http://voices4democracy.org/wordpress Just another WordPress weblog Sun, 21 Jun 2009 15:24:54 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en [caption id="attachment_374" align="aligncenter" width="500" caption="Main Street Meltdown installation mockup"][/caption] On October 29, 2008, the 79th anniversary of Black Tuesday, the stock market crash that caused the Great Depression in 1929, artists Ligorano/Reese will meltdown the “Economy.” In a new, time-based event, called Main Street Meltdown the artists will install the word ... http://voices4democracy.org/wordpress/?p=357 This is what Lynn Sures wrote us in an email about seeing the videos - "Watching time-lapse video of the melting in Denver,  how amazing.  First thing that chilled me was when the M fell, leaving DEOCRACY (I was thinking Deo as God and thoughts fell to Palin's and Bush's views) ... http://voices4democracy.org/wordpress/?p=350 From September 13th to October 26, we're in a show called Close Encounters: Facing the Future at the American University Museum in the Katzen Art Center in Washington, DC. Provisions Library, which commissioned us to do The State of Things in the convention cities, organized this exhibit. Don Russell and Niels ... http://voices4democracy.org/wordpress/?p=317 Since St Paul, we've been in for quite a ride. The Obama and McCain campaigns are locked into a fight for the bitter end. McCain is a politician waging a guerilla war against Obama. It's almost as if - this is what he internalized from his years at the Hanoi Hilton. ... http://voices4democracy.org/wordpress/?p=313 Riffing off Naomi Klein's book Disaster Capitalism - the conclusion of the conventions highlights the fact that we've entered a new era - the age of Disaster Politics. Dissent is quashed because protests and protesters may harbor terrorists; when in fact police have infiltrated these same protest groups and share intelligence ... http://voices4democracy.org/wordpress/?p=284 So, St Paul. The ice sculptors always say, "Oh, with the heat, the sun, the humidity, it'll take 8-10 hours..." Well, they're almost never right - NYC: 26 hours; Denver: 22 hours. As we were setting up in St Paul, a guy came by and said, "Six and a half hours." He ... http://voices4democracy.org/wordpress/?p=270 Welcome to St Paul Here, at the headwaters of the mighty Mississippi - we don't suppose that the Republicans suspect their convention opening tomorrow on Labor Day, to be the psychic maelstrom behind the class 5 hurricane heading for New Orleans. Could it be that the amalgam of delegates, politicians and lobbyists ... http://voices4democracy.org/wordpress/?p=246 Laura Flanders invited us to be part of her show about Art-ivism while we were in Denver. http://voices4democracy.org/wordpress/?p=216 The final letter cracked at 9:11 AM, 19 hours after it was unveiled. Of the nine letters making up the word "Democracy," at least half met their demise at the hands of bystanders, crashing to the ground after being swatted or pushed from their base; the rest disappeared due to the weather. Does this ... http://voices4democracy.org/wordpress/?p=202 Democracy lasted the night - visited by New York state delegates to the convention. Numerous party goers, posing next to its letters; touching it, kissing it. Clearly cherished and adulated. http://voices4democracy.org/wordpress/?p=199