[DAMTP comment: the appeal was addressed to the Embassies of neighbouring countries, EU Member States, Norway, Canada, the USA and international organisations, and served as Invitation for Lithuanian institutions and individual persons, as well as the Lithuanian communities worldwide, to join in this appeal. Furthermore, the same state security, law, justice and mass information structures showed interest in hiding the hugest scandals during the last years and sophisticated it‘s real issues. The investigations on many cases as collapsed Nuclear Power Station building project – LEO LT, or Vilnius - European Cultural Capital 2009 program‘s laundering and many many others – those cases still even not started to be revised. Also worth to be pointed out that support of this particular case is consciously devaluated by the Lithuanian bourgeoisie – the supporters are treated being some lowerest class, while majority of „cultural“ people are distancing themselves from the case. We think this case essentially reveals the modus operandi of law enforcement authorities and the whole state power apparatus (including cultural) and not only in Lithuania.].


We are urgently referring to you for international help with regard to a girl victimised by the Lithuanian law enforcement authorities. She is seven years old and her story is extremely dramatic.

Привет друзья,

да, вы правы, но гораздо жестче проблема есть отчуждение художника от просто свободного человека - и это только маленькая часть тотальной буржуазно-капиталистической специализации - по большему счету художник ни чем не отличается от политика - обе специализации есть про тотальной краже - большинство людей отчуждены от того, что принадлежит каждому свободному человеку - право на причастноть на принятие решений и право на свободу самовыражения.

Это и есть главной изходной точькой алитусских инициатив и худзабостовок. Кстати зрелищность не только (обычно) не придает еффективности, но наоборот - ваш реальный риск превращает в спектакль.

Это и есть почему мы приняли решение не идентифицироваться с артмиром и назвали себя с почетом самому нижнему пролетарьянскому слою - психические рабочие (те, которые создают смысл и требует контроля им диспонировать) и шахтеры данных.

Наша цель - всеобщая забастовка, а не привилегии для прослойки буржуазных художников и активистов!

Свобода возможна или сразу для всех или это просто очередная буржуазная привилегия. Все довольно сложно, но разберемся!

Свободного Нового Года!

Самоцензура и политкорректность - вот от чего необходимо избавляться художнику в первую очередь. Но избавление самого художника (самым ярким примером стал жест Дениса Лимонова в письме "Преступление совести") не есть избавление общества. Поиском и реализацией новых
художественных и провокационных жестов, направленных на вскрытие этих двух злокачественных опухолей нашего общества группа "Липовый цвет" займется в Новом году!

С Наступающим вас, дорогие друзья! Желаем в новом году избавляться от этих вредных привычек!))))

ваши Кэт, Юлий, Ира, Денис!

SELF-CENSORSHIP AND POLITICAL CORRECTNESS [translation]

November 11^th, 2011 at 8PM Denis Limonov – a member of the literature-gang "Lipovy Tsvet" (double meaning having term: Spurious Color or Lime Blossom) arranged an unscheduled action-experiment "Turmoil” in the bus No. 23 in Mogilev (Belarus). The name for the action was chosen later on the basis of the reaction by the bus passengers. This action could be considered as socio-political actionism. Passengers in the bus became hostages of the situation. They were forced to listen to a kind of revelation by some no longer able to keep quiet a slightly drunk man who decided to take a desperate step - to declare publicly evidence of continual violations of people’s rights and so to express his own civic position. But in this case he used language of slogans and pathos. Passengers do not understand what was happening. Their defensive reaction, based on fear and it’s masking by any kind of "normality", "honesty", "adequacy" made it impossible to take the situation seriously. Thus, Limonov immediately fell into an image of the "urban idiot" and likely attitude was dictated by the cliché. The reactions of some passengers (like a girl-doll grown-up by MTV and MuzTV kind of channels, or working class looking man - that needs a separate article to be written.

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Soon after the placing the video on youtube it evoked strong public reaction in blogosphere and strengthened the desire of some people to confine members of “Lipovy Tsvet” into a mental hospital. You can get more detailed information from this link (in Russian) <http://yakizdat.livejournal.com/86440.html>

This event (in a concert with soon afterwards to appear Denis Limonov’s acknowledgement in his presence in terrorist act in metro station Octyabrskaya so to stop execution of death sentence to Konovalov and Kovalev) as a handle for Belarusian police to start investigation against members of the group. At the moment they are hiding from the police aggression.

220030, г.Минск,
ГСП ул.Интернациональная, 22
генеральному прокурору РБ
Конюку А.В.

