José Luis Brea <jlbrea@aleph-arts.org> on Thu, 22 Apr 1999 13:21:49 +0200


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Re: Syndicate: black curtain for war victims ...


hi, valery grancher,

i´ve translated your e-mail (to spanish) and forwarded it to our ::forum::
mailing list.

please, find two spanish proposals similar to yours at:

http://www.abaforum.es/merzmail 
http://www.teleline.es/personal/stidna


jlb

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At 09:45 21/04/99 +0100, you wrote:
>[the euro-english in this message can be a bit misleading at some points,
>but i think it is clear what valery has in mind; apologies for the
>interference; -a]
>
>From: valery grancher <vgranger@imaginet.fr>
>
>
>To all of you,
>
>Following different events and how is evolving this war context
>specially on mediatic level, I would like to share some thoughts with
>all of you:
>Since several weeks nothing has changed and war innocent victims are
>getting more and more pain and are dying under TV camera and various
>media as internet... and all of us, I guess want to stop it...
>All around this war there is inflation of images and noise:
>
>- debate noise
>- bombs noise
>- ideology noise
>- war images
>- victims images
>- bombing images
>- Pain images
>
>Through our net activism we are bringing more and more images, sign and
>texts and nothing is changing !!!!!
>May be we are becoming a kind of  agent of 'the society spectacle' as
>Debord defined. Until a little moment we will be included in the global
>noise !!!! and we will loose our protest, position, and ethics ....
>
>How to fight against that ?
>
>I'm suggesting to make an art protest stronger and more pacific by
>breaking the "spectacle logic" (as Debord defined), by now making a big
>silence, by disapperaing in front of all of the eyes .....
>
>We should now make a black screen whithout anything, dedicated to dead
>victims in this war ...
>I suggest also to all of us to make our website as a black screen during
>this war to protest ....
>
>I started today to shut up my website and we launch a big movement on
>the web to invite everybody to shut up his website for one day on next
>may 1st.
>check this black screen at my URL:
>http://www.imaginet.fr/nomemory
>
>this balck screen is a black background with black text (H1):
>
>This black curtain is dedicated to the War victims until the kosovar
>genocyd continue and until the NATO          bombing will continue.We
>decided to stop to partcipate to the "spectacle society" by putting a
>black screen to my website!We have to fight against war for peace and
>dignity!!!!
>This screen  is dedicated to WAR victims !!!!!
>
>This black screen during one day on May 1st 1999 should be an
>international "one minute of silence" dedicated to innocents war victims
>all around the world an specially to kosovo ....
>
>Please keep me informed about who's participating to this movement...
>Forward thie email to your circle contact ...
>
>Valery Grancher
>vgranger@imaginet.fr
>http://www.imaginet.fr/nomemory
>
>
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