NEWS/NAUJIENOS
BETTER WORLD CONSTRUCTION
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[A proposal by Uruguayan artist Alejandro Turell to ask the Belgian microbiologist scientist (invited to perform scientist in the spectacular event HDI in Hasselt) to sign the paper about refusing from misuse of people and further their discrimination in the sense of inequality as it usually is demonstrated in the name of science. The scientist agreed finally with some limitations by simply saying that she does not agree with everything said in the paper, but follows the reasoning…]
REPORT ON DAMTP PSYCHIC ATTACK ON MANIFESTA 9 RELATED EVENT IN HASSELT
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The report is about DAMTP infiltration into the event of extreme eurocentrism in the essence and approach while involving wide range of international artists (majority as usually were white males).
*U** THE BIENN(i)AL(le). **C* THE [WHITE] OCCUPATION. F*** THE ART STRIKE
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[ACTIVE PSYCHIC WORKER‘S ABC]
Introduction fitting the main regulations by police, authorities and bourgeois art world
The text below is intended to serve as the mean for self-education and amusement. Better do not make copies, simply hide yourself at home, do art or go to work, and stay in fear!
1. What do we want?
Art world is in a process of neo-liberalization (i.e. privatization, commercialization, taxation) what makes the basic institution of art even less acceptable than it was when established in 18th century as a mean to gain privileged status for bourgeoisie and to start the total capitalist alienation and the specialization (including non specialized specialists) of the society.
We simply want to turn away from ongoing bourgeoisification of the psychic workers and data miners – many of them still call themselves being artists or in rare cases – art workers. We ask to quit with art production in support capitalist machine and to start production of meaning without giving a right for capitalists to distribute it. We demand immediate quite the exploitation of working people at the same time damaging their minds filling it with propagandized-diverted meaning just produced by themselves.
Nowadays we have reached the critical point of neo-liberalist biennalization of the art world what is nothing else but global corruption of the art system and industrialized privatization of the meaning fitting it to the customized standards and clichés. The customized forms of the culture are true forms of the colonization of mind, alienation of human beings and nature, humans and humans, humans and dead humans… etc. what lead towards further exploitation of all working people of the world.
Debiennalization – that is a newest approach – the kick into ass of seeming-to-be capitalist stability. Our task is to result the bloody convulsions of capitalist rites rooted in contemporary forms of biennialization.
INSTITUTIONAL RACISM IN THE LEFT
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But I was first struck by the true dimensions of that problem in 1970, when Faith and I attended a guerilla art action protest against Art Strike, which was itself a protest against ‘racism, war and repression’. A group of famous white male artists led by Robert Morris decided to withdraw their work from the Venice Biennale, a prestigious international exhibition, in order to protest US bombing of Cambodia and the murder of college students at Kent, Jackson and Augusta. Although the protest was supposed to be against ‘Racism, War, and Repression’ (sexism was not yet on their agenda), Art Strike then expected to mount a counter-Biennale in New York without altering the all-white male composition of the show. This seems to be the key to understanding the intrinsic limits of Western cultural avant-gardism: while it can no longer deny its own white male supremacist presuppositions it cannot be rid of them either.
In the first years of our feminism, working through an organization that we founded called Women Students and Artists for Black Art Liberation (WSABAL), Faith and others succeeded in opening this exhibition to women and people of color. WSABAL was also influential in the subsequent development of Ad Hoc Women Artists, led by Lucy Lippard. This group repeated WSABAL’s 50 per cent women demand in their protest against the Whitney Biennial, which was in the habit of including white male artists almost exclusively. Specifically because of Faith’s research and support of Ad Hoc, black women artists Barbara Chase Riboud and Bettye Saar were included in the next Whitney Biennial.
[Michele Wallace “Invisibility Blues”]
In 2009 artists in Alytus responded to the EU city of culture award to Vilnius, by declaring an Art Strike and hosting an Art Strike Biennial. I was involved with the IWW at the time and put forward the idea of creating a psychic workers union. This was to counter Bolshevik ideas of a division between cultural, political and economic organization of workers as well as the bourgeois Eurocentric ideas of art production as separate from other creative activities.
The Psychic workers union was indeed formed when I left the IWW in 2009 after briefly organizing with the Cambridge branch as they would not support the terms of myself and the Art Strikers of Alytus – so we created the DAta Miners Travailleurs Psychique. This summer we have been attacking the Manifesta Biennale, the Berlin Biennale and also linking up with the artists of the Dakar Biennale. We saw it imnportant to not only attack Eurocentric bourgeois culture at its source (the art biennial) but also in its neo-colonial form in Dakar, Senegal while also extending the hand of comradeship to the African black and coloured artists there.
