Dodomenta, Diary from Kassel
ks to test alternative approaches to economy, collectivity, and sustainability through the practice of lumbung. Even if this approach is not visible at first glance, it may be noticeable at the venues and in the programs." <https://booklet.documenta-fifteen.de/en/ueber/lumbung> https://booklet.documenta-fifteen.de/en/ueber/lumbung Harmony and balance are valued higher than conflict and contrast. In a sense, the lumbung collective exposes itself as such: in harmony, open, and embracing. Not so much searching for confrontation but for meeting and exchange. Baking mud cakes according to a Haitian traditional recipe from Kassel earth. Bringing rituals together in niches of the St. Kunigundis ( <https://www.lumbunggallery.theartists.net/artist/atis-rezistans> Atis Rezistans). Feeling your creative compost in the <https://documenta-fifteen.de/en/venues/compost-heap-karlsaue/> Holobiente in Karlsaue Park. So many ways to look around, and to look at yourself. I did have some intercourse with the works, I was absorbed and overwhelmed and warmed and all that. But it did not move, not shake, not anymore. No wonder, when the protagonists had left the space already (I only read the text of their statement the day after). Just as we can blame Documenta for being colonial, we could call lumbung naive. How could they expect the West/Europe to accept without a whisper all collective powers invading the cultural heart of Europe? Lumbung did not come to topple the institute or invade the Volksraum, but confronted with a wall of shame, the lumbung saw itself forced to manifest its resilience and orbital interdependency, by leaving Documenta behind like a fossil. Naive? Or just a new beginning? We are outraged, we are exhausted, but our struggle will continue. "Lumbung Gallery is planned to extend beyond the duration of documenta fifteen as a registered entity of its own. Collectors, public institutions and communities are invited to form their own Lumbungs and participate in the sharing of artworks."<https://www.lumbunggallery.theartists.net/> https://www.lumbunggallery.theartists.net/ Cheers! See you soon! Jo van der Spek (1956) Kassel-Amsterdam Sept. 2022 http://letterver <http://letterverz.nl/> z.nl public work 23 september make it happen: NL53TRIO0338573607 t.n.v. Stichting Migrant 2 Migrant o.v.v. LetterVerZ Jo van der Spek M2M Communicatieadviseur Stichting Migrant 2 Migrant Soendastraat 6 h 1094BG Amsterdam NL Tel. +31(0)651069318 http://schipholbrand.net <http://schipholbrand.net/> # distributed via : no commercial use without permission #is a moderated mailing list for net criticism, # collaborative text filtering and cultural politics of the nets # more info: http://mx.kein.org/mailman/listinfo/nettime-l # archive: http://www.nettime.org contact: nett...@kein.org # @nettime_bot tweets mail w/ sender unless #ANON is in Subject:
Dodomenta, A Kassel diary
alternative approaches to economy, collectivity, and sustainability through the practice of lumbung. Even if this approach is not visible at first glance, it may be noticeable at the venues and in the programs." <https://booklet.documenta-fifteen.de/en/ueber/lumbung> https://booklet.documenta-fifteen.de/en/ueber/lumbung Harmony and balance are valued higher than conflict and contrast. In a sense, the lumbung collective exposes itself as such: in harmony, open and embracing. Not so much searching for confrontation but for meeting and exchange. Baking mud cakes according to a Haitian tradition recipe from Kassel earth. Bringing rituals together in niches of the St. Kunigundis ( <https://www.lumbunggallery.theartists.net/artist/atis-rezistans> Atis Rezistans). Feeling your creative compost in the <https://documenta-fifteen.de/en/venues/compost-heap-karlsaue/> Holobiente in Karlsaue Park. So many ways to look around, and to look at yourself. I did have some intercourse with the works, I was absorbed and overwhelmed and warmed and all that. But it did not move, not shake, not any more. No wonder, when the protagonists had left the space already (I only read the tekst of their statement the day after). Just as we can blame Documenta for being colonial, we could call lumbung naive. How could they expect the West/Europe to accept without a whisper all collective powers invading the cultural heart of Europe? Lumbung did not come to topple the institute or invade the Volksraum, but confronted with a wall of shame, the lumbung saw itself orced to manifest its resilience and orbital interdependency, by leaving Documenta behind like a fossil. Naive? Or just a new beginning? We are outraged, we are exhausted, but our struggle will continue. "Lumbung Gallery is planned to extend beyond the duration of documenta fifteen as a registered entity of its own. Collectors, public