[spectre] Valencia Biennial Invite Returned

[Technologies To The People]

Hi

thanks a lot for returned the invitation to show in my city

We have a very intense discussion with respect to this subject.  A 
group of citizen groups is making an alternative calendar of 
roundtables and debate around problematicas related to these topics.
All the information can be found in e-valencia.org, but unfortunately 
the language is Castilian and Catalan.


I am interested in all the information that can be facilitated on 
this subject of the controversial biennial.

Thank you very much


daniel
technologies to the people


>  >May 20th, 2003
>>
>>An Open Letter returning an invitation to the Valencia Biennial 2003
>>
>>--Barbaric war and occupation in Iraq by the coalition is protested--
>>
>>The art and performance collaborative known as Praxis (Delia Bajo and
>>Brainard Carey) have returned their invitation to participate in the
>>Valencia Biennial.
>>This Spanish and American husband and wife team have returned the biennial
>>invitation to protest the current occupation and war in Iraq by the
>>coalition that includes Spain and the United States.
>>Delia Bajo is a native of Madrid, Spain while Brainard Carey is from
>>Manhattan.
>>
>>Their statement:
>>
>>While we are grateful to be invited to the Valencia Biennial by William
>>Alsop of Alsop Architects, we must in all due respect not accept the
>>invitation.
>>At a time in the world when a so-called "coalition" including Spain and the
>>United States team up to launch an obscene war and occupation in Iraq, we
>>cannot remain silent in the International context of the Valencia Biennial.
>>There is nothing more callous and shortsighted than the aggressive war in
>>Iraq resulting in the loss of innocent lives and homes and the looting and
>>destruction of museums.
>>As a Spaniard and an American we are profoundly embarrassed by our
>>respective countries and their act of war upon Iraq which continues to be
>>absurd -as the motive for the war has still to be proved since no chemical
>>weapons of mass destruction have been found!
>>We are saddened that we live amongst governmental barbarians.
>>As artists, we cannot in good conscience continue our work without drawing
>>attention to the irony and blindness of this war and occupation.
>>
>>
>>Artists Biography
>>
>>Delia Bajo and Brainard Carey are an art collaborative known as Praxis who
>>have exhibited their work in the Whitney Biennial 2002 as well as the
>Museum
>>of Modern art in New York and other major venues. The general themes of
>>their work involve an examination of social fabric and the process by which
>>a community comes together.
>>Their projects involve performance, video and painting.
>
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