| 001 | 16.June_Mon |
Preview from a Running System Berlin, Welcome, first time visitor! If you start now...you might just make it before the rest of us. You can now make use of your know-how About The Net and its notorious state of becoming. Today everything is radical new. You can smell the fresh rgb-colours, step into clean newsgroups, the team is running to get the last work done, you are stumbling over tools and unfinished working material, you meet other confused first users, two days before the big rush. /pit Over the last few days things drastically changed in kassel. it gets busy. you suddenly realise that one of the more subtle power strategies of XXL events like the docu menta is to make you feel you are missing out on something. the more people arrive, the more one starts to feel tense. within the micropolitics of representational hirarchies the tables in the cafe of the documenta become locations with the potential of being the right place at the right time. of course they never are. but that just makes it worse. one might come to the conclusion that there should have been more to lunch or dinner conversation they had - and as soon as one starts thinking that they understand themselves as having been at the wrong place at the wrong time. and why is that then?!
we had a very calm and concentrated week down here. now it gets busy. it wouldn't need to, but that is how things might seem more important to few. however, we have to get through the opening rituals to get going. -micz
| 002 | 17.June_Tue |
documenta mobilises every single person living within a 50 mile radius around kassel and who is willing and (somehow) capable of working. they will work non-stop up to thursday. however, we can have non of them. that's just they way things are.
we bought paint, brushes, sandpaper and all the utensils you need to have a prime time allnighter in the orangerie. the original colouring of the 'architectural elements' will be hidden by the time the first of participants arrive (the same counts for the press of course). it would not make much sense to describe them in ascii mode.
quite intersting that the consensus colouring will be grey... a light grey. if you had thrown all the individual preferences into one bucket and gave it a good stir that's what you would have got anyway. what an overwhelming metaphor of decision making...
thorsten already slipped into shiobhan hapaska's outer space overall and i will slip into another one as soon as this mail has been sent. whoever reads this in the night between the 17th and 18th of june 1997 - raise your glass towards kassel.
-micz
| 003 | 18.June_Wed |
| | Workgroup: | Social Spaces - Berlin |
last day for updating the sofware, last day to prepare the space, last day for the members to join the first team, i wonder how many people are existed this night, cannot sleep, have a scewdriver in their hand or painting a wall... we are just trying to find bugs in the software. and every software has a but..
Scheinschlag send the first text and of course it is German, so another discussion about a basic principle which gets decided by practise finally.
/pit
| 004 | 19.June_Thu |
| | Workgroup: | Social Spaces - Berlin |
what do you do with 1800 journalists? we don't know what exactly happened at the press conference of the DX press preview. but the visitors who came today to listen to 3 hours of manifestoes looked pretty confused, they were looking for art. diana and clemens looked really tough and beautyful, like 2 terrorists on holiday, on the evening the whole media studio changed íinto a audio visual chillout zone with great graphics from Eve Hurford and Till Vanish champagne as usual and lots of art fold around having a nice time... /pit
| 007 | 22.June_Sun |
| | Workgroup: | Social Spaces - Berlin |
scheinschlag implemented their discussion in a rather modified way. due to perceiving the architecture and structure of the room in power hirarchies which made the initial plans unapplicable they suggested to have (yet another) debate concerning the aims and realities of the hybrid workspace. (real audio soon)
the first discussion involved not only the participants from scheinschlag, berlin, but including groups, projects and AGs from kassel (for furhter description please wait for the 'thread' to fill up).
about lunch time we had 30 minutes of rem koolhaas' valuable time and tom fecht manufactured an interview losely connected to the edward said talk at the 100 days and hundred guests from yesterday (see diary for brief critique).
the complete interview (as well as the debate above) will be on real audio soon. i guess we will also include links to the real ideo and VDO iles in the diary - but they are not on-line yet.
currently we are in the process of extracting 2 hours of radio (broadcasted tonight) from the masses of material produced. time based censorship. this also will be available on real audio soon.
