thanks simon - I've never heard of samizdat before - but that's fascinating. Will read more about this. I think what I'm doing is different though - it's not censored material - but I do feel an urge to spread information that is largely suppressed in the mainstream media - so am sure I'll face strong disapproval. I suppose I think of the booklets as "underground" though there's nothing illegal about them.
all the best dave On 4 October 2011 08:46, Simon Mclennan <[email protected]> wrote: > Well samizdat could describe it. Often the best interventions may not be > considered art at all. Poetic terrorism, stating an obvious truth to > challenge the big lie. It's importance is it's content. Keep it up. > Simon > > Sent from my shyphone > > On Oct 3, 2011, at 6:05 PM, dave miller <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Last saturday I stood outside the Camden Centre, where the ‘Europe >> against Austerity’ conference took place. I handed out my hand made >> booklets, my “Instructional Guides for Difficult Times”, to anyone who >> would take one. I didn’t dare try to charge, I just wanted people to >> take them. I thrust them into their hands. It felt good when people >> took my “art”. >> >> But I’m not really sure where the art is in what I’m doing. Have I >> actually stopped doing art? Am I now a political activist? Or >> worryingly, because I don’t belong to any political group or >> organisation, have I become like that man who used to walk up and down >> Oxford Street each day, predicting the end of the world? Or the man >> who used to hand out leaflets warning us all not to eat eggs? >> >> As the financial crisis has got increasingly urgent and desperate, I >> have been sucked into it. I feel a moral duty to understand the >> subject, and to do something about it, to fight back. The best way, >> the natural way, for me is through my creative skills – to inform and >> explain and empower. In this way I’ve become obsessed with making >> critical commentary on the financial and political crisis. >> >> For me, this is both political action and artistic expression, but I’m >> not sure if it’s art I’m making. >> >> What do you think? >> _______________________________________________ >> NetBehaviour mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour >> > _______________________________________________ > NetBehaviour mailing list > [email protected] > http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour _______________________________________________ NetBehaviour mailing list [email protected] http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour
