Re: AW: Syndicate: Fwd: Do no longer exhibit in Austria! (fwd)

[Miklos Peternak <peternak@c3.hu>]

Dear Romana, dear all,

You have to know that I strongly disagree to join to any artistic
boycott, agressive messages - following EU governments decision - by
artists and intellectuals (even radically than the original
initiative).
Artist better should go there and express their point of view, even their
political opinions if they have such, though I think that is not the main
goal of  art...
It is much better to do this in situ. And undertake the risk of
direct confrontation in case...
This might mean some help. To stay far enough and send humanistic and
discriminative appeal from the far: this strategy absolutely fits to the
strategy of the opposed. You all have to know that.

with my very bests
miklos
(&:some more remarks below)

At 07:08 PM 2/2/00 +0100, you wrote:
dear syndicates


Dear Mr. Fleck,
first - not only the artists in Austria are afraid and ashamed about
the
political developments in Austria
second - I can not agree on your strategy  - I mean your pladoyee
for 'let's
isolation the austrian cultural scene'
I do  have memory and in it the sense of isolation we lived some
ten-fifteen years ago and before in Hungary. I might say that isolation
do not help, but the opposite.

Subject: 
          Do no longer
exhibit in Austria! (fwd)
    Date: 
          Wed, 2 Feb 2000
09:35:58 +0100 (MET)
....
Nantes, 2.2.2000
Dear friends,
....
the death of Vaclav Havel, whole Central
Europe can burn in the same way
like 
Austria now. The Czech Republic, Romania, Bulgaria, etc. are ready
to
follow 
this political choice.
I do not think so. And if there is a danger like that, it is not specific
regarding the region (see Belgium, or France in this context). And this
"etc." after the series of different countries and cultures in
one line means less understanding than necessary....

1. NO LONGER EXHIBIT OR COOPERATE WITH
AUSTRIA
You mean: stop the Syndicate lists "aec.at" extension? Stop to
cooperate Public Netbase after their previous conflict with the party I
do  not wish to name now? I hope these examples are enough.


Regards,


Miklos Peternak, Director
C3 Center for Culture & Communication, 
P.O.Box 419, Budapest 1537, Hungary
Phone:Â Â +361 214 6856Â  Fax: +361 214
6872 
http://www.c3.hu/