By Greg Palast
http://GregPalast.com
Friday 30 June 2006
Bush team helps ruling party "Floridize" Mexican
presidential election.
George Bush's operatives have plans to jigger with
the upcoming elections. I'm not talking about the
November '06 vote in the USA (though they have plans
for that, too). I'm talking about the election this
Sunday in Mexico for their Presidency.
It begins with an FBI document marked,
Probably the best museum show I have ever seen and heard is the DaDa exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art. I liked it so much I was inspired and did two Art Dirt Redux http://spaghetti.nujus.net/artDirt Mash-ups. The first one uses the curators audio tour guide and the audio I recorded while Rob Murphy & I walked around the exhibit. I used a cut-up technique and shuffled the “found sound” of the curators comments.
Charles Atlas, You Are My Sister
Electric Arts Intermix showed free music videos under the stars last night on Pier 63 on the Hudson River in New York.
William Wegman's 1988 video for New Order, Blue Monday reminded me once again that a little Wegman goes a long way and the same can be said for the Tony Ousler/Sonic Youth collaboration, Tunic from 1990. Is it just me or have SY been playing the same song with varying degrees of volumn and speed for the past twenty years?
The problem with capitalism is that it devalues everything except that which can be turned into a commodity. What happens if you don't want to be bought and sold or you don't want to buy and sell? Then what? The world is not only barter and trade. It's a mistake to see it that way.
Joseph Nechvatal invites you to regard his new series of works entitled mOnstrOus hOax here:
http://www.eyewithwings.net/nechvatal/hoax/monstrous_hoax.htm
At left, a satellite image showing Florida at present; at right, a projection of what Florida will look like if the sea level increases by 18-20 feet
The Threat to the Planet
By Jim Hansen
http://www.nybooks.com/articles/19131
Animals are on the run. Plants are migrating too. The Earth's creatures, save for one species, do not have thermostats in their living rooms that they can adjust for an optimum environment. Animals and plants are adapted to specific climate zones, and they can survive only when they are in those zones. Indeed, scientists often define climate zones by the vegetation and animal life that they support. Gardeners and bird watchers are well aware of this, and their handbooks contain maps of the zones in which a tree or flower can survive and the range of each bird species. Those maps will have to be redrawn. Most people, mainly aware of larger day-to-day fluctuations in the weather, barely notice that climate, the average weather, is changing.
More on the political art world flutter of the moment...
In discussing Cheryl Meeker’s take on Chris Gilbert’s resignation from the University of California at Berkeley art museum, I neglected to include the URL for her excellent piece: http://www.nyfa.org/level3.asp?id=484&fid=6&sid=17
What exactly is the show that occasioned this resignation? It is the second of Chris Gilbert’s exhibitions which I have considered from afar, never having seen them and making do with only the sketchiest of descriptions. The “Now-Time” show includes videos of Venezuelan factories. That is, it is a series of documentary works representing the revolutionary changes within the processes of production in the Venezuela of Hugo Chavez. Given that a former U.S. presidential candidate on the right has suggested that the CIA should kill Chavez (which most have viewed as an only somewhat hysterical expression of current policy), it is fair to say that this exhibition brings no cheer to the U.S. State Department.
Thursday June 22 2006
Objectives and Objectivity
Hi Friends,
I’m happy to be back in NYC. And to be posting on the Thing. I was teaching in Georgia this year, outside Atlanta. It has taken me a while to get back into the spin here…
On my way back home in mid-May I visited first Earthaven, an eco-village outside Asheville, N.C., for an overnight stay. The place is off the grid except for telephone. I checked my email using homemade hydroelectric power from a stream. Crapped in a composting toilet. In Baltimore I ate crabcakes at the food court. It’s true, New York doesn’t know what a crab cake is. Then I stopped in to chat with Cira Pasqual Marquina, curator at the Contemporary Museum. She had just opened her new show, “Headquarters: Investigating the Creation of the Ghetto and the Prison Industrial Complex” (through August 27, 2006). We went to Red Emma’s infoshop and had lunch. Cira’s partner Chris Gilbert had left for Berkeley to serve as Matrix curator at the University of California museum there…
THE INFLUENCERS
Festival of media action and radical entertainment
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*July 6 7 8 - 2006*
Center of Contemporary Culture Barcelona
http://d-i-n-a.net/influencers
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with VUK COSIC, PAUL D. MILLER / DJ SPOOKY, MOLLEINDUSTRIA, IRWIN / NEUE SLOWENISCHE KUNST, VINCENZO SPARAGNA, OSCAR BRAHIM, CHICKS ON SPEED
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program: http://d-i-n-a.net/influencers/06/en
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