Date: Fri, 24 Feb 2006 00:35:56 +0100 From: Florian Cramer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Inke Arns <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: amanda mcdonald crowley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, spectre@mikrolisten.de Subject: Re: [spectre] please link to this site: http://waldvogel.plaintext.cc/
Am Donnerstag, 23. Februar 2006 um 23:10:19 Uhr (+0100) schrieb Inke Arns:
I am "singling out" Waldvogel because 1) he is the only of the three curators who's possibly known outside of a (or even in the) German speaking context (as Spectre), and 2) because his name is the only of the three that keeps re-appearing on mailing lists like Nettime and Spectre. Furthermore, I am "singling out" Waldvogel because 3) indeed, he is one of the three curators of the upcoming Manifesta in Cyprus (and, through that, has quite an international exposure). And
Just to add my 10 cents: I am singling out Waldvogel (by running the site while being another writer whose anonymized writing makes up a considerable part of the "Just Do it" book) because ripping off other writers seems to run as a theme through his entire career. This blog entry <http://ronsens.de/machtdose/sampletexter.html> says, in my translation: "Culture jamming will eat itself - that, too: With his contribution to the 'Just Do It' exhibition, Waldvogel hasn't acted as a sampling writer for the first time. His essay 'Culture Jamming: The Visual Grammar of Resistance' (published in 2003 in: 'Die Offene Stadt: Anwendungsmodelle' ['The Open City: Application Models', edited by Marius Babias and Florian Waldvogel] is sheer text theft as well. The reader had been available as a PDF file for a long time, but was taken offline with the relaunch of the Zollverein art space. Gregor, July 11, 05" I wouldn't mind that if he were an underground anti-copyright activist, like Sebastian Lütgert, for example. But he wants to have the cake and eat it, too: work in institutions, but screw institutional responsibility; copy other works, but commercially release them with his name tag; pose as a "radical", but only to invest as little intellectual effort as possible; mask his intellectual incapability. The latter (despite all borrowings from what might have been good texts) fully comes across in the essay mentioned in the blog entry and which is still online at <http://www.rebelart.net/i0002.html>. That text is unreflected enough to mix Nazi and authoritarian vocabulary like "Lebensraum" and "Vollstreckungsbefehl" into a piece supposedly about critical left-wing urbanism. And I'm only scratching the very surface of the imbecility of this text. He's also the only of the three curators who ducked a reply to us after our protests. And on top of that, Inke's text that got ripped off into "Just Do It" originally had been a lecture of her's at Zollverein - when Waldvogel was its curator, and listening to the talk. So beware of Mr. Waldvogel attending your lectures. There's a chance that they end up, with his name tag, in his next brilliant catalogue, getting him the next big job in the art world. I just learned that he has become a curator at Witte de With in Rotterdam. It sounds unbelievable, but to see that I'm not exaggerating, have look on the Manifesta 6 site <http://www.e-flux.com/displayshow.php?file=message_1108382427.txt> where we learn that he is, quote, "Author of Who Let the Dogs Out (2001), co-editor of Campus (2002), Die Offene Stadt (2003), Julie Ault/Martin Beck Critical Conditions (2003), Bank 1-3 (2004) and Just do it! (2005)". And did I mention that when "Just Do It" came out, he and Thomas Edlinger went onto a tour through Germany where they made public readings of "their" book? -F -- http://cramer.plaintext.cc:70 gopher://cramer.plaintext.cc -- Dr. Inke Arns Artistic Director Hartware MedienKunstVerein Guentherstrasse 65 * D-44143 Dortmund T ++49 (231) 823 106 F ++49 (231) 882 02 40 [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.hmkv.de http://www.projects.v2.nl/~arns/ http://waldvogel.plaintext.cc/ ______________________________________________ SPECTRE list for media culture in Deep Europe Info, archive and help: http://coredump.buug.de/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/spectre