Syndicate: OBSCURE IS IN DANGER!

[Andreas Broeckmann <abroeck@v2.nl>]

Dear Friends,
here is a message from Canadian colleagues who have been working in the
field of media art for over ten years. V2 has friendly relations with them,
and I believe that some of the other Syndicalists have also worked with
them in the past. It seems ironic that a place like that is being closed
down at a time when we are fighting for new labs and centres here in
Europe, and when there is still a high demand on production places.
Maybe you can send them a supporting note, in true "Ljudmila_West" spirit.
Greetings,
-a

>Date: Fri, 9 May 1997 12:56:25 -0400 (EDT)
>X-Sender: obscure@pop3.qbc.clic.net
>To: hank@wimsey.com, jutta@aec.at, 101773.620@compuserve.com,
goldring@mit.edu,
>        v2@v2.nl, caro@interlog.com, cbmus@mills.ed, obscure@clic.net
>From: Obscure <obscure@clic.net>
>Subject: OBSCURE IS IN DANGER!
>
>We need your help
>
>OBSCURE IS IN DANGER.
>
>We want you to express your support as individuals close to our collective.
>As artists run-centres, related organisms, organisms with whom we have
>collaborated or institutions in position to appreciate our implication
>(job, contribution), we want you to express your support.
>
>Two reasons threaten our artists' collective survival.
>
>Le Minist�re de la culture et des communications du QuŽbec and the Canada
>Arts Council refuse to support the operating costs of la Salle Multi,
>Meduse's collective equipment, of which we had the management until last
>February. For this reason Obscure is undergoing with a very important
>operating deficit from the period of September 1995 to January 1997.
>
>The Canada Council's visual arts section puts and end, after more than ten
>years of recognition, to the recurrent support of our artists centre.
>Without any warning nor corrective period of time, Canada Council carry on
>the denial of our function among artists run-centres community of Canada.
>These two reasons combined have been translating by a drop in the loss of
>earnings for more than $90 000 for Obscure.
>
>Correspondances related with this are available. They explain much better
>the two situations. You have the possibility to read it on our Web page.
>
>We need your help.
>
>You are one of the 200 individuals artists that we number among our
>friendly accomplice. We are also requesting the help of 29 artists
>run-centres in Canada, 70 artists run-centres of Quebec, to more than 50
>cultural and community workers and to numerous institutional organisms that
>are close to us.
>
>We are asking you to write a supporting letter and to send it to Obscure by
>fax (418-529-5611) first, before May the 19, and after that by postal mail
>at our usual address : 650, c�te d'Abraham, QuŽbec (QuŽbec), G1R 1A1.
>
>Your supporting letter will be send back to all the members of the Canada
>Council's board of direction and du Conseil des arts et des lettres du
>QuŽbec. It will also be send to the political decision-makers and to the
>federal state-office decision-makers, provincial and local.
>
>Except a personnal written objection from your part, your support may be
>taken into the public media after May the 26.
>
>There is a wide-ranging of supporting arguments.
>
>Since its foundation in 1982, Obscure has become the flagship of artists
>run-centres in Quebec and Canada.
>
>Obscure set numerous precedents in the field of multidisciplinary arts.
>With its collaborations and coproductions policies, Obscure contributed to
>numerous major events, to the expansion of many artistic groups, and
>supported a geat number of creations.
>
>Today Obscure is the avant-garde for the use of computer codes and tools in
>the art field. With some few canadian associates, Obscure comes within
>international network to be under way. In the telematic arts field, network
>art and tools adapted to artists needs, Obscure is the leader. Computer
>applied to arts development and its accessibility is an urgent future way
>for artistic and community milieus.
>
>It is a shame that under cover of administrative and financial reasons,
>Obscure goes under the blade of restructurations and rationalisations
>ordered by neo-liberalism. Others may undergo the same fate.
>
>Besides these arguments there are also friendship, solidarity, common
>history, shared interest and the sense of future.
