[rohrpost] From Rhizome, on Kurtz

[Marlena Corcoran]

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> Date: June 11, 2004 9:00:02 AM CEST
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> Subject: Is Free Speech a Form of Terrorism?
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> June 11, 2004
> Is Free Speech a Form of Terrorism?
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> In the dim morning hours of May 11, 2004, American artist Steve Kurtz, 
> a member of the internationally-acclaimed art collective Critical Art 
> Ensemble, called 911 to tell dispatchers that his wife Hope had passed 
> away in her sleep. When police arrived at the couple's Buffalo, New 
> York, home, they discovered that Kurtz posessed a mobile DNA 
> extraction laboratory, part of the Critical Art Ensemble's latest art 
> project, 'Free Range Grain'. The small labortory was being used to 
> test food for possible genetic tampering -- an endeavor quite in 
> keeping with the Critical Art Ensemble's emphasis on revealing and 
> resisting bio-imperialism. Saturated with post-September 11 
> anti-terror rhetoric, the police called in the FBI to investigate, 
> and, on June 8, seven subpoenas were issued to artists associated with 
> the Critical Art Ensemble, including Kurtz. The artists are to appear 
> before a Federal Grand Jury on June 15. A protest is being planned for 
> the same day at 9 a.m. ou! tside the courthouse in Buffalo, New York, 
> at 138 Delaware Ave. A defense fund has also been established, and 
> suggestions for ways to support Kurtz and the Critical Art Ensemble 
> are available on the CAE Defense Fund website. - Lewis LaCook
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