[NetBehaviour] [spectre] looks like Slovenia might be next

Thu Jun 16 15:23:07 CEST 2011

You know one of my goals is to start a house and a network where we can host
individuals and projects both artistic and social. I bought a big flat, will
always have place for creative guests :)
Ana

ps: In Uruguay is a very active Netart scene, with people as Brian Mackern
http://www.liveperformersmeeting.net/2011/en/artists/brian-mackern/

Clemente Padin
http://www.vispo.com/guests/ClementePadin/Text_I_67.html

Carlos Capelan
http://www.capelan.com/

Patricia Bentancur
ttp://www.arteuy.com.uy/BentancurP/patriciaBioEnglish.htm

On Thu, Jun 16, 2011 at 2:40 PM, Andreas Maria Jacobs <ajaco at xs4all.nl>wrote:

> Hi Anna
>
> Wish I could join you, my late grandfather went to Brazil from Germany
> during the crises of the 30ties.
>
> I am still attracted towards doing the same
>
> Our hopes are definitively directed towards the rise of The South as a
> natural historical possibility to continue the age old European project.
>
> Abandoned by the selfish survival attitude of the North, the South can
> combine its passionate will to live with a matured rationality.
>
> Also it can develop an independent global economical position, being able
> to stand firmly against a future Asian domination.
>
> An interesting read, touching deeply this scenario, is 'The Clash of
> Civilisations and the remaking of World Order' by Samuel Huntington
>
> Best
>
> Andreas Maria Jacobs
>
>
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> On Thu, June 16, 2011 13:12, Ana Valdés wrote:
> > That's one of the reasons I am moving back to South America. Once, in the
> > Seventies, when we were young and a bit naive, we believed in the
> > Messianic
> > Revolutions. We fought against rogue generals and corrupt politicians and
> > we
> > paid a heavy prize, prison, torture, death.
> > Many of us come to Europe, the continent of our ancestors (I have Spanish
> > and Italian grandfathers and grandmothers) and got asylum and a time to
> > recover. Our ancestors fled from an empoverished Europe who prosecuted
> the
> > poor and the rebelious.
> > Now in South America every people in the region choose a leftist or
> social
> > democrat alternative, not because they dream about utopia but because
> they
> > are tired of neoliberal experiments.
> > Europe is going again the way of authoritarism and control who chased
> away
> > my ancestors from here.
> > I am going back to Uruguay to find a space and a place to resist and
> > create.
> > I hope many of you in the list can be part of future projects linking the
> > North and the South. Maybe we can make the global diaspora to a
> borderless
> > creative world :)
> >
> > Ana
> >
> > On Thu, Jun 16, 2011 at 1:01 PM, Simon Biggs <simon at littlepig.org.uk>
> > wrote:
> >
> >> It is something big; sweeping global social change arising from economic
> >> realignment. Post-crash Europe is going through a socio-economic
> >> realignment
> >> that recognises the emerging dominance of international trade and
> >> cultural
> >> exchange by countries such as China, India and Brazil. As part of this
> >> process countries that once sustained values founded on social
> >> democratic
> >> principles are having to adapt their economies (material and cultural)
> >> to
> >> the instrumentalist models that underpin the emergent economies capacity
> >> to
> >> out-perform their competitors. The Anglo-American model has been under
> >> pressure at the same time, leading to the progressive collapse of the
> >> social
> >> contracts that underpinned them. We are moving from the European
> >> millennium
> >> to the Asian.
> >>
> >> Best
> >>
> >> Simon
> >>
> >>
> >> On 16/06/2011 10:55, "Andreas Broeckmann" <ab at dortmunder-u.de> wrote:
> >>
> >> > the Slovenian government wants to cut the cultural budget by 38 mio
> >> euros.
> >> >
> >> > (is this an accidental series, or are we
> >> > observing the erosion of something big?)
> >> >
> >> >
> >> >
> >> > Delo - Slowenien
> >> > Slowenien streicht Kulturetat zusammen
> >> >
> >> > Die slowenische Mitte-Links-Regierung hat am
> >> > Mittwoch ihren Entwurf für den Haushaltsplan 2012
> >> > vorgelegt und will im Kulturetat 38 Millionen
> >> > Euro streichen. Das ist viermal so viel wie bei
> >> > anderen Ressorts, rechnet die linksliberale
> >> > Tageszeitung Delo vor und vermisst Verständnis
> >> > für die gesellschaftliche Funktion der Kultur:
> >> > "Normalerweise sind die Mitglieder des Nationalen
> >> > Kulturrats eher zurückhaltend. Doch nun waren sie
> >> > so getroffen, dass sie mit Vorwürfen an die
> >> > Regierung und Gegenargumenten wenig zurückhaltend
> >> > waren. Der Haushalt bedeutet tiefe Einschnitte.
> >> > Nun drohen auch dem Projekt Kulturhauptstadt
> >> > Maribor 2012 große Probleme. Aufgeschoben würden
> >> > zudem Filmproduktionen, Investitionen in die Oper
> >> > Ljubljana, die Kunstgalerie Maribor und so
> >> > weiter. ... Eine sichtlich verarmte
> >> > Kulturlandschaft provoziert die berechtigte
> >> > Frage, ob unsere Regierung die grundsätzliche
> >> > Rolle der Kultur für die Entwicklung jedes
> >> > einzelnen Menschen, des Volks und des Staats
> >> > vergessen hat." (16.06.2011)
> >> >
> >> > http://www.delo.si/mnenja/komentarji/leta-nazadovanja.html
> >> > (externer Link, slowenisch)
> >> >
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> >>
> >> Simon Biggs
> >> simon at littlepig.org.uk
> >> http://www.littlepig.org.uk/
> >>
> >> s.biggs at eca.ac.uk
> >> http://www.elmcip.net/
> >> http://www.eca.ac.uk/circle/
> >>
> >>
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