What : Opening Screening
When : @11:00 - 13:00
Where: Orangerie
screening of videos, selected by Scheinschlieg by Scheinschlag - pondering and contemplating the diversity of urbanism and urban identity]
What : Dialogue
When : @13:00 - 15:18
Where: Orangerie
Scheinschlag Berlin & Kassel Innenstadtaktionen & invited guests on urbanism, citizenship, buildings and people, objects and subjects
What : Interview
When : @16:00 - 16:30
Where: Orangerie Media Studio
Interview with Rem Kolhaas, architect, Rotterdam and Tom Fecht, journalist, Berlin
What : conversation
When : @16:30 - 17:00
Where: Orangerie Sofa
Scheinschlag, Berlin in conversation with (and attempting to define) Hybrid Workspace
What : radio
When : @16:30 - 17:00
Where: salzmann fabrik
Production of the Hybrid Workspace radio - broadcasted tonight (as every Sunday) between 23.00 and 01.00 on 88.9 FM
| 008 | 23.June_Mon |
| | Workgroup: | Social Spaces - Berlin |
after digitising (and presenting) the WorkSpace radio show from june the 22nd we had a little break to reassemble the room for the 'Faktor Arbeit' presentation.
in a very sublte slide show we were introduced to the country side around pritzwalk in the east of germany. the unemployment rate is high and in rural areas there is not much hope to find a job anyway. the aim of a group of people (employed by the employment office - including peter funken) was to develop certain skills which were hopefully helping the unemployed workforce to get back into work... however, it turned out that most of the former agricultural employees had very little knowledge of reading and writing and it seemed evident to start at a very early level of job development - the more skilled participants trained the less skilled ones.
traditional (and urban?) models of employment and work did not apply to the given situation around pritzwalk. different forms of exchange established themselves(almost naturally). the group of participants in the training course started to work for each other. workforce and knowledge were exchanged underneath (or beyond, besides?) the surface of exchange mediums such as money. a 'give and take' strategy consolidated (leaving the traditional socio-political equity theories intact - nevertheless providing new parameters of equality). the 'headquarter' of the training course - situated in an old 'plattenbau' became a meeting point, a location of pleasure, recreation, planning for further activites in the community.they exchanged information while playing cards. while planting a pine tree the group (or workforce) burried a tin can including a polaroid picture of themselves next to it. identification.
eventually the training scheme had to stop their activities because it did not meet the aims set out by the central employment office. such were: training in writing cvs (which were not needed), training in job interviews (which there were none).
following the experience of two years in pritzwalk peter funken organised the exhibition 'faktor arbeit' (factor work). mainly consisting of politically or socially motivated works it comes across as the logical continuation of new arrangements to measure, value and exchange time and skills.
What : opening + re-listening
When : @11:30 - 15:00
Where: Orangerie
info-sound ambient kit / WorkSpace Radio of Sunday, 22.6.97
What : Factor Arbeit - presentation
When : @15:00 - 16:30
Where: Orangerie
- Presentation of the program/person
- Faktor Arbeit - introduction
- slide series from a project with longtime unemployed in Brandenburg
- talk with Karl Hofman Film and Claudius Wachtmeister on the movie Bild Leipzig
- screening of Bild Leipzig (45 min.)
What : interview with Alexandr Sukorov
When : @16:30 - 17:00
Where: Orangerie
Alexandr Sukorov is the third guest of the 100 days discussion program
What : Faktor Arbeit - presentation
When : @17:00 - 18:30
Where: Orangerie
- Animation "Paradise Now"
- Karl Hofmann "Privatisierung - Leipziger Bahnhof"
- Karl Hofmann: "Paradise Now"
- Storyboard "Alle wollen gut leben"
- Beirut in Berlin? Siedlungswesen in Velten/Berlin
| 009 | 24.June_Tue |
| | Workgroup: | Social Spaces - Berlin |
after a frantic mailbox-reply-and-sorting procedure in the early (and not so early) morning hours we entered the second half of the day - precisely at 1500 hours (sharp). "Faktor Arbeit II".
