[spectre] Victims' Symptom debate May 17-23: join the curator, artists and theorists online]

[Ana Peraica]

Victims? Symptom, commissioned by LabforCulture and curated by Ana 
Peraica (Croatia/The Netherlands), invites you to participate in an 
online debate from May 17-23, 2008 at http://victims.labforculture.org.

This open, public debate, conceptualised and moderated by Ana Peraica 
and co-moderated by art theorist, critic and performance artist Peter 
Fuchs (Hungary), brings together participating artists and theorists in 
a series of online discussions around the concept and image of 'the 
victim' as it is used in contemporary society.

Join the debate via a special online chat interface accessible from May 
17-23 at http://victims.labforculture.org/site/debate/debate and read 
the full debate schedule at 
http://victims.labforculture.org/site/debate/schedule

In preparation for the discussions, visit the Victims? Symptom website, 
which features texts by: Sezgin Boynik (Kosovo), Adila Laidi-Hanieh 
(Palestine), Geert Lovink (The Netherlands) and Stevan Vukovic (Serbia). 
Victims? Symptom also presents a series of online artworks specifically 
commissioned for this project by: Mauricio Arango (Colombia/USA), 
Alejandro Duque (Colombia/Switzerland), Andreja Kuluncic (Croatia), 
Marko Peljhan (Slovenia) and Martha Rosler (USA). A number of 
interviews, an online glossary, and links to a number of related texts 
and projects selected through an open call, round off the project.

You are also invited to leave your comments and impressions on all of 
the texts, interviews and artworks on the Victims? Symptom website 
throughout the duration of the project.
Victims? Symptom was commissioned in the summer of 2007 to mark 
LabforCulture?s first anniversary. The convergence of ideas, artistic 
perspectives and technologies is a key element of the work of 
LabforCulture in stimulating cultural collaboration and facilitating 
intercultural dialogue across Europe.

Further information:
1.    Go online http://victims.labforculture.org The online debate runs 
from 17 - 23 May 2008
2.    Press information contact: Nicola Mullenger: nicola at labforculture.org
3.    LabforCulture is a partnership initiative of the European Cultural 
Foundation and is grateful for the support provided by its funders.
4.    LabforCulture is a unique tool for artists, cultural 
professionals, organisations and networks across the 50 countries of 
Europe, and a platform for cultural cooperation between Europe and the 
rest of the world. It provides a wide range of linked information from 
funding possibilities to cultural news and through their open community 
space the arts and culture sector can post blogs, search contacts 
through the online profiles or simply make an announcement about an arts 
event. The site is in five languages: English, French, German, Polish 
and Spanish. http://www.labforculture.org/