>
>If you think it's advisable, draw up your menu. Pick up your pen, your
>keyboard, your fax-modem, your phone compound and come bakc to us. Do it
>short, long, sweet, rough, but hurry. It's a matter of great urgency.
>
>We way have forgotten individuals or organisms whom would like to support us.
>
>Please check it with your acquaintances.
>
>Pass it around.
>
>A lot of thanks
>
>Obscure, 650, c�te d'Abraham, QuŽbec (QuŽbec), G1R 1A1 E-mail :
>obscure@qbc.clic.net
>TŽlŽphone (418) 529-3775
>TŽlŽcopieur (418) 529-5611
>
>
>
>De 1982 Ë? 1997...	quelques artistes
>
>ACREQ * Altman, Patrick * Andersen, Eric * Arbo Cyber, thŽ�tre (?) *
>Arcand, Pierre-AndrŽ * Arteau, Claude * Arteau, Gilles * Audet, Georges *
>Azzaria, Georges * Bailey, Derek * BŽdard, Louise * BŽgin, Lise * BŽlanger,
>Jean * Belley, Denis * Benvenuto, Luciano * Beresford, Steve * Bernard,
>Gilles * Berri Bergeron, Richard * BŽrubŽ, Daniel * Black Fungus *
>Blackburn, Pierre * Bobier, David * Boivin, Marc * Bongiovanni, Pierre *
>Boni, Raymond * Bonnier, Bernard * Bouchard, J-P. * Bouchard, Mario *
>Bouchard, Maurice * Boudreault, R. * Boulanger, GrŽgoire * Bouliane, Yves *
>Bourdon, Luc * Boyle, John * Brisson, C. * Brosseau, Lucie * Brown, Chris *
>Bruire * Bruit ttv * Bull, Hank * BussiÂ?res, Michel * Canadian Electronic
>Ensemble * Cantsin, Monty * Carbonneau, Robert * Carnivore * Carpentier,
>Pierre * Century, Michael * Chabanaud, Yvan * Chadbourne, EugÂ?ne *
>Chaimowicz, Marc * Champ Libre * Pelletier, Alain * Charuest, Yves *
>Chiennes 50¢ * ChoiniÂ?re, Isabelle * Ciona, Joâ??lle * Cohen, Bruno *
>Collectif et cie * Collins, Nicolas * Contrevent * Coop VidŽo * Cora, Tom *
>C�tŽ, Michel * C�tŽ, Michel F. * Couillard, Paul * Courchesne, Luc *
>Couture, JosŽe Marie * Curnoe, Greg * Cusak, Peter * Cutler, Chris * David,
>Alexandre * Davida, Dena * DeMarinis, Paul * Demers, Jean-Pierre *
>DŽpartement d'entraâ??nement Ë? l'insanitŽ totale (DEI) * Derome, Jean *
>Deronzier, Claire * Desjardins, Jacques * Deslauriers, France * Die Form *
>Diffusion i mŽdia * Dimuzio, Tom * Dion, Daniel * Dion, Lucie * Doneda,
>Michel * Dostaler, Guillaume * Doyon, HŽl�ne * Druick, Don * Dubault,
>Michel * Dubois, RenŽ-Daniel * Duchesne, AndrŽ * Dupuis-Larose, Murielle *
>Egorov, Slava * Æ?mard, Sylvain * Emim * Enfants terribles (Les) * Etron Fou
>Leloublan * Æ?vidence * Fabo, Andy * Faguy, Robert * Farrell, Dan * Favro,
>Marc * Filion, Danielle * Firquet, Boris * Firquet, Firmin * Fisher, HervŽ
>* Food R., Philip * Forcier, AndrŽ * Foresta, Don * Fradet, Lucie *
>FrŽchette, Jean-Yves * Frigo * Frisell, Bill * Frith, Fred * Fuchs,
>Wolfgang * GagnŽ, Gilbert * Gagnon, Jean-Claude * Gagnon, Jean-Pierre *
>Gassinger, Ilse * GŽlinas, Robert * Gervais, Raymond * Geuer, Juan *
