[iDC] More on Wafaa Bilal and RPI

[Pauline Oliveros]

Great idea Simon!

Popping up like gophers everywhere

Thanks,

PO

On Wed, Mar 12, 2008 at 5:26 AM, Simon Biggs <s.biggs at eca.ac.uk> wrote:

>  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 doesn't 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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