institutions and communities are invited to form their own Lumbungs and participate in the sharing of artworks." https://www.lumbunggallery.theartists.net/ Cheers! See you soon! Jo van der Spek (1956) Kassel-Amsterdam sept. 2022 http://letterver <http://letterverz.nl/> z.nl public work 23rd of september make it happen: NL53TRIO0338573607 t.n.v. Stichting Migrant 2 Migrant o.v.v. LetterVerZ Jo van der Spek M2M Communicatieadviseur Stichting Migrant 2 Migrant http://schipholbrand.net <http://schipholbrand.net/> # distributed via : no commercial use without permission #is a moderated mailing list for net criticism, # collaborative text filtering and cultural politics of the nets # more info: http://mx.kein.org/mailman/listinfo/nettime-l # archive: http://www.nettime.org contact: nett...@kein.org # @nettime_bot tweets mail w/ sender unless #ANON is in Subject:
Re: Peter Lamborn WIlson 1945 -2022
Dear Konrad, Geert and Felix. Free Radio Patapoe wants to dedicate a full hour dedicated to the legacy of Peter Lamborn Wilson, a.k.a. Hakim Bey. We plan this for tomorrow evening between 8 and 10 p.m. Amsterdam Time. Radio Patapoe is an Amsterdam underground station. Formerly as a pirate on FM, now only on the internet. Our program, every Thursday night from 8 to 10 discusses political and cultural current events in Amsterdam and the rest of the world in historical perspective. Bart Schut presents, in alternating cohesion with Kimbel Bouwman and Jo van der Spek. We use a chat tool called jitsi. https://jitsipatapoe.ddns.net/psjm I hope you can join us tomorrow evening! Let's Bolo Bolo! Jo van der Spek M2M Communicatieadviseur St.Migrant 2 Migrant Soendastraat 6 h 1094BG Amsterdam NL Tel. +31(0)651069318 http://schipholbrand.net http://letterverz.nl -Oorspronkelijk bericht- Van: nettime-l-boun...@mail.kein.org Namens Konrad Becker Verzonden: dinsdag 24 mei 2022 17:16 Aan: nettim...@kein.org Onderwerp: Peter Lamborn WIlson 1945 -2022 Peter Lamborn Wilson died in his apartment in Saugerties in upstate New York last night, reportedly from a heart attack. A "Cyberguru" in the nineties he had no email address and wrote his pieces by hand, or an old typewriter. With 70+ books and titles like "Pirate Utopia" he inspired several generations. However, his visceral abhorrence of digital media was softened by his clever use of resources in a digital savvy environment. As the author of "Temporary Autonomous Zone" he was guest at the inauguration of Public Netbase and a regular visitor here in Vienna. Sadly, despite his personal integrity, his fame and colorful queer identity also triggered offending smears and innuendo hard to oppose. In his last months he spoke self-depreciatingly of himself as an old hippy, maybe he was, I just wish there were more of this kind. While many drift into senility in their early forties, he was bright as a button until his last day and had more clever things to say about the electronic media realm than most of the new media experts I ever met. Following up on his contribution to the book "Digital Unconscious - Nervous Systems and Uncanny Predictions!" and with the support of Autonomedia, Felix Stalder and me ventured into a series of deeper inquiries into the fabric of media un/consciousness. There is a general narrowing and flattening of the imagination due to the global spread of consumerism and the increasing abstraction and quantification through which the social world is constructed. PLW work can be understood as an exploration of alternative ways of being in the world that could offer escape routes. We, by way of Jim Flemming and Fred Barney Taylor, conducted the last interview just a few days ago. In his last interviews he liked to talk of the end of the world which he defined as an ongoing process. His lucid analysis what went wrong in the last few thousand years was not defeatist but a call to arms. As he liked to say: Even if you are going to die tomorrow, plant a tree today. The rebellious spirit of PLW and his alter Ego Hakim Bey will be immensely missed. # distributed via : no commercial use without permission # is a moderated mailing list for net criticism, # collaborative text filtering and cultural politics of the nets # more info: http://mx.kein.org/mailman/listinfo/nettime-l # archive: http://www.nettime.org contact: nett...@kein.org # @nettime_bot tweets mail w/ sender unless #ANON is in Subject: # distributed via : no commercial use without permission #is a moderated mailing list for net criticism, # collaborative text filtering and cultural politics of the nets # more info: http://mx.kein.org/mailman/listinfo/nettime-l # archive: http://www.nettime.org contact: nett...@kein.org # @nettime_bot tweets mail w/ sender unless #ANON is in Subject:
Re: Anonymous movement in decline?