Арт-группа «Липовый цвет» спешит сообщить вам о своей причастности к терактам в минске 2008 года (точную дату не помним), 14 сентября 2005, 22 сентября 2005 – Витебске и 11 апреля на станции минского метро «Октябрьская». Спешим проинформировать вас о готовности наших боевиков дать признательные показания, и предоставить новую информацию по этим уголовным делам в установленной законодательством форме. Также готовы предоставить полную информацию о нашей связи с террористическими группами ведущими свою деятельность на территории европейских стран. Основным мотивом наших преступлений против общественной совести была деэскалация крупномасштабного политического террора в республике, посредством планирования и проведения локальных взрывов, а также привлечение общественного внимания к проблеме конституционного фашизма в республике. Арт-группа объявляет свои преступления художественным произведением и посвящает их жертвам кровавой государственной машины. Просим вас учесть степень крайности нашего аффекта и невротизации, всвязи с неполнотой сведений по делу Коновалова и Ковалева и нашей готовностью пойти на отчаянные поступки, если наше признание не будет принято к рассмотрению, о чем просим уведомить нас повесткой.

С презрением, Денис Лимонов

http://lipovytsvet.blogspot.com/2011/12/blog-post_6385.html#!/2011/12/blog-post_6385.html

LETTER BY DENIS LIMONOV TO GENERAL PROSECUTOR OF REPUBLIC OF BELARUS

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On December 12th, 2011 DAMTP in a concert with DEWOU-DAMTP invited for synchronized public eating & burning of bourgeois cultural propaganda so to commemorate first crusade's committing to cannibalism after the burning of Ma'arrat al-Numan and also for Nazi Lebensborn Project.

The action in Alytus was based on eating, devouring, munching & burning activities and further developed into hypergraphical/situgraphical experiment.

Группа "Липовый цвет" в рамках Global Art Project провела акцию солидарности с нефтянниками г. Жанаозен (Казахстан), а также семьями погибших и пострадавших. Акция прошла 19.12.2011 около ст. м. "Площадь Победы" в районе 22.00 по Минскому времени. Символическая дата 19 декабря имеет прямое отношение к событиям 2010 года на пл. Независимости, когда режим Лукашенко в который раз показал истинное свое лицо, разгоняя и избивая мирных граждан. Сегодня в Казахстане "цепные псы" Назарбаева убивают рабочих нефтянников. Мы призываем всех небезразличных граждан, всевозможные институции и сообщества объединять свои усилия в протесте и сопротивлении. Диктаторские режимы во всем мире не имеют права на своё существование ценою жизни граждан.

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In the framework of Global Art Project art group "Lipovy Tsvet" held a rally of solidarity with oilers of Zhanaozen (Kazakhstan) and with families killed and injured. The rally was held 19.12.2011 near subway station "Victory Square "in the 22:00 of Minsk time. Symbolic event 19 December is directly related to the events of 2010 on the Square of
Independence, when the Lukashenko regime once again demonstrated his true face, chasing and beating up innocent civilians. Now "dogs" of Nazarbayev is killing oilers in Kazakhstan . We encourage all citizens, who are not indifferent to this problem, and also various institutions and communities to join forces in protest and resistance. Dictatorial regimes around the world have no right to existence at the expense of living its citizens.

Вот уже второй день как восстали ваши братья -- бастующие нефтяники Западного Казахстана, спровоцированные властями на решительные действия. Второй день практически безоружные люди бьются как могут с превосходящими силами войск и полиции.

Видимо, положение назарбаевского режима уже настолько серьезно, что ему недостаточно стало своих карателей -- по сообщениям СМИ он решил <<позаимствовать>> ОМОН у такого же диктатора -- вашего президента Лукашенко.

У рабочего класса всего мира -- одна судьба и одни интересы. Дело трудящихся Казахстана -- не только их, но и ваше дело! Помогите товарищам: распространяйте информацию, выходите на акции протеста, бастуйте, требуйте отозвания из Казахстана белорусских полицейских и прекращения всяких дипломатических отношений с режимом кровавого палача Назарбаева! Ударим по союзу диктаторов рабочей солидарностью!

http://socialistworld.ru/materialy/mir/czentralnaya-aziya/kazaxstan/v-zhanaozene-nachalis-massovyie-besporyadki
 

APPEAL OF COMMITTEE FOR WORKERS’ INTERNATIONAL & THE SOCIALIST MOVEMENT OF KAZAKHSTAN TO THE WORKERS OF BELARUS

12/16/2011. Today more than 3,000 people gathered for a rally in the town square in the center of Zhanaozen (Kazakhstan). Police attacked the protesters, protesters burned the police "UAZ", in response in the city entered the army. Killed over 20 people.