>Giborski, Phil * Girard, FranÂ?ois * Girard, Gilles * Girling, Oliver *
>Go-Frettes (Les) * Goguen, Roland * Goldring, Æ?lizabeth * Goldstein, Sylvie
>* Grande Aventure (La) * Green, Marvin * GrŽgoire, Lucie * Grenier, Vincent
>* Guillemette, Louis * Guy, Barry * HachŽ, Louis * Hall, Jeff * Harwood,
>Andrew * Hatoum, Mona * HŽbert, Denis * HŽbert, Marjolaine * HŽbert, Pierre
>* HŽtu, Joanne * Heward, John * Hi Kim, Jin * Hills, Henry * Hirsh, Shelly
>* Holland, David * Houde, Marie-JosŽe * Houde, Picki * Infographie Canada *
>Insertion * Jack V * Jackson, Kareen * Janitors Animated * Jean, Marcel *
>Johnson, Rae * Jolicoeur, Nicole * Karkowski, Zbigniew * Kubota, Nobuo *
>Kuivila, Ron * La troupe du Marteau * Labrecque, Suzanne * Labrie, Lise *
>Labrosse, Diane * Lakatos, Jimmy * Lambert, Michel * Lamothe, Claude *
>Landon, Paul * Landry, Denis * Landry, Diane * Landry, Pascale *
>Langfelder, DulcinŽe * Langlois, Christian * Laverdi�re, Isabelle * Lazro,
>Daunik * Le FranÂ?ois, Jean * Le Guen, Æ?ric * Le Maâ??tre, Willy * LÂ? Quan,
>Ninh * LŽandre, Joâ??lle * Lechay, Jo * Leeming, Frances * LŽgarŽ, Ginette *
>Lemieux, Michel * Lepage, Robert M. * Letarte, Genevi�ve * LŽtourneau,
>Diane * LŽvesque, Luc * Lewis, Georges * Lord, HŽl�ne * Lord, Nathalie *
>Lucier, Alvin * Lussier, RenŽ * Mac Lennan, Alastair * Mah, Heather * Main
>Film : L'EspŽrance, Sylvain * Malenfant, Sylvie * Mara * Marchand, Lucie *
>Mitchell, Roscoe and the Sound Ensemble * Marclay, Christian * Marcoux,
>Lucie * Martel, Richard * Massicotte, Sylvie * Mc Caffery, Steve * Mc
>Nealy, Robert * McPhee, Joe * Meilleur, Martin * Michaud, David * Migone,
>Christof * Miller, Bernie * Miousse, Sylvain * Monahan, Gordon * Mongrain,
>Claude * Montal, Fabrice * Moren, Lisa * Mori, Ikue * Morin, Æ?mile * Morin,
>Robert * Morin, Roger * Moutillet, Myriam * Mullington, Chris * Muntadas,
>Antoni * Murphy, Serge * Nadeau, Carole * Namtchylak, Sainkho * Naylor,
>David * Neam Cathod * New York, Joe * Nihilist Spasm Band * Normandeau,
>Robert * Offermans, Will * Oswald, John * Ouellet, Louis * Ouimet, Gary *
>Panet-Raymond, Silvy * Paquet, Claire * Paquet, Suzanne * Parant, Jean-Luc
>* Parent, Louise * Parker, Evan * Partaik, James * Patry, Jean-Claude *
>Payeur, J.-Maurice * Pellegrinuzzi, Roberto * Perrin, Catherine * Perron,
>RŽjean * Peternak, Miklos * Pettigrew, Jacques * Pick, Karen * Piene, Otto
>* Pilon, Claude (cie de danse) * Plan K * PluraMuses * Poirier, Carl *
>Pratten Art * Prim vidŽo : Brunelle, Charles Mathieu * Productions
>Recto-Verso (Les) * Purdy, Richard * Quatre Guitaristes de l'Apocalypso-Bar
>(Les) * Quatuor de saxohones Pierre Bourque * Racine, Rober * Raine-Reusch,
