Disturbing news from France. Some of you already heard, but today's nazis, the Front National, have no qualms about making life difficult for alternative artists - just months after the attacks on Charlie Hebdo. Case in point is an exhibition of Stu Mead and Richard Scheibner at Le Dernier Cri's headquarters in Marseilles.
The ugly political strategy of slander, false accusations about something unseen (the show was already over when protests were raised), we have seen it all before. You can support Le Dernier Cri by signing this petition. Say no to censorship.
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Shame on us
its good example of how FN is working, relaying hunger from stupids peoples, saying how legitimate they are in their protest despite absurdity of it
we are under religious anathema... I was in north of France this week end, there i saw these cities for workers, all made like prison, with a total control of use and moral (by obligation of going to church and so on) and no possibility to escape... I felt hungry and sad because of this and how bad they did consider peoples... and now they don't need them anymore, so they are "free" but useless, they don't even know langage and writing - but still they are used by archaic political leaders...
injustice & hatred found deep roots in our culture... we are powerless and i am sad about it - more than ever i want to work for them and not for arrogant powerful peoples
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Well, the rally proved to be tiny, didn't it?
Your upcoming elections might be a different matter however... Europe seems to be keen on destroying its own culture before the Islamoid hooligans from Daesh do it. (That must be a comforting thought for some, apparently)
yes it was, a few royalists from action française... on political view it's a bit bigger, but they don't have so much direct power, DC is not related to grants...
I think nationalist/integrist just want art to stay in the field of spirituality/craftship excellence so they try to attach it to the ground, the logic is "we give you money/keep you in our society so you have to serve us" - after all popular culture is not a long story in Art History! No one accept art as a free move, see how they describe prehistoric ones, there's no other way than spirituality, no ones will say "hey they just did this for fun!"
so yes we need to fight for this acceptance, as we fight for all social progress from XXth century
I agree, except on popular culture not being old. Rather, not much has been preserved apart from the odd Roman era graffiti and medieval obscene clothing pins. But you knew that, of course. ;-)
yes of course =) i meant "dominant in our culture as a proper way of expression" and not only a marginal activity
I’m in an art festival in the south of France with Margaux and Eric. Somebody told us that Pakito was threatened with death.
It could turn ugly.
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