DAMTP warning: the article contains sophisticated features of fascist reasoning. BB curator positions himself in the place were aesthetics (glorification-humiliation), politics, (inter)nationalism(s) and corporationalism meets. BB goes further to declare artists beeing a true nation of aryans. Unjustly it tends to happen in Berlin once again. This is evident also in the upcoming 2012 Berlin Biennale’s mixture of art and politics that is incapable of dealing with the racism of the current system there and its Nazi legacy (in fact only tries to preserve this cultural heritage) – which is evident in its total silence on issues such as the anti travel laws against refugees and indeed the extra judicial killings of Africans such as Oury Jalloh in Germany itself – all of which the Berlin Biennale is silent about. DAMTP have therefore decided to boycott the Berlin Biennale and is asking for solidarity.

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Both the 7th Berlin Biennial and London Olympics 2012 start the very next year.  POLARIS, partner organization of both initiatives, attempts to peep into these two historically significant events and their implications through Cultural, Ideological and Real Estate perspectives. Foregoing is a conversation between POLARIS Ltd and curator of the Berlin Biennale 7 Artur Żmijewski. It touches expectations in the political career of a curator and his opinions on art, gaining power, German history etc.

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POLARIS: You’re the kind of artist who monitors other artists and the art scene in general. You publish interviews with culture producers, you’re the artistic director of the periodical Krytyka Polityczna, and you have been appointed the curator of the 7th Berlin Biennale. What are your guiding principles?

Artur Żmijewski: I’ve always been more interested in the social or political dimension of art and the impact of artistic work. I’ve asked myself whether the language of art is capable of getting people religiously or politically aroused. Artists are just as capable of setting in motion the same chain of events as politicians. How do you exert influence on people’s actions?

POLARIS: What does “career” mean to you?

AŻ: Career means improving yourself professionally. You move forward, acquire knowledge and skills. Some artists possess skills that are truly astounding. There’s the greatness of art and there’s poverty in society.

26th February 2012

Qabar of Rahmat Ali Chaudhry at Cambridge Cemetery.

The end of capitalism is presaged by the collapse of all the previous forms of domination and so will depend on the liberation of the land as well as capital. Therefore we must begin our proletarianism with taking and regaining control of land as well as capital. Even so, the reclamation of the land all over the world, by Indigenous and Traditional groups, by Peasants, Farmers, Travelers, Gypsies as well as Working Class groups can only become revolutionary in this age if they are accompanied with the reclamation and control of capital – machinery and tools INCLUDING PSYCHIC, INTELECTUAL OR HUMAN CAPITAL – by Labour. That’s why the only way that the struggles for the land, at Dale Farm in the UK or by the AMP in Pakistan or indeed the Occupy protests, can only be won when the police, army and private security workers along with the resources and tools they use – including the psychic cops of the services industries, come under the command of workers groups linked internationaly.

This is why the recent bombings at Shiah and Sufi shrines in Afghanistan follow similar targets in Pakistan last year require a response and condemnation worldwide. As part of the diaspora of the Former British Empire, we feel that we must respond. It is irelevent whether these attacks have been orchestrated by the Taliban or other groups or indeed by NATO linked security or secret service groups of the USA or UK. Neither can any of these organisations be revolutionary or proletarian. The same goes for all left wing groups – who constitute the left wing of capital – who in the UK are calling for NATO troops to be withdrawn from Afghanistan or the right wing who support colonial and imperialist war – we recognise the need for the fascists both Islamic and Christian or indeed pagan and other fascists to be fought by any means necessary.

On December 12^th, 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 12^th event - based on burning or eating.

Ich bin damit einverstanden! Marina Naprushkina ist in der Berlin Biennale, die sich weigerten, unsere Reaktion auf sie anzuerkennen beteiligt! Sie sprechen von Kunst und Politik, aber wir wollen diese Kategorien zu zerstören! Die Arbeiterklasse schon immer von Kunst und Politik ausgeschlossen worden! Wir sollten noch weiter gehen und sie angreifen! Mit Blick auf die Berlin Biennale Blog kann ich sehen, dass sie so bei der Erhaltung des kulturellen Erbes des Nationalsozialismus interessiert - schließlich die liberale Demokratie ist wirklich die erweiterte Form des Faschismus!

Помните, мы привозили вам комикс такой в виде газеты, про выборы в Беларуси. "Убедительная победа" называется. Так вот этот комикс – дело рук Марины Напрушкиной. Я тогда не знал, что он ей принадлежит, и, признаться, не знал ничего толком о самой Напрушкиной, кроме имени. И вот узнал. Теперь, зная о том, что Напрушкина живет в Берлине уже давно и состряпала этот комикс там. Что она всю свою культурную и художественную деятельность (она связана с критикой политического режима в Беларуси) ведет также из Берлина. Зная о том, что ее выставки проходят во множестве галерей буржуазного толка, я сожалею, что привез этот комикс на 4-е алитусское биеналле. Сам по себе комикс хорош, но исходя из контекста его производства и трансляции - выходит совершенно лицемерная ситуация. Если этот комикс еще не уничтожен, то мне бы хотелось, чтобы он прекратил свое существование в вашем пространстве.

