An open letter from Alain Badiou to Jean-Luc Nancy
Alain Badiou responds to Jean-Luc Nancy's Libération article “What the Arab peoples signify to us”
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'Onderwijs s een recht' (Education is a right) demonstration, was organized by students for students. 25th of March was dated as the day of demonstration due to the upcoming debate at the parliament about the education cuts. Few days later we were confronted with similar demonstration dated on 29th of march. The organizers of the later protest are supported by opposition political parties and students unions who didn't want to be associated with us at all, maybe due to our request of 'no hijack' and 'no political propaganda'!
'Onderwijs is een recht' was in short not too popular but grassroots, low budget, very differently organized on the locations and the routes it marched; its noisy and expressive music by experimental musicians and above all an extremely photogenic protest!
Banner drop for "Onderwijs is een recht" (Education is a right)
25th March The Hague
At the Parliament Pond The Hague (NL) For the first time a banner has been hung there with no one arrested!
Banner drop at UvA (University of Amsterdam)
Every Friday at 4 pm Professor Protest group intervenes and occupies the Spuiplein (Amsterdam) for an action to save the education right!
'Study Fast' Friday 18th of March
'3000€ Bill' Friday 4th of March
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UvA (Amsterdam University) Occupation / bezet
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Thieu Besselink initiator of The learning Lab speech
Kwela Hermanns (Free Education Agent) speech
www.thelearninglab.nl
professorprotest.nl
Universitiet van Toekomst
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48hrs conference/participatory play on Aesthetics of Protest and what those aesthetics have in common with for example Coubert's realism, Russian avant-garde, communism ideologies and aesthetics changes in contemporary time of uprising global protests with reference to institutionalisation of critical and radical artistic practices.
Chtodelat.org
smartprojectspace.net
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For Jody Mcintyre (see his interrogation by BBC) and to Alfie Meadows
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The really open university, The antagonistic university? A conversation on cuts, conviviality and capitalism (Anna Feigenbaum, Jamie Heckert, Anja Kanngieser)
Critique, as Counter-Hegemonic Intervention(Chantal Mouffe)
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Nedeland Screeuwt Om Cultuur (Amsterdam) Netherlands Screams For Culture!! 20/11/10/Users/ehsanfardjadniya/Desktop/DSCN1077.JPG
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Com-plaints Ping-pong
"Zonder mijn en dijn zou de wereld een hemel zijn." Without mine and yours, the world would be a heaven. So the saying goes. Most of what we have and what we do however, makes us a group of individuals living side by side, rather than a ‘we’. We experience many of the same frustrations but what would the world be like if we shared those in dialogue with one another? Through his model of the Ping-pong Debate, the Crisis Manager, Ehsan Fardjadniya has taken his ping-pong table to a number of contexts of frustration. Whether it’s protests in the Hague over governmental funding cuts for the arts, or outside national election day after-parties, or in gemeente public squares – ping-pong enables a spontaneous, legally unrestrictable, means of encountering one another in public space and managing our crises through play. During the week of 1st-4th November ping-pong games will happen on a number of sites around Eindhoven and will conclude in an all-day, collective ping-pong session in the Van Abbemuseum. The artist welcomes everyone to bring their frustrations and crises to the table.
Netherland PING PONG SHOUTS for culture day One @ Van Abbemuseum? / Netherlands PING PONG Schreeuwt om cultuur
Tomorrow it's time for the program 'Gathering Gathering'! It includes an all-day ping pong tournament with Ehsan Fardjadniya, where people are invited to play out and share their frustrations and complaints on the ping-pong table. At 18.00, 19.00 and 20.00 hours there will be performances.
http://www.facebook.com/vanabbemuseum?ref=ts
ALL DAY PING PONG COMPLAINT
TUESDAY, WEDNESDAY ON STREETS OF EINDHOVEN
THURSDAY ALL DAY PING PONG COMPLAINT IN VAN ABBEMUSEUM
GATHERING GATHERING
a Collective Intervention with YOUR-Space
A Short teaser for PING PONG COMPLAINTS
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COMPLAINT BOX
Call 08008051 and Complain (Art Cuts if you like)
Free number and your complaint 'll be delivered to the Minister (OCW)
Dien Je Klacht in Tegen Kunst en Kultuur Kaalslag 08008051
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48 Hrs NOT-STOP PING PONG/DEBATE to protest against the art and cultural funding cuts starts on Friday Morning in The Hague Parliament.
Protest tegen kunst en kultuur bezuinigingen Malieveld Den haag
Crisis Manager Intervention Facebook Page
By this action, besides the protest against the art and culture cuts, we'll change the old-fashion, stereotypical image that some of the current politicians might have from the artist as indifferent, irresponsible, drunk and left hobbyist to sportive debater that invites them to debate with their representatives.
During the ping pong debate you 'll discuss with your opposite player/debater
-Should art be more privatized?Why?
-What is the function of art and culture and will its purpose change or be conditioned by private sponsors and how?
-Does creativity suppress by lack money?
-What is to be done next?
After your challenging match/debate you can write a sentence on the ping pong table and get ready for the next match!
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-48 hrs conference at ICA London about art and activism
'what struggle do we have in common?' (sep. 2010)?
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koninginnedag (Queens Day) 2010 Testing the national pride at the biggest Dutch domestic festivity
While testing the national pride in Holland we came across many undiscovered talents!
See more videos on my youtube channel!
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Out contribution to Election day in The Hague:
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Email any sort of crisis, from personal to social and political, financial and economical, to crisiscenter80@gmail.com and we find the best solution for you (for very very cheap price)!
Come and Visit Us at the 'Crisis Center' or email us at: Crisismanager80@gmail.com
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Upcoming project: Crisis Center in The Hague.
Opening: 25th, 26th, 27th and 28th at Stichting Centrum.
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Crisis Police: An Intervention and few interviews to response to sponsorship of Gemeente Museum The Hague by Shell.
Our questions here are: "if Museum supposed to be a public space why would they be irresponsible about who they collaborate with?"
"Isn't art used here as medium for propaganda for a company like Shell?"
"Why such a lack of criticality and responsibility exist in our society?"
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What is it with capitalism?
by Charles Esche
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- Who Is Real? (Episode 1)
Intervention and performance that got in to a conflicts with children's believe!
-Episode II of "How Is Real?". A performance/intervention around the Christmas time in NL! In this event i was dressed as Santa with a lang chain! in this episode i went in to a church and took part of a classic ceremony!
The last Episode of three episode long performance, entitled: Traditionally Cured. In a shopping street in front of C&A!
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- The Public School residency at Komplot Brussels
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- Naomi Klein Issues Haiti Disaster Capitalism Alert: Stop Them Before They Shock Again
- Crisis Beleid (Crisis Management)
For more check here
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-Escape the Overcode - Brian Holmes (2006)
Escape the Overcode - Brian Holmes (2006)is a presentation by Brian Holmes on Cybernetics in the School of the Art Institute of Chicago
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This is the official website of Ehsan Fardjadniya, artist, curator and writer, graduated from Royal College of Art The Hague in 2006, Goldsmiths Collage graduate in 2008.