the oscillating traffic between the workstations and the discussion/presentation space still swallows a vast amount of concentration and time and workforce. nevertheless routine seems to slowly creep into our day to day duties. routine is often associated with boredom - i can't wait to reach that level of understanding...
assuming that work is one way of spending time on whatever activity we had the pleasure to come across rather challenging types of work. T. Haake-Brandt's video "Faule Säcke! Nutzt eure Freizeit! Kaut auf Gegenständen!" shows the author knibbling on the lense of the recording video camera. the idea developed during experience of *working* as a night porter for a big company and spending the (free with the job) spare time scribbling on thousands of papers. scribbling is well known amongst telephone addicts - knibbling is as well, but only related to pencils and phone cables. so - why is that. the objects we come across here range from a stool across a variety of lamps to a bird house. the knibbled objects are in fact rather beautiful and remind one of photographic evidence in car magazines on little mighty animals attacking the inferior car owner, ruining the engine's connectivity.
something completely similar was presented in the video "heimlich" by P. Wiedemann. it showed an endless knitted tube from the angle of a camera being forced head first through it... flipping between sexual pleasures and claustrophobic atmosphere. beautiful colours and the closest you can get to hand-made mandelbrot fractals in wool.
micz
What : Video Films
When : @15:00
Where: Hybrid WorkSpace
Video: D.Wenner, P.Funken, H.Höge,"Die Viererbande - Arbeitslosigkeit auf dem Land", 1997
Video: T. Haake-Brandt, "Faule Säcke! Nutzt Eure Freizeit! Kauft Auf Gegenstaenden", 1997
Video: von P.Wiedemann, "heimlich", 1996
Video: G.Leidloff, "Death-masks and Mannequins", 1997
Parts of "UTV Wochenschau", 1996,
A.Creischer, Andreas Sieckmann, 1996
G.Leidloff: "Mrs. Olga de Mooy", 1996
Discussion with all artists.
What : Videoconference
When : @19:00 - 21:00
Where: Orangerie
a public panel on the Albert-Ludwigs-University Freiburg.
"Abendteuer Internet" with F.A. Kittler, Bazon Brock,
Margit Fischbach, Dr. A Rossnagel, Steffen Wernery,
Michael Klemen, Geert Lovink -- connecting to Workspace
| 010 | 25.June_Wed |
| | Workgroup: | Social Spaces - Berlin |
we are reorganising archived stuff, reviewing what we have, and working on the web architecture.
Berlin Pavillion rearranged the room architecture last night, be surprised! ...?
What : reorganising
When : @11:00 - 14:00
Where: Orangerie
workspace staff: copying tapes, digitizing material, transscripting interviews, reviewing videos, reading old e-mail
What : Berlin Pavillion
When : @14:00 - 18:00
Where: Orangerie
chill out, preview, presentation, chat, videos, tapes, surprises.. public-semi-public-private
| 011 | 26.June_Thu |
| | Workgroup: | Social Spaces - Berlin |
Thomax killed almost 7 flies so far. The DX workspace discussion forum is almost running together with the newsgroups and workspace main channel.
Wolfgang Ernst and Arnold Dreyblatt talked about archives and memory rooms which corresponded very well with the Interview Rem Koolhaas gave. Diana McCarthy is currently interviewing Arnold. The question is how much the room, the media, and the people (producers/visitors) are remembering, how much attention can workspace attract? The ten members which came from Pavillion of the Volksbuehne Berlin, rearranged the room into a kind of management training center, a consulting agency for young artists, and interested . It seemed that the space the documenta reinvoces the memory of Joseph Beys' seminars of 'Direkte Demokratie'. The funny way of affirmating and rearranging the clean corporate esthetics - for those who can remember...