contributing to this line of thinking: The most striking demand of the Amsterdam-based movement of refugees-on-the-street, operating since september 2012 under the name We Are Here, is both radical and banal: Normal Life. Makes one think, no? # distributed via : no commercial use without permission #is a moderated mailing list for net criticism, # collaborative text filtering and cultural politics of the nets # more info: http://mx.kein.org/mailman/listinfo/nettime-l # archive: http://www.nettime.org contact: nett...@kein.org
We are free, in the camp
"We are free because we are together" The third protest camp of refugees-on-the-street took place last month in Ter Apel NL, in front of the big complex for processing asylum seekers and undocuemnetd migrants. The camp is a form of autonomous action by a collective of victimized and criminalised men and women. It is not a new tactics in the global social movement of migrants, but for The Netherlands it constitutes an important step ahead. For Dutch activists it is very encouraging to be able to join directly with the people whose rights they have been trying to defend for years. And we could join them in the way of the activist: initiating a concrete and radical action to make a different way of looking at migration possible. From the perspective of the undocumented migrants, there was hardly any alternative left. The choice for many is between detention and leading a miserable life on the street, after exhausting all your reserves and the generosity of your friends. Many have no way of leaving the country. They cannot go to Germany or Belgium and if they do so legally they will be returned (based on the Dublin Claim rule). Moving on to Canada or USA is a wish but expensive and complicated if you don't have some connections already. So if you have really good reasons for not going back to your country of origin, to your mother, to your old friends and to the naturalness of social life, than you have to do something drastic to stop going crazy and losing your dignity. A powerful illustration came when the riot police came to arrest the mostly Somali refugees in the camp, after the Iraqi's had consented to accept shelter and give up the camp. The Somali brothers lined up in front of the TV-camera's, they looked straight into the lens, standing tall. They raised their writsts and held them up in the air, crossing their wrists as if hand-cuffed. With all the agony and anger their message was for me: "You can come and get me, motherfuckers. You can put me in prison, but my mind is free." Their yelling "Human Rights" and "We don't go" and their passive resistance to the intimidation by police violence was impressive for those who were with the Somali's, Irani's and others who were all arrested in the end (total 117). We were 3 or 4 activists, the old doctor Co and myself. This exclusive image of power and pride was indeed very uplifting. These are the guys you can practice real solidarity with. No dependency but equal exhange here. No charity but true collaboration. That is why I look forward to the next camp! Jo M2M Sounds of the Camp including the eviction on the 23rd of May can be heard at M2M Radio http://m2m.streamtime.org for Arab readers: http://www.iraqi-refugees.org # distributed via : no commercial use without permission #is a moderated mailing list for net criticism, # collaborative text filtering and cultural politics of the nets # more info: http://mx.kein.org/mailman/listinfo/nettime-l # archive: http://www.nettime.org contact: nett...@kein.org
Help Iraqi resistance in Ter Apel (NL)
On the 8th of May 2012 refugees-on-the-street again started a camp outside the Collective Center at Ter Apel in the north of the Netherlands These migrants are supposed to return voluntarily to their country, because the Dutch government believes that they are not in danger there. However the government in Iraq refuses to take them back if they are forced. So they have nowhere to go to, no right to be here and no way to go there. But they act together for a chance to live and live better than before. Finally it is not the USA that invades The Hague, in order to prevent the application of international justice to American citizens- soldiers. No, it's Iraqi citizen-migrants occupying common ground in the north of the Netherlands in an effort to force a radical change in the application of human justice to migrants that are so far denied acces and basic rights. This act of occupation by a fast growing number of mainly Iraqi refugees-on-the-street is well timed and also well suited to create an uplifting experience amidst the general lethargy that still covers Holland like a blanket of mental smog. Like so many times before in history an external agent, through an unexpected and autonomous action, is now intervening in the Dutch political landscape, at a moment that everyday political life is in a highly unstable state: no government, a parliament trying to gain legitimacy and a queen dying to hand over sovereignty to her son. The direct cause for this current limbo lies in the response to the economic recession and the European conditions forcing even a rich country like Holland to take extreme measures of austerity. However, the cornerstone of change, the hinge on which the minds and hearts of a significant section of youth and mindful adults may move, is the approach towards migrants and world affairs in general. Poverty is moving in and migrants are dying on the shores of Europe. Soon we will be drifting together if we don't take drastic action. We now see the face of globalization reflected in the mirror that Brussels and Ter Apel are holding up for us to see. We see Geert Wilders as just another make-over of Batman, unmasking himself as just another copy cat of Pim Fortuyn, only adding to the pitiful frustration of the merciless masses voting for him, proving once again time for messiah is over. One man will not make the difference. Ask Obama. Finally the Joker hits back. After two exercises last winter led by Somali brothers and sisters camping in the cold outside the deportation complex of Ter Apel, now the weather is fine and time is ripe for the real thing. These poor asylum seekers, strangled by foreign police and immigration