FLUXLIST: Austria

2000-02-05 Thread Marc Schulz und Christina Ohlhus
i think that the total boykott is a very stupid thing. but it seems like that it becomes more and more a tactic of the western politics to boykott everything and everyone who or which is not on their way to their capitalistic global structure. the fact that a total boykott doesn't help in any sens

Re: FLUXLIST: Austria

2000-02-05 Thread Ernest Lergon
Marc Schulz und Christina Ohlhus wrote: > > my idea is not to make such strong reactions like a total boykott of austria. > first a deeper understanding of the facts, then a reaction. please be more > open-minded to support those people who didn't vote haider & schuessel! > It's time to stop un

Re: FLUXLIST: Austria

2000-02-05 Thread Terrence J Kosick
Terrence writes; Who are Haidlers real masters? Sorry but I am not totally up on what the new policies are in the newly formed Austrian government. And why they are so appealing that they have allowed them into government? Are they very offensive to the EU? Can someone please direct me and othe

Re: FLUXLIST: Austria

2000-02-06 Thread Marc Schulz und Christina Ohlhus
Regarding Michel Foucault prisons doesn't make any sense... regarding Niklas Luhmann entering an autopietic system destroy it because you're destroying their inner logic they need for life... I'm against any kind of violence - physical or mental. And I'm with Joseph Beuys, Robert Filliou and all

Re: FLUXLIST: Austria

2000-02-06 Thread valery grancher
I have to say that you are totally all right on this point, but anyway escaping from a country nazi politic systemis not a violence: Specially when some institutins are getting fund from their government, they are part of the national system. Artist who have some art pieces ain these institutions

Re: FLUXLIST: Austria

2000-02-06 Thread Heiko Recktenwald
> We call it in France "recuperation", I don't know the word in english. Its one of the cheap myths of France. Mitterant stopped this simplicistic view, black and white thinking. What the EU is doing in the Austria case is Imperialism. And all I hear from France is "we have to stop it". >From

Re: FLUXLIST: Austria

2000-02-06 Thread Ernest Lergon
valery grancher wrote: > > I'm keepin in mind the propaganda system from front national managed by Le Pen in > France: his staff in various regions and area in France are not fighting againts > contemporary art, but they defending it just to legitmate their political propaganda >by > saying they

Re: FLUXLIST: Austria

2000-02-06 Thread Ernest Lergon
Marc Schulz und Christina Ohlhus wrote: > > Regarding Michel Foucault prisons doesn't make any sense... regarding Niklas Luhmann > entering an autopietic system destroy it because you're destroying their inner logic > they need for life... I'm against any kind of violence - physical or mental. An

Re: FLUXLIST: Austria

2000-02-06 Thread Ernest Lergon
Heiko Recktenwald wrote (in different messages, cited in parts): > > Btw, we had no referendum on EU or whatever, the "euro-money" etc, and > its very doubtfull, that the majority of the german voters had voted for it. > In Austria, they had 2 third of the people backing EU. > So you support the

Re: FLUXLIST: Austria

2000-02-06 Thread Heiko Recktenwald
> It's time to stop understanding! In Germany every rigth-wing skinhead, > who slaughtered an immigrant, receives sympathic judgement - because of > his drunken mother, his work-less father and so on. And then he is sent > to a holiday camp for three weeks instead of being put into prison for > 1

Re: FLUXLIST: Austria

2000-02-06 Thread valery grancher
Der Heiko > Valery, have you ever seen an austrian paper, ever been in Vienna ? > I've been in Vienna I exhibited in Linz ... nice country with a great young generation ! wand what about the old people I met who don't have any sorrow regarding Kurt Waldheim and 1939-45 period. strange it's look

Re: FLUXLIST: Austria

2000-02-06 Thread Marc Schulz und Christina Ohlhus
i think that our discussion become more and more polemic. the mixing of the austrian "problem" (fact is that more than 25 % of the austrians are pro haider - so it was a democratic act!) with the accepting social work is strange... but to clear this fact for the fluxlisters: i think it's poor to

Re: FLUXLIST: Austria

2000-02-07 Thread Heiko Recktenwald
Valery, On Sun, 6 Feb 2000, valery grancher wrote: > Der Heiko > > > > Valery, have you ever seen an austrian paper, ever been in Vienna ? > > > > I've been in Vienna I exhibited in Linz ... nice country with a great young > generation ! wand what about the old people I met who don't have any

Re: FLUXLIST: Austria

2000-02-07 Thread Heiko Recktenwald
> never find any punk, hippie, rasta, anarchist etc. because they all were > expelled by the "tolerated" and "accepted" right-wing youth groups - in > most cases by violence. Moreover, these groups use the centre rooms to plan > the next assault on an immegrant, the next neo-nazi demonstration, th

Re: FLUXLIST: Austria

2000-02-07 Thread Heiko Recktenwald
> > its very doubtfull, that the majority of the german voters had voted for it. We havent been asked.. > > In Austria, they had 2 third of the people backing EU. > > > So you support the austrian model to be transfered to other european > countries, because it's exemplary for a united continent

Re: FLUXLIST: Austria

2000-02-07 Thread Ann Klefstad
> Austria isnt > Kosovo. It will never be. > It was once. AK

FLUXLIST: Austria How-To-Respond!

2000-02-07 Thread Craig Saper
How to respond to the current situation in Austria! For Fluxlist Artists Collaborationists: Socio-Poetics since the 1950s The specter of artists and intellectuals as Nazi or Stalinist collaborationists has made collaborations-as-experimental art both more difficult and more interesting, e

FLUXLIST: Austria/Visit the Krematorium

2000-02-09 Thread Miklos Legrady
Visit the Krematorium. _ This is the completion of the project I just submitted to Ars Electronica; a raw piece, but somewhat informative. Also emailed invite to 4 Austrian newspapers and a Vienna TV station. http://www.c3.hu/~itmiklos/site/aa2.html + +just dust and ashes +

Re: FLUXLIST: Austria How-To-Respond!

2000-02-08 Thread George Free
Communication can be a dangerous thing, if it breaks down barriers and allows people who have previously been denied a voice to speak and articulate a vision. That seems to have been the revolutionary aspect of the internet so far (e.g., amongst the "civil society" protesters in Seattle). It has