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            <td>Invitation to Sign Open Letter and Support Fund for Maja
              Smrekar & Defending Artistic Freedom</td>
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            <td>Mon, 7 Jul 2025 02:37:01 +0000</td>
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            <th valign="BASELINE" nowrap="nowrap" align="RIGHT">Von: </th>
            <td>Jens Hauser <a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:zqx635@sund.ku.dk"><zqx635@sund.ku.dk></a></td>
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            <td>Jens Hauser <a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:jenshauser@sfr.fr"><jenshauser@sfr.fr></a></td>
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                                <p class="">Dear friends and colleagues!</p>
                                <p class=""><span
                                    class="x_x_gmail_default">I hope you
                                    are well.</span></p>
                                <p class="">I’m writing to invite you,
                                  as one of the potentially first
                                  signatories, to sign and share an
                                  urgent Open Letter in solidarity with
                                  Slovenian artist Maja Smrekar, Golden
                                  Nica at Ars Electronica 2017 for her <a
href="https://www.majasmrekar.org/k-9topology-cyberarts-2017-prix-ars-electronica-exhibition"
                                    class="" moz-do-not-send="true">K-9</a> and
                                  and <a
href="https://www.majasmrekar.org/k-9topology-hybrid-family" class=""
                                    moz-do-not-send="true">Hybrid Family</a> project,
                                  to support her to take legal action
                                  against the Slovenian Democratic Party
                                  (SDS) for unauthorized use of her
                                  artwork, defamation, and the
                                  incitement of public hostility.</p>
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                              <div class="">As you may be already know,
                                in the lead-up to Slovenia’s 10 May 2025
                                referendum on pension reforms for
                                awarded artists, SDS escalated its
                                long-running culture war. The <a
href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/may/10/slovenia-to-vote-in-referendum-on-artist-pension-that-has-fostered-culture-war"
                                  class="" moz-do-not-send="true">party
                                  weaponized Maja’s internationally
                                  acclaimed <span
                                    class="x_x_gmail_default">artwork</span>
                                  <i class="">K-9 Topology: Hybrid
                                    Family</i> by flooding public spaces
                                  with decontextualized billboard images</a>—without
                                her knowledge or consent—framing her
                                work as a symbol of moral and cultural
                                decay, and ‘degenerated art’. Since
                                then, Maja has been subjected to a
                                sustained campaign of harassment,
                                including<span class="x_x_gmail_default">
                                  in public and private space. </span>These
                                tactics mirror a growing global trend:
                                authoritarian regimes targeting artists
                                to suppress dissent, distort public
                                discourse, and stifle freedom of
                                expression<span
                                  class="x_x_gmail_default"> - our
                                  fundamental rights. </span>Maja has
                                therefore decided to take legal
                                action—an individual stand against the
                                machinery of Slovenia’s largest and most
                                financially powerful political party of
                                the past 30 years. This is not only a
                                fight for her personal integrity, but a
                                broader struggle for artistic freedom
                                and a direct response to the unlawful
                                political exploitation of her work.</div>
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                                Your signature would help this week’s
                                launch of an international platform
                                and legal defense fund you may consider
                                donating to, initiated by <span class="">Ewen
                                  Chardronnet </span>(author, editor, <a
                                  href="http://makery.info/" class=""
                                  moz-do-not-send="true">Makery.info</a>), <span
                                  class="">Jens Hauser</span> (curator),
                                <span class="">Dalila Honorato</span> (Taboo-Transgression-Transcendence,
                                Ionian University), <span class="">Tatiana
                                  Kourochkina</span> (Quo Artis) and <span
                                  class="">Uros Veber</span> (producer,
                                Projekt Atol): </div>
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                              <div class=""><a
href="https://openletter.earth/in-defense-of-artistic-freedom-support-legal-action-against-political-abuse-56f1c0d0"
                                  class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
                                  moz-do-not-send="true">https://openletter.earth/in-defense-of-artistic-freedom-support-legal-action-against-political-abuse-56f1c0d0</a><br
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                              <div class=""><a
                                  href="https://artkinship.org/"
                                  class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
                                  moz-do-not-send="true">https://artkinship.org/</a><br
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                                Thanks in advance for your support
                                and solidarity,</div>
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                              <div class="">Jens HAUSER</div>
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                                <div class="">+33 6 79 85 79 39</div>
                                <div class=""><a
href="https://ku-dk.academia.edu/JensHauser"
                                    class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
                                    moz-do-not-send="true">https://ku-dk.academia.edu/JensHauser</a></div>
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                              <div class="">PS: <a
href="https://www.degruyterbrill.com/document/doi/10.1515/9783689240110/html?lang=en"
                                  class="" moz-do-not-send="true">Life
                                  is Other</a>, just published;
                                including an edited version of the <a
href="https://www.majasmrekar.org/k-9topology-hybrid-family" class=""
                                  moz-do-not-send="true">Hybrid Family
                                  blog</a> with Maja Smrekar & Jens
                                Hauser</div>
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