A conflict / 2011

Posted by Sei Lee on October 1, 2011
Oct 012011

A conflict or symptom of other conflicts (2011)
selected by Sei (first year graduate in a.c.t program)

 

* 2083: A European Declaration of Independence (by Anders Behring Breivik)

Excerpts from 1,500-page Norway terrorist’s manifesto (By REUTERS) (link from arabnews.com)

Norway killer’s manifesto praises Japan for not adopting multiculturalism (japantoday.com)

Norwegian Terror Suspect said “I have nothing to do with Jesus” (christiantoday.co.kr)

Is Christian fundamentalist label correct for norway terror suspect?

 

* As They Happened: England Riots

2011 England Riots (wikipedia.org)

London Riots: Live Skype Interview With London’s Finest (What It Means To Black & British)

Live Riot Map, Live Video and – Alexander Higgins Blog

London and UK riots (a group on Flickr)

 

# I have a picture of ARTIST in THIS context in my head. It looks like M. Hulot in Jacque Tati’s “Trafic(France, 1971) You can glance at it in a scene.

# In addition, crisis can be a turning point.

 

Snapshot: “Dam”age in Brazil

Posted by fayefaye on September 30, 2011
Sep 302011
Snapshot:

“The 3.75-mile dam will displace 30,000 river dwellers, partially dry up a 62-mile stretch of the Xingu river, and flood large areas of forest and grass land.” Those “river dwellers” = indigenous tribes. The dam will be comparable to China’s notorious Three Gorges, the largest dam in the world. Read the articles here and here.   Farre Nixon, 09/30/11

[ipa] investigating crisis

Posted by Kristopher Swick on September 29, 2011
Sep 292011
[ipa] investigating crisis

contested space case study [Quoted from previous project proposal] http://ipacambridge.com/ Current Initiative: The Institute for Profitable Art, an art startup – residency at the CIC Introduction: We are happy to announce that we’ve secured our curatorial residency at the Cambridge Innovation Center! So on to the innovation! Until the end of Summer 2011, our head curator, kswick, will be setting up shop at least once a week in the CIC’s “Co-Working Space,” a space where small start-ups can work in an office setting with minimal commitment of capital and time to establishing a permanent office; clients of this section of CONTINUE…

[ipa] profiting from crisis

Posted by Kristopher Swick on September 29, 2011
Sep 292011
[ipa] profiting from crisis

for SALE: protest kits I’m interested in creating a “protest kit” for use in civil disobedience and selling it to protesters in upcoming protests locally. This kit will be in the same vein as DIY kits and/or instructions made available by artists, activists, NGO’s, etc. Examples: G20 Toronto Protest Kit “DON’T FORGET TO BRING ALONG A FUN ATTITUDE AND TEDDY WITH YOUR TEAR GAS REPELLENT” September 15 Protest Kit and Shop Planning or attending a protest in your area? Here are some resources to help you make an impact on September 15. Organize Locally Shirts, Slogans & Signs Synchronize Make CONTINUE…

Sep 282011

Through and art exhibition in Tijuana in 2008 Named Proyecto cívico /Civic Project, I get in intrigued by a concept “State of Exception” from the Italian political Philosopher Giorgio Agamben. I think in the context of this class when we are trying to define and expand the definition of conflict, crisis and emergency the concept of State of Exception also designated state of emergency can play an important role in expanding the definition. State of Exception (2005) “In this book, Agamben traces the concept of ‘state of exception‘ (Ausnahmezustand) used by Carl Schmitt to Roman justitium and auctoritas. This leads CONTINUE…

Infrastructure and Future Crises

Posted by Daniela on September 28, 2011
Sep 282011
Infrastructure and Future Crises

The question of what constitutes conflict and crisis today is perhaps most critically defined by the difficulty in finding the limits of that very definition. Of course there are large scale events and situations that are undeniable as conflicts or crises, but our day-to-day experiences are also filled with individual moments of conflict and crisis. So where do we draw the line between the extraordinary and the ordinary? What determines which conflicts and crises deserve priority over the others? Is it simply a matter of scale? Or the number of people affected? We have a tendency to focus on extreme CONTINUE…

