a different venue every night. If the authorities
close it down it doesn¹t matter as it will be opening somewhere else the
next day. If they impound the work then you have made your point that this
is a clear case of political censorship, which I imagine a good lawyer could
turn into an interesting case. It also means you can have an opening bash
every night.

Regards

Simon


On 11/3/08 21:43, "Brian Holmes" <brian.holmes at wanadoo.fr> wrote:

> Hello everyone -
> 
> Thanks to all of you who wrote back (and especially, who wrote to RPI
> president Jackson) about this clash. Now you should know the latest:
> Wafaa Bilal's show has been restaged in the nearby Sanctuary for
> Independent Media and guess what? The police has closed it on a
> building code technicality.
> 
> See: 
> http://thesanctuaryforindependentmedia.org
> 
> And for a complete strory of the affair with links:
> http://thesanctuaryforindependentmedia.org/node/120
> 
> All of this is going very far and looks like a true case of hysteria.
> The symbolic gap between a cosmopolitan outlook able to understand what
> is going on from an Iraki point of view and a pure America first
> rejection of anything foreign is frightening to behold.
> 
> Your support still matters.
> 
> best, Brian
> 
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Simon Biggs

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