What : Social Spaces Öffentlicher Raum Berlin
When : @12:00 - 15:00
Where: Orangerie
KünstlerInnen des Pavillon der Volksbühne am Rosa-Luxemburgplatz sind im HybridWorkSpace. Verschiedene Projektionen und Interviewsituationen sind im Raum vorhanden.
| 012 | 27.June_Fri |
| | Workgroup: | Social Spaces - Berlin |
slowly starting, people filling the room, an info in German is informing about the existance of language borders. Up on the hill, in front of the dx-info-boxes the demo-catalogues are watered by the constant summer rain. 'Politics with an E'. So far the DX machine produced an impressive ammount of textes, and many of us havn't seen the exhibition yet. The summer of content is definetly also an ideal of C.D. - who did not show off here since the opening. Noon, we're drinking coffee, filling the web-workspace with textes because the workgroups still hesitate. Behind the Rigips-Wall another soundcheck is going on. Meanwhile we are waiting for the first control visit of the DX organising team.
The room is well maintained. Every morning it seems to get cleaned. Still we need some technology, more workers, and food. The five free 'Mitarbeiteressen' traded out with our commercial neighbor, lets one think if it wouldn't be better to open an own bar.
Berlin Pavillion just showed a video they did with some west german kids visiting the DX spectacle. The 10 members of the group seem to develope a left and right wing, one which is more for creating communicative situations, the other more for inscription into the various media, process against concept. They succesfully exlored the room, decentralised it with decomposing the elements into different 'communication zones'. Visotors 'browse' through the room and get in contact with one of the young artists.
Berlin Salon will start with their second panel today. Hope it will be more crowded with interested visitors. The concept of the memory room, got already included by the Pavillion group, which loop their own recordings of the first workdays in workspace.
Thomas Wendt a helpful sys-admin who is doing the mailinglists at www.Documenta.de just is calling in and gives some hints how to connect our mailinglist with theirs.
thomax killed 13 flies so far.
/pit
What : On Memory - Ort und Erinnerung
When : @16:00 - 19:00
Where: Orangerie
Diskussionsveranstaltung zum Thema Ort und Erinnerung
Organisiert vom [berlin]salon
mit Simone Hainund Jürgen Hohmuth
| 013 | 28.June_Sat |
| | Workgroup: | (cross the border) No one is illegal |
this morning we´ve taken over hybrid workspace. from 10.00 a.m.
a germanwide conference of more than 30 antiracist groups
took place inside the orangerie. we discussed the wording of
the appeal "no one is illegal"
tomorrow we´re gonna present it to the public. we can hardly
finish this diary entry, cause all of us are extremely tired.
the whole of last night we spent driving to kassel. now we have to sleep.
| 014 | 29.June_Sun |
| | Workgroup: | (cross the border) No one is illegal |
3 a.m. We started the second day of [cross the border] with a press conference at 11 a.m. to expose the yesterday's call for the campaign "No one is illegal" to the public. The campaign is running since yesterday!! The guests of Hybrid WorkSpace are asked to sign the call and lots of people have already signed it . The first one to sign was a member of the socialist party in the regional government. After the press conference we had a meeting to organise the rest of the day, to adjust the technical equipment to our needs. Right now videos are shown, there's an exhibition about refugee camps in Germany and an office for handing over EU-passports to illegal refugees is going to be set up in the next few minutes on the lawn in front of the Hybrid WorkSpace. - babse
What : presentation
When : @14:00 - 16:00
Where: orangerie
1st public presentation of "no one is illegal"
| 015 | 30.June_Mon |
| | Workgroup: | (cross the border) No one is illegal |
this morning we woke up after a really not to much sleep. the night before we spent with some wine and grappa after a dinner to which we were invited. a warm meal! :)) we were in a good mood, because we had the first visit by the police, yesterday afternoon. they were quite interested in the passport exchange office, we set up in the grass in front of the orangerie and in the blazing sun. unfortunately the policeman refused to give us his id or passport. and also his badge we didn´t get :( but he promised to report all our work to his superiors. in general it was very exciting to see how people react, as soon as they are asked for the shreds of paper that prove their identity - more so, because it was obviously reality breaking in. o.k.
