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[Anne Elizabeth Moore]

Greetings from Leipzig, friends!

A few quick notes:

• Revision Street: America  just continues to get more and more interesting by remote. (Check the recent comment from someone who calls himself a Studs fan but would really like to hear Wal*Mart's side of the story on the new store in Pullman, or listen to Leida Viilegas describing the difference between house, ghetto, and juke.)

• I wrote a new Truthout piece "Cambodian Authorities Don't Want You Asking: Who Killed Chea Vichea?" : "Six years after his death, the murdered union leader still agitates. On January 22, 2004, leader of the Free Trade Union of Workers of the Kingdom of Cambodia Chea Vichea was shot in the head and chest as he waited at a newsstand near Wat Langka in Phnom Penh. The bright celebrations of Chinese New Year were halted as garment factory workers, a constituency of over 300,000 people at the time (mostly young women), mourned the sudden loss of their most ardent advocate. Not long beforehand, Vichea had fought for and won a raise in minimum pay for garment workers. Approximately 20% of the country lives off these wages, and the union leader was widely revered. When police failed to make any progress after several days, people began to demand justice, and two men were promptly arrested, tried, and sentenced to 20 years in prison each for the murder. They were released again last year when evidence had mounted indicating their innocence." 

• And I'll have a show in Berlin in a few weeks. Check the announcement below—hopefully I'll see you then?

aem

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Surveil 

at The Center for Endless Progress, Berthelsdorferstr. 10, 12043 Berlin-Neukölln

August 19, 2010 Doors: 6 p Performances: 7 p

Opening August 19  at 6 p.m, Anne Elizabeth Moore and Elizabeth White will premier two new bodies of work under the title Surveil at the Center for Endless Progress in Berlin. The opening will feature performance projects from each artist. Surveil is the international debut of two projects created in residence in Leipzig, Knowledge and the Love of Mankind (2010) by Elizabeth White and The Selling of Socialism (2010) by Anne Elizabeth Moore.

 

Knowledge and the Love of Mankind is an installation of drawings accompanied by an on-site silhouette service. Based on illustrations by Johann Lavater, the drawings document different types of lines, curves, and features. On their own, these simple drawings lack meaning, however in their original context, each detail is significant, suggesting the code for reading inner character on outward physicality, with resulting social implications. During the opening of the exhibition, the artist will offer digital silhouette portraits for two euro each.

 

The Selling of Socialism (2010), a series of displayed drawings and texts, visually explores political rectitude, reclamation, and ownership through the aura of the American mythological reconstruction of the Berlin Wall. Over the past 20 years, a new system of symbols has emerged on the American landscape, clues to how capitalism infiltrates and subsumes discussions of its resistance. These are presented in ink on vellum alongside their true historical narratives.

 

At the opening, Moore will perform Offhand Teeth Slosh, a text culled from David Hasselhoff’s personal account of the fall of the Berlin Wall, an act for which he takes credit in his autobiography, Don’t Hassle the Hoff. Three elements of the text have been changed: the “Berlin Wall” has been replaced with “the Twin Towers,” the date “November 9, 1989” has been changed to “September 11, 2001,” And David Hasselhoff has been replaced with Michael Knight’s evil twin from his television program Knight Rider, Garthe Knight. The performance raises questions of how gleefully we celebrate the demise of political systems. This text is accompanied by an original score from Richard Fox.

 

The Center for Endless Progress is a new exhibition and project space aiming to work with emerging artists. The Center seeks to continually evolve and expand in conjunction with its community and offers an experience beyond just the visual realm. Surveil opens at 6; performances commence at 7.

 

CONTACT INFORMATION: 


Elizabeth White

0177-5223879

Eliz...@whitespaceprojects.com