Date: Thu, 25 Nov 2004 01:23:14 +0100 (CET)
From: Heiko Recktenwald <uzs106-AT-uni-bonn.de>
To: <avant-garde-driftline.org-AT-lists.driftline.org>
Subject: Re: [a-g] Ivan Chtcheglov / Risk Culture


Dear Alastair, la derive, no matter what, it isd there;-)

On Sun, 21 Nov 2004, Alastair Dickson wrote:

> >Reminds to the drunken man some days ago from Poland, who wanted to kill
> >all capitalists, a dramatic gesture, no politics at all, but very typical
> >for those people from the east, makes me understand, what happened after
> >45.

Met he again, nicenst person.
But I dont really like the official polish politics, after 45 and now,
incredible how they argued entering the EU. Maybe there is an inferiority
complex of a small country, but it doesnt make life easier.

>
> Drifting off topic here, but Heiko's mention of a man from Poland
> establishes some kind of connection...
>
> When I reread Chtcheglov's text

I havent seen it, all I knew is Capanella.

>last week with its vision of an
> architecture which modifies conceptions of time and space, I thought of

Thje funky babys mother is with Alsop...

> a Polish artist who stayed with us a few weeks ago while he was
> developing a gallery-sponsored project here.
>
> His work utilises the breeze-blocks and mesh fencing of the building
> site.  However his realisation of this project was obstructed by the
> risk-averse culture of today - the health-and-safety assessments
> dedicated to ensuring that nobody can every risk an injury and make a
> financial claim.  I was explaining this culture to him as a blight

Hmm, it is some tradition of corruption too, they have idiotic rules, and
you must pay to do what you want to do, maybe not in this case, but not
all cases are the same.


> mainly on the English-speaking countries (see the Diana fountain fiasco
> http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk_news/story/0,,1307329,00.html). But he
> tells me that it has begun to intrude into Poland, and his most recent
> project there was also prevented.

Remember your orange.txt, still have it somewhere, there was a lady from
Edinburgh on my brothers marriage in Battersea park, had to think of you.


Well, true stories, maybe this is avant-garde today.


H.

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