we changed the work space round, to make it useable for our interests: we pushed the stage into the corner, to get rid of the hierarchical room structure. now we have settees in a round to watch videos and listen to our radio programs and in the evening there is enough comfortable space for our meetings. we transfered part of our technical gear from the narrow studio space to the big room to create better working conditions. the result of the days work was broadcast at midnight on cassel free radio for one hour. the program's theme was migration. we broadcast the appeal "no one is illegal" in german and english, a report on the 'passport exchange office' and recordings of an event in munich with salah, one of the spokesmen of sans papiers in paris. the programm was a feature with topical musik, e.g. massive attack, draft punk and d'n'b from France. the programm was a great success and now we make copies for further broadcasts in other local radio stations. it's a good experience to do everything ourselves without technical support from other sources because traditionally the production aspect, i.e. the focus on content rather than entertainment,in the making of radio programms is totally undervalued. We made a stamp with the inscription "Kein Mensch is illegal" and offered the visitors to get their bank-notes stamped. One visitor wanted all his notes stamped (DM 300,00) and promised to come back to get a stamp in his passport. We'll see, whether he keeps his promise. The afternoon we presented four documentary films of Mogniss Abdallah by Agence Immedia, France. These were the films "Aufenthalt im Widerstand", "La Ballade des Sans-papiers", "Britain's Black legacy" and "Le syndrome Hoyerswerda". In the evening we offered a public talk with Mogniss Abdallah about the situation of the sans-papiers movement after the victory of the socialist party and on the question of media strategies.
What : video screening
When : @13:00 - 14:00
Where: Orangerie
Aufenthalt im Widerstand
A documentary by Mogniss H. Abdallah & Ken Fero
D/30 min/1991
What : video screening
When : @14:00 - 15:30
Where: Orangerie
La Ballade des Sans Papiers
Documentary by Samir Abdallah & Raffaele Ventura
(english subtitles) F/30 min/1996
What : video screening
When : @16:00 - 17:00
Where: Orangerie
Britains black legacy
Documentary by Mogniss H. Abdallah & Ken Fero
(english subtitles) E/45 min/1991
What : video screening
When : @17:00 - 18:00
Where: Orangerie
Le Syndrome Hoyerswerda
Documentary by Jooy Banerjee, Mogniss H. Abdallah & Yonas Endrias
D/45 min/1995
What : round table talk
When : @18:00 - 19:00
Where: Orangerie
Migrant Media
About actual media tactics and strategies
feat. Mogniss H. Abdellah, Filmmaker, Paris
| 016 | 01.July_Tue |
| | Workgroup: | (cross the border) No one is illegal |
yesterday night we edited our video and audio clips and some of us worked in the orangerie until 6 a.m. in the morning. no wonder, half of the group turned up only at 12 a.m. and as soon as we found a parking place miles away from the orangerie, a big cloudburst gave us the chance to a second shower. we go on asking the people to stamp their money with the slogan of our campaign no one is illegal . it looks very funny and tomorrow you can have a look at it on our websites. some minutes ago the connectix camera started to work and later in the evening we´re gonna have the first video conference with the people in paris, who occupied a townhall on saturday and were evicted by a brutal police action.
21.30
it seems that we´re getting into some routine. audio and video loops grow day by day. in addition to the material we already brought with us we are now adding footage from the festival, shots of ourselves and the pigs, even if they threaten us with legal action. mogniss from paris went back, and now we´re looking for the announced cu-see me conference with the activists there. after three days several hundred people subsribed to our call no one is illegal .