>Randy * RattŽ, Michel * Raymond, Miguel * Razutis, Al * Reade, Cyril *
>Readman, Sylvie * Reichel, Hans * Reitzenstein, Reinhart * Renverser
>l'image * Richard, Alain-Martin * Rioux, Maxime * Ritter, Don * Robakowski,
>Josef * Robert, Jocelyn * Robertson, Clive * Robidoux, FranÂ?ois * Rochette,
>Daniel * Roger, Danielle. * Rokeby, David * Rose, Peter * Rosenzveig, Æ?ric
>* Rothenberg, Ned * Routhier, Jean * RŸdiger, Carl * Rueff-Schiffman,
>ElŽonore * Saint-Hilaire, Jean-Claude * Salvail, Reno * Santos, Carles *
>Sato, Michihiro * Saucier, Robert * Saulnier, Paul-Æ?mile * Sauvageau
>Grenier, Liliane * Savoie, Pierre-Paul * Saw Gallery * Schachter, R-N. *
>Schwager, Jeannette * Schwager, Reg * See, Henry * Serexhe, Bernhard *
>SŽvigny, Michel * Shaheen, Simon * Sharp, Elliott * Shea, David * Sheehy,
>Georges * Singer, Leah * Skeleton Crew * Smith, Bill * Snow, Michael *
>Sonami, Laetitia * Soudi, Mozaffar * SouliÂ?res, Daniel * Spelios, Tim *
>St-Onge, Michel * Stelarc * Steve Lacy Sextet * Sylvestre, Michel * Tanaka
>Atau * Tanguay, Pierre * TŽtreault, Martin * ThŽ�tre blanc * ThŽ�tre d'un
>jour * ThŽ�tre Le Contre-Courant * Thibault, Alain, * Thomas, David *
>Thompson, R. * Tobin, Nancy * Torikai, Ushio * Toussaint, Daniel *
>Tremblay, Marc * Tremblay, Yves * Trudel, Alain * Ueda, Junko * Un Drame
>musical instantanŽ * Unexpected * Vachon, Michel G. * Vaillancourt, Martin
>* Van Lier, Henri * Vanderborght, Christian * Vasconcelos, Nana * Vents du
>Mont Char * Verdi, Bruno * VidŽographe : Bourdon, Luc * Villemure, Marc *
>Villeneuve, Mario *Walsh, Bob * Weinstein, David * West, Julie * Wilson,
>Tony * Wondeur Brass * Zingaro, Carlos * Zorn, John *
>
>De 1982 Ë? 1997...	cinŽma vidŽo
>
>AndrŽe, Marie * Angers, Richard : Carri�re, Daniel * Akerman, Chantal *
>Ashley, Robert * Avery, Caroline * Baril, Yvon * Bausch, Pina * Beckett,
>Samuel * Bellochio, Marco * Belloir, Dominique * Berliner, Alan * Body,
>Gabor * Bokanowski, Patrick * Bouhours, Jean-Michel * Bourdon, Luc * Breer,
>Robert * Buitenhuis, Penelope * Bull, Hank : Metcalfe, Eric * BussiÂ?res,
>Michel * Bustros, Jean-Claude * Cantsin, Monty * ChŽreau, Patrice *
>Chambers, Jack * Child, Abigail * Clark, Charles * Claude, StŽphane *
>Codesal, Javier * Cook, Kevin * Couty, GŽrard * Couzin, Sharon * Dantas,
>Marcello * Day, Dennis * Decostere, Stefaan * De la CasiniÂ?re, Joâ??lle *
>Depardon, Raymond * Diekman, Kristine * Dion, Daniel : Poloni, Philippe *
>Duchamp, Marcel * Duras, Marguerite * Duyckaerts, Eric * Eggeling, Victor *
>Eisenberg, D. * Eizykman, Claudine * Erdely, Miklos * Eustache, Jean *
>Faher, Marta * Favro, Murray * Ferreri, Marco * Fiedrich, Su * Fihman, Guy
>* Firquet, Boris * Fisher, Morgan * Fischinger Oskar * Fleischner, Bob *