This is not about identity politics – but about (re)defining what we mean by the Proletariat! Any situation is defined in Time, Space and Class – and its measurement begins with the here and now – our own situation as workers who are constructing it.
That’s why recent texts of the psychic workers are always talking about black power. The failure to link up the strikes (of workers), the protests (of students) and the riots (of the so-called “lumpen” proletariat) in a time when the most vulnerable in society are being hit by government cuts is not necessarily the sign of total defeat. Much is going on which is invisible - unrepresentatable – outside and beyond the surface of the spectacle. However international proletarian organizing and uprising will inevitably make contact with the spectacle in order to destroy it.
OPEN ADDRESS TO THE ARTISTS OF MANIFESTA 9
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Dear artists of the Manifesta Biennial and events related to it,
I write to you as a fellow worker. I have rejected the role of artist and become the DAta Miners Travailleurs Psychique (DAMTP)
DAMTP has been formed out of the Art Strike biennial of 2009 via discussions with the Industrial Workers of the World. So some other workers are also the DAMTP.
Our specific aim at the moment is to attack white supremacy, patriarch and bourgeois culture. These problems exist in art – and even in the protest movement by artists against the art system.
we will attack your role in the spectacle
we will attack your bourgoisification
we will attack your role in european bourgeois patriarchal serious culture
WE SUPPORT CULTURAL BOYCOTT: MTN BLACKOUT 20 DAYS CAMPAIGN
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we hereby join the Cultural Boycott: MTN Blackout 20 Days Campaign
Our site http://strike 2012.org will be blacked out for 20 days and show only info of the 20 Day Campaign
By forfeiting her livelihood and following in the foot steps of the conscientised South African top musicians, Lira's sacrifice and others must not be in vain and thus we and the people we associate with, in South Africa and Swaziland, have taken the decision to fofeit the luxury of receiving and making MTN calls, sms and so forth as from the 10th May untill after the Bush Fire Festival - 30th May 2012.
POUR LES ARTISTES DE LA BIENNALE DE DAKAR
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en francais:
Chers artistes de la Biennale de Dakar,
Je vous écris en tant que collègue. J'ai rejeté le rôle de l'artiste et deviennent les données des mineurs Travailleurs Psychique (DAMTP)
DAMTP a été formée à partir de la grève biennale d'art de 2009 grâce à des discussions avec les Industrial Workers of the World. Ainsi, certains travailleurs d'autres sont aussi les DAMTP.
Notre objectif spécifique pour le moment consiste à attaquer la suprématie blanche, le patriarche et la culture bourgeoise. Ces problèmes existent dans l'art - et même dans le mouvement de protestation des artistes contre
le système de l'art.
Nous allons vous aider à résister à la marchandisation
Nous vous aiderons dans votre révolutionnaire devient
Nous allons vous aider à développer votre travail au niveau international
La grève d'art en 1970 Grève artistique de New York contre le racisme, la guerre et la répression a été organisée par des artistes masculins exclusivement blancs. Il a été contrecarrée à la fois par les étudiants et les artistes femmes pour Black Art Libération (WSABAL), qui a réussi à ouvrir l'action de protestation pour les femmes et les personnes de couleur.
हड़ताल ہڑتال REFLECTIONS ON THE STRIKE IN WEST BENGAL AND INDIA 2012
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हड़ताल ہڑتال
प्रहार پرہار
विरोध – हड़ताल مخالفت - ہڑتال
तेल की खोज تیل کی تلاش
We took part in the biggest ever strike known to human history in February 28, 2012. The results were mixed and muted – not much written but here are some thoughts. Some of the debate around the strikes tended to polarise – i.e. create a 2 dimensional situation – a spectacle. e.g.
हड़ताल / बंद
Hartal ہڑتال / हड़ताल means strike – Bandh बंद means CLOSE or CLOSED. Both are used to denote a General Strike. Different people referred to it differently for political reasons.
In west Bengal the government referred to a bandh because bandh was banned in 1998. Chief Minister Mamata Banarjee for West Bengal – having called for bandhs herself when in opposition as leader of Trinamool Congress now apologised for this. Mamata of course should not be confused with Subodh Banarjee who popularlised the Ghereo – the encirclement of politicians or government offices until workers’ demands are met.