What : video-screening
When : @13:00 - 17:00
Where: orangerie
Justice denied Documentary by Joy Garnder, Kwanele Siziba &
Joseph Nnalve
E/50 min/1995
What : video-screening
When : @13:00 - 17:00
Where: orangerie
Justice denied Documentary by Joy Garnder, Kwanele Siziba &
Joseph Nnalve
E/50 min/1995
La Ballade de Sans Papiers
Documentary by Samir Abdallah & Raffaele Ventura
F/90 min/1996
Sweet France Documentary by Mogniss Abdallah & Ken Fero
F/50 min/1992
Tasting freedom
Documentary
E/50 min/1994
| 017 | 02.July_Wed |
| | Workgroup: | (cross the border) No one is illegal |
last night we made our first experiences with cassel nightlife. it was impossible to find something to eat round midnight. we went to bed hungry and got up not in the best mood. but it changed as soons as we arrived in the orangerie. lots of new ideas how to go on, even if some of us left cassel, because they have to work. we announced a poster competition for the campaign no one is illegal : "wanted: artists" is written on a big poster on the pillars of the orangerie entrance and: "our campaign no one is illegal needs a design". stamping banknotes with the slogan no one is illegal becomes quite fashionable in cassel these days. today for example a man from Estnia stamped all his estnian banknotes and some people came here only, because they wanted to get their banknotes stamped. some of us are distributing flyers with the request to stamp banknotes all over cassel. we´re waiting for three people from paris, we hope they arrive in the early evening. video and networking goes on, but much more slowly than in the last days. the weather is too fine.
| 018 | 03.July_Thu |
| | Workgroup: | (cross the border) No one is illegal |
Around midnight we had the CU-SeeMe meeting with rue l'olive in Paris. Just when we got the first pictures our next guests arrived: Amadeus, Gilles and Pascal from Paris. Gilles managed to open a bottle of red wine using only a knife and a screw and we had a drink together that could be seen in Paris, where our guests had just left. Only a short time later Marc, Annique and Pascal arrived. After talking about the next day's program we decided to go to our apartment, where we had some more wine. After a very short night we arrived at the workspace rather early in the morning. Pascal and Gilles had brought some collages and brilliant photos with them and we have them now exhibited in the workspace. Many visitors are interested in the Photos and the collages. The workspace is filling up now. The walls are covered with posters, photos, leaflets and other writings. All of us have seen the videoloop now many times and it is still not getting on our nerves. At 3.00 p.m. we had a round table talk with our french guests about the situation of the sans-papiers movement after the elections and the further development especially the occupation of the townhall on Saturday, 28 june. We also talked about church asylum in France and Germany, the possibilities of a movement of illegalized people in Germany and tried to find out, whether there is less self-organization of immigrants in Germany than in France or if it follows only different rules. At 7.00 p.m. the antirassismusbüro Bremen presented their book "They treat us like animals - racism in the police force and the legal system". A member of the group reported on how black people were arrested and abused by police officers, especially by violently forcing them to take vomitives, as this is common practice in the Bremen police force up to now.
What : round table talk
When : @15:00 - 18:00
Where: orangerie
represent!
round table talk with media activists and artists
from paris supporting the sans-papiers movement.
What : lecture
When : @19:00 - 22:00
Where: orangerie
they treat us like animals
lecture and discussion with members of the
antiracist bureau, bremen, about racism of
police and administration.
| 019 | 04.July_Fri |
| | Workgroup: | (cross the border) No one is illegal |
What : multimedia
When : @13:00 - 14:30
Where: orangerie
for stowaways coming to germany harbours the
chance to stay in germany and ask for asylum
is nearly impossible. the slide show, the video
and the postcards are about their long way
through the sea and the bureaucracy but also
their wishes and thoughts
What : multimedia
When : @16:00 - 17:30
Where: orangerie
for stowaways coming to germany harbours the
chance to stay in germany and ask for asylum
is nearly impossible. the slide show, the video
and the postcards are about their long way
through the sea and the bureaucracy but also
their wishes and thoughts
| 020 | 05.July_Sat |
| | Workgroup: | (cross the border) No one is illegal |
