Pianeta di Amore Planet of Love Planeta lásky 愛的行星 Planeet van Liefde Planet of Love Планета влюбленности Planeta del amor Planet of Love 愛の惑星Planet der Liebe Planète de l'amour Planet of Love
Bill Fisher
For public distribution--
Dear Friend, Stranger, Enemy, Lost Love,
"Planet of Love" invites your participation in a simple event celebrating
forgiveness, reciprocity, collaboration, atonement (at-one-ment), and "con
spiré," a breathing together. If you have a moment, 15 minutes or three
hours during the following times, we'd love your love-hub:
Milledgeville, Georgia, USA: Between 12:00 AM-11:59 PM EST, February 10,
2010
Dublin, Ireland: Between 5:00 AM, February 10 and 4:59 AM GMT/UTC, February
11, 2010
Baghdad, Iraq: Between 8:00 AM, February 10 and 7:59 AM, February 11, 2010
Beijing, China: Between 1:00 PM, February 10 and 12:59 PM, February 11,
2010
Los Angeles, California, USA: Between 9:00 PM, February 9 and 8:59 PM PST,
February 10, 2010
Ciudad Juárez, Chihuahua, Mexico: Between 10:00 PM, February 9 and 9:59 PM
MST, February 10, 2010
Statement:
The following will occur at Georgia College & State University between 2:00
PM and 5:00 PM EST on February 10, 2010, in conjunction with the third
annual Symposium on Global Citizenship. We hope you will join us at some
point within the 24 hours of that location's day. The divide between
oppressor/oppressed, abuser/abused, powerful/powerless, predator/prey, and
directed/collateral will be symbolically transgressed through the act of a
physical embrace. While we will perform in the southern USA within the
following parameters, please feel free to participate in a similar public
performance, or engage someone in a private momentary embrace, or in any
version of the project that works for you. You will be sharing this act of
communion with people whose customs are unfamiliar, people who worship gods
other than yours, who dress, speak and appear in a way you may have no
experience with. In this way the differences that make it so easy to fear
and hate and ignore the humanity of now become irrelevant and subverted
through a shared act and a peaceful touch. Our goal is to know that
somewhere on this planet within these 24 hours, for at least an instant, two
people are not waging war.
Planet of Love--
A proposition: a group of four couples (or triples, quads) standing on the
four points of an intersection (avenue, street, waterway, gallery rooms,
rooftop, office cubicles, etc), locked in an embrace for an extended period.
The "lovers" may be strangers to one another, or have a previous
relationship of some kind (spouses, lovers, siblings, friends, enemies,
colleagues, co-workers, parents with children, etc).
The Georgia embrace will last as long as possible, with intermittent resting
when needed, for three hours or more before completely ceasing.
Participants will work in groups of four (couples or more) at the four
corners of a traveled and/or visible intersection, positioned at least 6
inches above ground level by standing on a platform, box, or some other mode
of elevation. Clothing/appearance among various groups may vary within the
group but can be considered as an element of the performance. Georgia
participants will be dressed in a uniform fashion specific to their location
and culture(s), in colors or costume appropriate to the performance as
decided upon by the group.
Data on violence, aggression and peace culled from the following sources
will be read aloud throughout the performance:
http://www.feminist.com/antiviolence/facts.html
http://www.cdc.gov/ViolencePrevention/youthviolence/index.html
http://aappolicy.aappublications.org/cgi/content/full/pediatrics;108/5/1222
http://www.splcenter.org/
http://www.thepeacealliance.org/
http://usliberals.about.com/od/homelandsecurit1/a/IraqNumbers.htm
http://www.opheliaproject.org/main/who_we_are.htm
and others...
Necessary permits or approvals by authorized agencies are recommended to
avoid interruption of the performances. Water and refreshments are
recommended as needed.
Documentation of your action is requested for public posting. Please send
photographs, video, drawings, etc. electronically to william...@gcsu.edu
or by post to Planet of Love, Dept. of Art, CBX 094, GCSU, Milledgeville,
GA, USA 31061.
All imagery will be posted to http://billfisher.dreamhost.com/nohate.html
Currently preparing for the event are USA east and west coast Gangs of Four,
groups in Australia, Indonesia, the Czech Republic, South Africa, Tokyo and
Mexico. We hope you'll join us during these 24 hours, or whenever you have
the opportunity to disengage from war.
For more information and/or to express your interest in participating,
please write to william...@gcsu.edu
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