[iDC] More on Wafaa Bilal and RPI

[Simon Biggs]

No gopher¹s in Scotland. Some moles. They also have an appropriately
rhizomic-like existence. Perhaps this is an example of rhizomic curating.
The project could take it title from that connection (eg: Gopher)?

Regards

Simon


On 12/3/08 14:19, "Pauline Oliveros" <paulineo at deeplistening.org> wrote:

> 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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>> Simon Biggs
>> 
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Simon Biggs

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edinburgh college of art
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