File spoon-archives/avant-garde.archive/avant-garde_2004/avant-garde.0405, message 1


Date: Mon, 3 May 2004 18:39:47 +0200 (CEST)
From: Heiko Recktenwald <uzs106-AT-uni-bonn.de>
Subject: Re: "Psychogeographie"


Hi,

On Thu, 15 Apr 2004, James Allan wrote:

> Heiko Recktenwald wrote:
>
> > The Flick collection in Berlin.
> > Modern art as ?
>
> - an uncomfortable bed.
>
> "82.8% declared themselves in favour of showing the Flick collection,
> 17.2% against."

Well, for me it has two sides.
The main opponents argument against the exhibition is the "slave labor"
argument. Dont know how much money came from "slave labor" and how much
money came from other sources.
And I think the whole "slave labor agreement", that was not signed by
Flick, is a present, nothing that was really owed on a legal base.
It was about aming "good wether". Insofar Flick doesnt make me upset.
What made me really upset was the Prime Minister of Israel, who spoke of
Palestinensian "illusions" as far as the well known claims are concerned.
And the hate crime debate, activated by some conference in Berlin, in
favour of Israels war against the Palestinensians. This is an unjust war,
that cannot be justified. And it isnt yet over.
Well, I am more interested in the present times, who does what. Not so
much into propaganda.
Maybe Flick should show his works of art in Jerusalem, in the eastern part
of the town.

The Nazis made a lot of propaganda, but what really changed things was not
propaganda, but actual killing of people by the state, or by laws, that
allowed killing. Etcpp.

Why did the swiss, heros in WW II etc, condemn Flick?

Anyway, best, H.




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