Understanding and Interpreting Crises

Posted by fayefaye on September 28, 2011
Sep 282011

In order for us to address crisis victims via artistic interventions, we must first fully understand the terminology of “crisis” and the implications, methodologies, histories, and speculations surrounding it. Comments and discussion are welcome and appreciated!   Understanding and Interpreting Crises: Some Definitions What are the defining characteristics of a crisis? Disruptive (ex: earthquake) Heightens levels of risk and uncertainty (ex: viral epidemics) Threatens present standards of living, security, freedom, or aspirations (ex: rising national unemployment levels) Finite thresholds at risk of being breached (ex: ozone layer levels) Need for immediate human intervention in a preventative or reparative capacity (ex: CONTINUE…

Crisis and its Immediacy

Posted by Lily Tran on September 28, 2011
Sep 282011
Crisis and its Immediacy

The Oxford English Dictionary defines crisis as: A vitally important or decisive stage in the progress of anything; a turning point; also a state of affairs in which a decisive change for better or worse is imminent; now applied especially to times of difficulty, insecurity and suspense in politics or commerce. We see crisis as a state where great turmoil has shattered and interrupted the lives of individuals. Often crisis stems from political and economic turmoil but also a natural disaster. Crisis often involve great brutality and oppression, poverty and a threat to survival, and overall, a great loss of CONTINUE…

a hierarchy of grief.

Posted by Jenine Shaban Kotob on September 26, 2011
Sep 262011
a hierarchy of grief.

In an attempt to dissect and analyze Freud’s discussion of melancholia and mourning, Judith Butler in Precarious Life: The Powers of Mourning and Violence, addresses this idea of a, “hierarchy of grief.” We live in a society so engulfed in war and death that so quickly decides the value of one human life and so easily dismisses the sacredness of another. Media outlets tend to lump and calculate overseas death tolls for certain regions of the world, and not others. We decide what groups deserve a lengthy broadcast that clearly depicts their loss and touches on our need to grieve CONTINUE…

Sep 262011
Zones of Emergency - Tragedies in Japan

To me, a zone of emergency is a location that has been affected by a debilitating crisis and needs cultural restoration to help regrowth and rebuilding. As a physics major, I have taken a history of physics class and learned about the Manhattan Project and the thoughts and emotions behind the atomic bomb from the side of US physicists. Unfortunately, I have not learned about anything that was done culturally to help rebuild Japan or support the civilians there who were devastated by the aftermath of the nuclear bombings.  This information is overshadowed by the death toll and the fact CONTINUE…

A few implications of American Exceptionalism

Posted by Silver on September 26, 2011
Sep 262011
A few implications of American Exceptionalism

Credit: http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/07/26/us-africa-famine-idUSTRE76P1A220110726 Crisis begin more often with ideas than actions. Actions substantiate the circumstances implied by an idea. One example is American Exceptionalism. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_exceptionalism American Exceptionalism fuels US foreign policy and domestic self-image unconsciously, while framing the global psychological and philosophical position of the country. It functions as an enabler for influence and intervention by shifting the frame of judgement for our actions from practical implications and measurable outcomes to emotion, belief, and rhetoric. ///////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////// One of the most damning paradoxes of the USA’s efforts to spread it’s style of democracy globally is the fact the USA imprisons a higher percentage CONTINUE…

Sep 212011
Conflicting crises as the fabric of society

  Crisis via conflict Layla Shaikley, Baghdad   A photo journal// The term crisis is often referred to in a plethora of ways–the outcome of war is often defined as a crisis, water shortages fall under the scope of crises, and one may have an identity crisis. A crisis refers to intense difficulty or trouble. To analogize between Newtonian physics, crisis to the 3rd Law of Motion is the reaction to conflict. To narrow my scope, I will focus on crisis in conflict. To use the example that pertains directly to my field of study, the subject is the most CONTINUE…