service IND, mentally broken by the thousands in administrative detention, suffocated by laws and lawyers, made dependant on charity and church, are finally showing who they really are: human! They can really move! They are not victims but actors! They can be tourists like you and me! So let us not help the occupiers in Ter Apel. Let us not support them, don't give them tents, blankets or telephone credit. Do not bring your redundant laptops, I-pads or even worn-out army boots and leather jackets to their field of honour. No, embrace their exemplary autonomous action, join Ali Aziz and Hadi Abu Sanad like in the 16th century we embraced the House of Orange, invading the Dutch swamps at nearby Heiligerlee. Temperature is rising, parliamentary politics is exhausted, corporate business is selling out to China's communists and Mexican coke dealers. We got to save ourselves. We are here, we the people, we make the difference, we have no borders to cross, we have no cross other than our own indulging in apathy. Let's throw it off and start the summer. Leave your squat and camp out. Send your children abroad after the exams and restore disorder at home. Forget your mortgage, bury your debts and love your neighbour. Let migrants invade this place and help us chase away the ghosts of Rawagade, Srebrenica, the Schiphol Fire and most of all the mist of mental misery hanging over us. Jo van der Spek http://m2m.streamtime.org # distributed via : no commercial use without permission #is a moderated mailing list for net criticism, # collaborative text filtering and cultural politics of the nets # more info: http://mx.kein.org/mailman/listinfo/nettime-l # archive: http://www.nettime.org contact: nett...@kein.org
Welcoming the Iraqi invasion of Holland
On the occasion of the action by refugees-on-the-street who started a camp outside the Collective Center at Ter Apel in the north of the Netherlands on the 8th of May, Jo van der Spek of M2M wrote the following column. These migrants are supposed to return voluntarily to their country, because the Dutch government believes that they are not in danger there. However the governemnt in Iraq refuses to take them back if they are forced. So they have nowhere to go to, no right to be here and no way to go there. But they act together for a chance to live and live better than before. Why not? Welcoming the Iraqi Invasion Act Finally it is not the USA that invades The Hague, in order to prevent the application of international justice to American citizens- soldiers. No, it's Iraqi citizen-migrants occupying common ground in the north of the Netherlands in an effort to force a radical change in the application of human justice to migrants that are so far denied acces and basic rights. This act of occupation by a fast growing number of mainly Iraqi refugees-on-the-street is well timed and also well suited to create an uplifting experience amidst the general lethargy that still covers Holland like a blanket of mental smog. Like so many times before in history an external agent, through an unexpected and autonomous action, is now intervening in the Dutch political landscape, at a moment that everyday political life is in a highly unstable state: no government, a parliament trying to gain legitimacy and a queen dying to hand-over sovereignty to her son. The direct cause for this current limbo lies in the response to the economic recession and the European conditions forcing even a rich country like Holland to take extreme measures of austerity. However, the cornerstone of change, the hinge on which the minds and hearts of a significant section of youth and mindful adults may move, is the approach towards migrants and world affairs in general. Poverty is moving in and migrants are dying on the shores of Europe. Soon we will be drifting together if we don't take drastic action. Finally we see the face of globalization reflected in the mirror that Brussels and Ter Apel are holding up for us to see. We see Geert Wilders as just another make-over of Batman, unmasking himself as just another copy cat of Pim Fortuyn, only adding to the pitiful frustration of the merciless masses voting for him, proving once again time for messiah is over. One man will not make the difference. Ask Obama. Finally the Joker hits back. After two exercises last winter led by Somali brothers and sisters camping in the cold outside the deportation complex of Ter Apel, now the weather is fine and time is ripe for the real thing. These poor asylum seekers, strangled by foreign police and immigration service IND, mentally broken by the thousands in administrative detention, suffocated by laws and lawyers, made dependant on charity and church, are finally showing who they really are: human! They can really move! They are not victims but actors! They can be tourists like you and me! So let us not help the occupiers in Ter Apel. Let us not support them, don't give them tents, blankets or telephone credit. Do not bring your redundant laptops, I-pads or even worn-out army boots and leather jackets to their field of honour. No, embrace their exemplary autonomous action, join Ali Aziz and Hadi Abu Sanad like in the 16th century we embraced the House of Orange, invading the Dutch swamps at nearby Heiligerlee.Temperature is rising, parliamentary politics is exhausted, corporate business is selling out to China's communists and Mexican coke dealers. We got to save ourselves. We are here, we the people, we make the difference, we have no borders to cross, we have no cross other than our own indulging in apathy. Let's throw it off and start the summer. Leave your squat and camp out. Send your children abroad after the exams and restore disorder at home. Forget your mortgage, bury your debts and love your neighbour. Let migrants invade this place and help us chase away the ghosts of Rawagade, Srebrenica, the Schiphol Fire and most of all the mist of mental misery hanging over us. Jo van der Spek m2m.streamtime.org # distributed via : no commercial use without permission #is a moderated mailing list for net criticism, # collaborative text filtering and cultural politics of the nets # more info: http://mx.kein.org/mailman/listinfo/nettime-l # archive: http://www.nettime.org contact: nett...@kein.org
