[iDC] More on Wafaa Bilal and RPI

[Andrew Mount]

See as how Bilal¹s work has already employed the web, and the govt have the
power to shut down a server if they want to (but they haven't), isn't this
an interesting example of the precious power of physicality? The web has
just as much ability to operate the motors that object-based art does
(beauty, scale, etc etc etc), yet in its virtual existence, its not seen as
such an immediate threat.
There has just been a far more overt, related circumstance of censorship in
Kosovo that seemed to express to me as I read through it the physicality of
art, and the difference this brings up.
Hmmm.
BTW, yes, gophers all around. Moles just get killed by cats.
Regards
A

On 3/12/08 10:28 AM, "Simon Biggs" <s.biggs at eca.ac.uk> wrote:

> 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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