>Flemming, Ann Marie * FoldÂ?s, Peter * Forcier, AndrŽ * Frigon, Æ?laine *
>GagnŽ, Jean et Serge * Gallagher, Chris * GariŽpy, AndrŽ * Gehr, Ernie *
>Giraldeau, Jacques * Godard, Jean-Luc * Goldberg, Michael * Goulet,
>StŽphane * Graelt, W. * Greenaway, Peter * Grenier, Vincent * Greyson, John
>* Guney, Yilmaz * Hajas, Laszlo * Hamilton, Robert * Harding, Noâ??l *
>HasIanger, Martha * HŽbert, Bernard : Ouellet, Michel * HŽbert, Pierre *
>Hentz, Mike * Hills, Henry * Hirsh, Hy * Hoberman, Jim * Hummer Sisters *
>Hutton, Peter * Infermental * Infographie Canada * Jancso, Miklos *
>Jennings, Jim * Kapuscinski, Iaroslav * Kaya, Anita : Stahl, Ferdinand *
>Keller, Marjorie * Keseman, Nadine * Klarh, Lewis * Kobland, Ken * Kubelka,
>Peter * Labelle, Yves * Lakatos, Jimmy * Landon, Paul * Lattanzi, Barbara *
>Leduc, AndrŽ * Lefebvre, Jean-Pierre * LŽger, Fernand * L'EspŽrance,
>Sylvain * Levine, Richard * Levine, Saul * Liberowskaya, Katherine *
>Malaterre, Pascale * Mayer, Ir�ne * MŽli�s, Georges * Mettler, Peter *
>Middleton, Ian * MiŽville, Anne-Marie * Mowbray, Edward * Monahan, Gordon *
>Monk, Meredith * Movin, Lars * Morris, Bob * Murray, Ian * Muntadas, Antoni
>* Nekes, Werner * Nitoslawska, Marielle * Nyst, DaniÂ?le et Jacques-Louis *
>O'Neil, P. * Oshima, Nagisa * OzgentŸrk, Ali * Paik, Nam June * Pain,
>FranÂ?ois * Pasztor, Erika Katalina * Pauwels, Eric * Pelletier, Alain *
>Pelletier, Victor * Pionchon, Anne * Pollet, Jean-Daniel * Prado, Patrick *
>Puerrer, Ursula * Purdy, Richard * Kurosawa, Akira * Ramboz, Eve * Raxlen,
>Rick * Ray, Man * Reeves, Daniel * Revesz, Laszlo Laszlo * Richter, Hans *
>Rimmer, David * Rivette, Jacques * Robb, Bruce * Rodan, Keith * Rose, Peter
>* Ross, Ken * Rouch, Jean * Rovere, Pierre * Roy, Guylaine * Ruiz de
>Infante, Francisco * Rultman, Walter * Sanborn, John * Sasaki, Tomiyo *
>Schreiner, Volker * Sharitts, Paul * Shatavsky, Esther * Slopek, Edward *
>Snow, Michael * Steele, Lisa : Tomczak, Kim * Sugar, Janos * Tertysznyj,
>Igor * Toti, Gianni * Trudel, GisÂ?le * Vachon, Gail * Vanderborght,
>Christian * Van der Stracten, Andrea * Varda, AgnÂ?s * Vasulka, Steina *
>Vasulka, Woody * Victor, Renaud * Viola, Bill * Watt, John * Wellendorf,
>Cassandra * Wilson, Robert * Wright, Charles * Wronski, Peter * Zanussi,
>Kristoff * Zeno, Thierry * Zois, Kostis *
>
>...	quelques ŽvŽnements
>* 11e et 12e festival international du nouveau cinŽma Ë? quŽbec (1982-1983)
>* festival folie culture (1984-1987-1990) * lumens (1987) * Žvitez le bruit
>(1988) * le corps amplifiŽ (1993) * la parallaxe (1996) *
>
>Obscure
>650 Câ?¢te d'Abraham
>QuŽbec, Qc, Canada, G1R 1A1
>TŽl.: (418) 529-3775  Fax:(418) 529-5611
>obscure@qbc.clic.net
>http://www.qbc.clic.net/~obscure