sorry for no diary entry yesterday. we got several phonecalls of people worrying about us. the line to the provider was down. so, today is radio day: after more than 24 hours offline we started working with real radio: since 2 a.m. we have a cellular phone conference with the people in paris, demonstrating in the streets for "papers for all" and global regularization of all sans-papiers. we receive the sound from paris and broadcast it to the crowd of art-hooligans visiting us in the orangerie. simultaneously a video-loop with pictures from the actions of the last 12 months is shown on three monitors and the beamer. in a few minutes a car with a soundsystem starts driving through cassel. we make a special program with music, and informations about our campaign no one is illegal today in the morning our friends from paris went back. after more than half a year e-mail contact we actually met for the first time. it was wonderful. it´s past 7 pm now and i´m back with an update of today´s events and a glass of wine: in spite of occasional showers we made our sound tour through cassel (see above). we drove through the whole of the city centre, and now and again, the van stopped and we got off to distribute leaflets of the appeal "noone is illegal". we documented the whole tour on video.of course we got all sorts of reactions from people, from approval and interest to abuse by rightwing people and frustrated down and outs. Finally the rain put an early end to our promotional tour and we took refuge at the street fest of the "cassel action refuge", and had some strawberry cake and coffee before returning to the orangerie. and now some information on an aspect of the workspace that so far has been totally neglected in the writing of the diary, mainly due to a heavy workload and very late working hours: video nonstop. the munich delegation has been working on a videoclip for the workspace since the beginning of our project in the orangerie. this video, a kind of "no one is illegal" - trailer, is screened as a loop. i.e. continuously, in the workspace during open hours, if nothing else is going on. what´s important is that this video is always work in progress: the film people are constantly extending it with new footage, that might have just been filmed during the day (footage of ongoing events etc.) or come from any other relevant sources. as soon as we have a new version, it replaces the old loop. at the moment it´s about 13 minutes long. and very successful.
What : nationwide demonstration
When : @14:00 - 18:00
Where: Paris
More : de Nation a Republique
For
- Global Regularisation of all Sans-Papiers
- Stop of the deportations
- Amnesty of the Sans-Papiers
- Return of all deported persons
- Abrogation of all anti-migrant laws
| 021 | 06.July_Sun |
| | Workgroup: | (cross the border) No one is illegal |
after an allnight cu see me conference with the sans-papiers in paris we had some hours sleep. the people in paris went on partying into the morning - cause of one year of struggle. more than 30 artists and bands were participating in the open air. a data beamer projected our cu see me conference to several hundred persons at espace austerlitz. we met on a public conference of a reflector site in marseille and it was great to see how the chatting of the cu see me freaks was overlapped by the selfpresentation of many different sans papiers and our discussions.
now we have permanent video screening of the video tape "how to come through". last year in the end of september in frankfurt about 200 persons were arrested by heavily armed police forces. only because of watching this film. it is the screen adaption of an attack against the data net of frankfurt airport, in order to protest against expulsions and deportations of refugees. german prosecuters claimed an alleged support of an terrorist organisation, which should exist only by participating at the first screening. as it seems and the radikal case shows also, they are so afraid of a new generation of high-tech terrorists, that they involuntarily look for any chance to make a fool of themselves.
What : video screening
When : @15:00 - 16:00
Where: orangerie
how to come through
screen adaption of an attack against the data net
of frankfurt airport in order to protest against expulsions
D/1996/43 min.
(tape was temporarily seized by german prosecuters)
| 022 | 07.July_Mon |
| | Workgroup: | (cross the border) No one is illegal |
well, today is our last day here, which is very sad. "we" is just the remaining core group since a number of people had to leave in the last few days. those goodbyes were full of tears, and so will be ours. the videoloop is finished and we can finally just sit back and enjoy watching it, but its hard to get used to the idea that we are not going to work on it any more.
10 days of hard work, sometimes 15 or 16 hours a day, lots of unexpected actions, because we didn't really prepare anything. now we start to realize, what we have set off: it is really a proper campaign, which focusses lots of concrete and direct actions, and which will be coordinated from now on mainly by internet communication.
we keep getting lots of positive response to our campaign, heaps of faxes, masses of supporters' e-mails and phonecalls from all sorts of organisations, ranging from kindergartens and the critical policemen to members of the national and the federal parliaments. we are very surprised and of course very pleased. fortunately the whole project isn´t really over yet, it is just starting. groups from all over germany are beginning the campaign in their local context, and at the end of September there will be the next summit of anti-racist groups also in cassel.
now the room is empty, the thousands of daily guests are gone, and we are sitting on the terrace of the orangerie and we are waiting for you.
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