Wednesday, July 6, 2011

118 / Periklis Costopoulos / Greece








Periklis writes: 

" ' Hermes, The Psychopomp' as the Messenger God in Greel Mythology, was an escort for the dead to help them find their way to the Underworld."

117 / Karen Howard / Scotland


116 / Laura Christensen / USA
























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115 / Ranjan Engti / India






















 




Rajan writes:

"AFSPA is no doubt a draconian law. It is a weapon to fight militants in disturbed areas. Unfortunately, a few, if not all soldiers, terrorize innocent civilians by indulging in  fake encounters, custodial killings, rape, rights abuse, etc. In fact, many innocent lives have been lost in the campaign which exacerbates the volatile situation. And half a century of its imposition however does not improve the situation in the area......"





"People die because someone wants a red light on their car and feel important. They steal your money and lie to you in the face. Comes secretly in the night and kill the innocent in their house. Wants to divide us in the name of God. Come for 5 years and push us 50 years back. We silently walk up and seal our fate on a ballot in a box. They give their speeches as we do the war dance for them. And for years the said 'vanguards' of our society walks up and sit besides them. The kings and would be kings bathe in our blood before taking their thrones. It is DEMONcracy and its PRE-ELECTION SAGA unfolds....."








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114 / Julie Cannon / New Zealand

113 / Horst Baur / China


112 / Eline 't Sant / Belgium


























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111 / Nikki Soppelsa / USA


110 / Nabi Nara / Germany



 


Nabi writes:

"White Lies Lies
  
In our society in which we live now, we are forced somehow not to think about death, as the same getting old. Even if the fact that we are born, likewise all the other creatures, means that we are going to grow and die. It is a natural phenomenon. But in our society, it is often considered as a taboo and i think it is strongly connected to pragmatic view of our Age. What i would like to try is to reveal the story of that taboo using the sentence white lies lies."
  




























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109 / Willie Marlowe / USA

























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108 / Michele Amendolari / USA


107 / Virginia Milici / Italy








Virginia recently curated ABAD Italia 
in Treviso, Italy

106 / Anne Holliday / New Zealand

105 / Allan Revich / Canada

104 / JF Chapelle / France

103 / Marilyn Marvin / USA

102 / Debra Ann Kasimakis / USA


Friday, July 1, 2011

101 / Allen Bukoff / USA

Allen is the Acting Director of Fluxus Midwest

COME WITNESS NEW, NEVER-BEFORE-SEEN 
WORK BY RAY JOHNSON


Allen writes:
"I created this booklet  just for "ABAD: Ties That Bind," and none of the Ray Johnson work/art featured in this booklet has ever been exhibited anywhere in public before (including the internet). 

The booklet is titled "A Book About Ray Johnson and Hot Dogs," and it documents Ray Johnson's contributions to one of my Fluxus Midwest projects. 

This work of Ray's has never been publicly exhibited before and I felt that your exhibition was a great occasion to pull this material together and share it with the world." 

THIS IS ONLY PAGE ONE–THE ENTIRE BOOKLET WILL DEBUT AT THE EXHIBITION!