Syndicate: (fwd) Igor Stepancic: POW pro

[Andreas Broeckmann <abroeck@v2.nl>]

Date: Sun, 16 May 1999 11:15:15 +0200
From: "Igor Stepancic" <igor@blueprintit.com>


HI,

POWs are writing to inform you that a new project is installed on
http://www.blueprintit.com/pow and should you choose you are free to visit
it. We would be happy to hear from you and your opinion about the site.

We are sending transcripts of intoductiory textes for POW project.  First
texte is about project  itself and the other is abuot Beuys vs Warhol. The
other projects to be installed are titled:


PERSEU'S SHIELD
DOLLY'S LAMBS
ART AT THE END....


Also at the end of Beuys vs Warhol piece there is a DISCUSSION BOARD with
topics to be updated regulary. We welcome all the artists to participate
and also produce some work to be installed on the site.

Should you request any other information or want to comment on the project
please mail to the following addresses:
pow@blueprintit.com
brigates@tin.it


"POW CAMP SITE"


This is an interactive project initiated by artists from Beograd as it is
being bombed. It is about art being a prisoner of war, so every artist is a
prisoner of war.
Being confined to the isolation of the "CAMP(WEB) SITE" artists make work
as a reaction to it. It welcomes all artists, throughout the world,
who feel like POWs to take part and exhibit their work.
In this sense it is open to different approaches to ART AGAINST RAT (WAR)
and the position of an artist living life during war time.
The initial thesis will be installed on the "site" in the form of art work
using images to communicate and artists can directly install their works on
the site. We hope it will become a discussion group for artists/POWs on the
"CAMP(WEB) SITE"."

"BEUYS vs. WARHOL underlines two positions in art, one American
and other European, by confronting two icons of 20th century art.
It explores the power of images and concepts in a battle for individuality
for all wars negate individual differences.
The same mechanism is found in mass production and propaganda
though the outcomes are so different. Western art values individuality and
tries hard to promote it but in essence it negates it.
Beuys uses collective actions to strengthen and underline individuality.
Warhol shows that individuality is insignificant."

Best regards,

POW



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