Hartal meaning strike has been a civil disobedience method used against British rule as well as against Princely state form in India for centuries. The action of stopping work also was used on the death of a leader or of many people as acts of mourning. Another variant which is common in Hindi-speaking regions is the bhukh hartal which translates as hunger strike.
عرس URS MUBARAK AT QABAR OF RAHMAT ALI CHAUDHRY 2012 عرس
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more on the issue: عرس URS MUBARAK AT QABAR OF RAHMAT ALI CHAUDHRY 2012 عرس
SOLIDARIZUOJAMĖS SU INDIJOS – DINIJOS - DARBININKŲ STREIKU - 2012 M. VASARIO 28 D.
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Šiandien mes prisijungiame prie didžiausio visų laikų streiko pasaulyje – stabdome bet kokią telepatinę ir/ar (psicho)elektroninę komunikaciją darbiniais tikslais: t.y. nesijungiame prie elektroninio pašto, nesiunčiame SMS žinučių, atsisakome bet kokios internetinės komunikacijos, išjungiame telefonus. O taip pat jokių komunikavimų su mirusiais, nemirusiais, gyvais ar dar negimusiais.
Visą komunikaciją nukreipsime prieš bosus ir valdytojus.
Tai bus reali ataka prieš kapitalistinės gamybos sistemą.
Taip kiekvienas individas bet kur pasaulyje galės prisijungti prie streiko laukinės katės stiliumi.
Ir to galima net neskelbti – bosams bus tik sunkiau susivokti ar tai atsitiko dėl techninių kliūčių, ar ne.
Bet kuriuo atveju sieksime, kad kapitalistinė gamyba būtų žlugdoma pasauliniu mastu.
SOLIDARITY WITH THE WORKERS STRIKE IN INDIA - DINIA - ON THE 28TH FEBRUARY 2012
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Today we join the biggest strike ever known - No psychic and electronic communication is to be undertaken for the purposes of work: This should include all Electronic mail, text messaging, w...ebmail, internet communication VOIP or telephony etc. Also to include any psychic communication with persons or beings dead, undead, alive or as yet unborn.
Communications are to be directed against the bosses and rulers.
This works as a real attack on capitalist production and allows individuals to join a general strike in wildcat style.
But it can be undeclared - bosses never know if it is by accident or not. Either way capitalist production is attacked on a global scale.
RECYCLE WHITE CULTURE
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On January 13th, 2012 Czech artist Martin Zet under the protection of Berlin Biennale ideologists published a call collect the copies of an openly racist anti-muslim Thilo Sarazzin‘s “Deutschland schafft sich ab” book from the German readers. This would be done through the established network of collection points around the country. Collected copies of the book would be then used to compose sculptures. After the Biennale show is over, the books are supposed to be recycled for better purposes. As a result of such proposal, Martin faced a blast of furious counter-reaction from both media and the public (for example
http://www.berlinbiennale.de).
The Heinrich Heine slogan „Dort wo man Bücher verbrennt, verbrennt man am Ende auch Menschen“ ("Those who burn books will end up burning people") is embraced by neo-Nazis resisting the suppression of their “democratic freedom of speech“. One thing was Heine‘s point of view, but the true social-Darwinism doesn’t proceed "backwards" – those who have burned people once don't step back to burn books again. In Germany today they don’t burn books but still burn people, like Oury Jalloh (born in 1968 in Kabala, Sierra Leone, killed on the 7th January 2005 in the police cell in Dessau, Germany; see http://thevoiceforum.org).
DAMTP CALL TO BURN AND EAT ON DECEMBER 12TH, 2011
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On December 12th, 2011 DAMTP in a concert with DEWOU-DAMTP invites for synchronized public eating & burning of bourgeois cultural propaganda.
Burn (or eat) the comics drawn by Marina Naprushkina or whatever else gallery oriented critically looking stuff!
Burn (or munch) Berlin Biennial papers!
Burn (or devour) copies of the 1884 the General Act of the Berlin Conference!
BURN BERLIN BABY BURN! DEVOUR CANNIBALIZED MUNCH!
December 12th is a double anniversary for the first crusade committing to cannibalism after the burning of Ma'arrat al-Numan and also for Nazi Lebensborn Project.
DAMTP is looking forward to develop a hypergraphical/situgraphical experiment from this December 12th event - based on burning or eating.