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In the evening of December 2, 2011, the art-group “Lipovy Tsvet” conducted a campaign to rename the station "Octyabrskaya" in the Minsk subway to "Konovalov’s and Kovalev’s".

亲爱的红屁股！

谢谢你的报告！

作为心理工作者，我们都生产和非生产 - 以及生殖工人 - 我们的报纸是一种艺术商品，而且也是一个政治商品。政治是一个行业和各国政府以及宗教组织都只是他妈的企业！像无政府主义者的反政治派别，也只是在自己的肮脏的产业自愿的劳动！策展人艺术家建筑师建设者 - 或手术的共济工会！当然，工会将条件较好的工人 - 更好地使他们的生产！但我们确实需要再进一步 - 采取控制的手段 - 我们只能在其他行业与其他工人！所以，是的，我完全同意，我们必须超越专长（和国家工业化），所以我们必须不断开拓新的斗争的尺寸！我们很快就会死亡 - 我们不是一个问题，如果我们在我们的努力创造了艺术或政治 - 如果我们能活，我们来的人，那么我们仍然扰乱了商品的生产和创建工作仍然是有用的一流的反抗 - 人类社会！

The presentation of DAMTP papers and proletarian positions of psychic workers took place in Prager Kabarett, Prague on November 15th, 2011.

Very symptomatic was the conjuncture of DAMTP presentation with the presentation of Czech-American artist Woody Vasulka, who confessed there being uncomfortable when named as artist and prefered identifying as a film worker – that was nice to hear from established avant-gardist, but hardly trustable in the context of the occasion – his talk was arranged as a special meeting with public due to his some honourship received at FAMU (Film Academy of Prague).

Next turn for the evening was pending on me. Even before my talk I did a mistake inviting people who came for the first meeting also to stay for DAMTP presentation and simply naming being bourgeois those who are not willing to talk on reproletarianization of the art sphere. My psychic apologies to all people then being here – I think the fact that there were some people directly involved into official events by some academic rituals couldn’t be an excuse to abuse all. In the result not many people left for the next talk. Those details gave impact on my nervousness in the beginning of the DAMTP presentation. But there were incredibly well intentioned people around - they were willing to discuss on the critical topics analyzing contemporary situation in the psychic working conditions. The collective attempts balanced the situation and eventually turned up into an intense discussion.

I found myself quite uncomfortable to start talking on behalf of the DAMTP. When I write “we” I mean usually what I think when trying to look at myself from aside – i.e. when I talk on some imagined community I would like to be part of. The same way is how I treat the organization of the art strike biennials. But the problem is that I do not want to talk on behalf of some very concrete people involved into those concrete events. I started from “I” in that talk because in advance I was presented personally with my name and people came to listen to me as concrete person.

The event was planned as DAMTP propaganda exhibition at DADAPOST, Berlin on October 15th - November 13th, 2011. It was directly addressed towards the artists to doubt their duty being artist and directing them towards becoming self aware psychic proletarians. The show consisted of two separated parts – one was traditionally formed by an artist/curator, who selected Berlin based artists. Another one was arranged by three [exhibition]workers – the space was filled up with DAMTP prints, post-produced or re-adapted propaganda papers – and some trans-inverted posters. Unfortunatelly it still looked very aesthetic. While the first part of the show held on the individuality and supposedly equal attention to each item – the DAMTP space provided a clear contrast of being in collectively in-divide-duality of spinning situlogy and therefore challenging to stop "making sense".

At POLARIS, we combine the theoretico-economic achievements such as a theory of Creative Class (Richard Florida’s 3Ts: Talent, Technology, Tolerance) with a long history of social pacifying using Culture as practiced by the Governments and Businesses worldwide: examples range from CIA funded export of abstract expressionism in the times of unrest in the United States of America to labeling acts of social unrest Art. Which ones? Get in touch or read more for cost-free bites of invaluable information… Join POLARIS INTERNATIONAL Ltd on twitter (http://twitter.com/#!/polaris_int): our team forms a trans-national Real Estate Agency dedicated to merging the gaps between Art, Business & The Government by 2012.

Today, the form art takes is not so important – what remains important is to preserve Art as a category in itself. This might sound tricky or too philosophical for many of our investors and partners, but, by 2012, we hope to introduce you to a road of clarity which leads into this complex but extravagantly rewarding Praxis of ours (and yours).

Only with the existence of Art along with a set of cultural values attached to it can we improve our cities faster than ever. Have you seen how quickly a city quarter famous for its cultural vibrancy becomes all new and friendly? You should not look far: SoHo in New York, Shoreditch in London, Berlin’s Mitte is just a pair of examples. Here we must emphasize our commitment to work internationally, with a main focus on Berlin.