Description of Incident: A show which included the 2 pieces was hung in the public gallery area at EROS Data Center on 1/4/03. On 1/7/03, the chief of EROS told my husband, who works at EROS, to take the 2 pieces down as they were "inappropriate". My husband told the chief that this constituted censorship. The chief said that he was checking with other government offices to see what exhibit "policies" they had in place and would get back to him. In the meantime, my husband took the 2 pieces down. He called me the same day to tell me what happened. I sent a letter of protest to the chief on 1/9/03 asking that the pieces be rehung. I sent copies of the letter to the local newspaper. The chief received my letter 1/10/03 and told my husband he would get back to me in a few days - early the following week. Since I didn't hear anything by the following Wednesday(1/15/03), I wrote to the NCAC and asked for help. Svetlana Mintcheva called the chief of EROS and spoke with him.

Results of Incident: The two sculptures were never allowed back into the exhibit which ended on 1/31/03. On 2/1/03, the local newspaper ran the story with a picture of the "Pregnant Man" sculpture on the front page and the "Creation Theory" sculpture on an inside page. The chief of EROS never got back to me.

Construite aussi à partir d'éléments autobiographiques cette fable interactive dans laquelle vous naviguerez au gré des documents écrits, sonores, photographiques et vidéos, vous installe tour à tour dans e rôle de complice, ce témoin, de voyeur de la formation d'un couple, de sa vie et juge de sa désunion. Les projets s'élaborent, les enfants naissent, l'amour disparaît, le couple se défait. Les histoires d'amour finissent mal en général. Celle-ci se termine dans la démesure des petits vertueux, les mensonges des uns, les bassesses des autres, les juges insignifiants et les verdicts péremptoires.Mais cette histoire n'est pas objective, il s'agit seulement du point de vue du narrateur. Sa vision unilatérale de l'histoire nous conduit au travers d'éléments réels et/ou imaginaires à suivre avec certaines ambiguités le regard qu'il porte à son (ses) histoire(s).L'ambiguïté du narrateur qui semble vouloir résoudre les crises de sa vie au travers de l'histoire qu'il médiatise, se donnant le rôle du naïf, de la victime, et du sage, opposé à la bassesse, la méchanceté et la bêtise. Cherchant au travers de l'évocation de son (ses) histoire (s) à réévaluer son passé, remanier les structures de sa vie, et à résoudre ses contradictions internes pour mieux promouvoir les changements dans sa relation à lui-même et au monde extérieur. La réflexion d'un homme de quarante ans sur la vie. Avec les interrogations sur le temps, passé présent et futur télescopés, sur la mort qui s'approche au travers de la perte des siens ; l'abandon de l'enfance pour une attitude plus pratique, plus réaliste, plus émotionnelle de la vie ; la modification du style de vie, le couple éclate, les enfants grandissent. Tout concourt au dépassement des conflits, entre la jeunesse et la vieillesse, entre le désir de créer et la tentation du repos, réconcilier en soi les composantes masculines et féminines, harmoniser les pulsions agressives et fusionnelles, entre compétition - maîtrise du monde extérieur et développement de la vie intérieure. Le parcours jalonné de réflexions sur des constituants de la vertu de la Politesse qui n'en est pas encore une à l'Amour qui n'en est déjà plus une.Notre propre ambiguïté. Celle du regardeur qui se laisse porter au gré de l'interactivité et qui projette sa propre histoire au travers de celle de l'autre. Ou celle du voyeur qui fouille les documents laissés à sa portée, éléments de procédure, enquête sociale, expertise psychologique, jugements, CV détaillé et illustré de l'auteur, lettres, photographies, messages téléphoniques, films…. Prendrons-nous le temps d'analyser les écrits des uns et des autres qu'allons-nous chercher, rechercher ? Va-t-on prendre parti ?Mais plus encore, dans l'esprit de l'auteur, après la déstructuration, ce multimédia est au service de sa restructuration et de son équilibre. Nous ne sommes pas loin de la psychothérapie, seulement ici les réponses apportées sont différentes ; ni prostration, ni agressivité, ni fuite, mais de la créativité. Trouver aux problèmes posés des réponses encore inexistantes. Le créatif est un pessimiste actif, convaincu que rien n'est acquis à l'homme, ni sa force, ni sa faiblesse, ni son cœur. C'est celui qui, en toutes circonstances, même dramatiques, est capable de percevoir les points sur lesquels il pourra appuyer les leviers adéquats pour inverser ou au moins infléchir l'évolution probablement négative de la situation. Du moins semble-t-il le croire encore.

TurbulencesVidéo n°11 Spécial Vidéoformes 1996

Tout le monde peut faire un CD-Rom. Ce n’est pas plus difficile que d’écrire un roman ou ses mémoires. Au dernier festival d’art vidéo de Clermont-Ferrand, en avril 96, on a pu prendre connaissance, par ordinateur interposé, d’une "histoire" intitulée le Démariage. Un nommé Bruno Mrozinski y narrait ses déboires matrimoniaux, en particulier les heurts de son divorce. Ce n’était pas une fiction ; l’auteur, un photographe ayant une certaine réputation dans la capitale de l’Auvergne, livrait en vrac toutes les traces d’une partie de sa vie. Lettres, documents officiels, acte de mariage, convocation en conciliation, expertise psychologique, jugements, etc.), coupures de presse (concernant la carrière de l’artiste photographe), et surtout photos. Photos de la personne aimée puis haïe, photos des enfants nés de leur union, photos de nombreux modèles nus que l’auteur employait pour ses prises de vues professionnelles, photos des lieux habités, photos des amis, des parents. Et tout ça très sonore. Interviews des uns et des autres, coups de téléphone enregistrés, vieilles cassettes de chansons enfantines...

CD-Romsamizdat.

Le CD-Rom comme vengeance ! Ou comme complainte, si l’on veut. Un homme blessé se défend. Un artiste plaide non coupable (la question de ses rapports aux modèles nus étant au cœur de la dispute). Un accusé condamné invite le tout venant à rejuger son procès, pièces ouvertes. Les entrées du menu du CD sont sans équivoque : les écrits - l’album de famille - les archives juridiques - les expos. L’auteur veut le lecteur "témoin et complice, voyeur et juge de la formation d’un couple et de sa désunion". L’ennui c’est qu’un couple c’est par définition deux personnes et que "l’autre" a toujours la possibilité légale de résister à la publicité de sa "vie privée". L’ex-épouse porta plainte et un jugement interdit l’exposition de ce dossier autobiographique. Sans aller jusqu’à ordonner sa destruction. Le CD existe toujours. Son auteur peut toujours essayer de le montrer chez lui, ou en faire circuler des copies pirates, un tirage limité auto-édité. Le CD-Romsamizdat n’est pas une impossibilité.

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JEAN-PAUL FARGIER / Complètement compacts (extrait) / Art press 219 / décembre 96

Description of Incident: pendant l'exposition du festival VIDEOFORMES 96, en avril, l'oeuvre est suspendue puis interdite à la diffusion publique.

Results of Incident: Condamnons M. MROZINSKI à payer à chacun des demandeurs la somme de 1 F à titre de dommages-intérêts

Rejetons les demandes en payement formées contre M. SOUCHEYRE.

Condamnons M. Bruno MROZINSKI à payer à Madame SABATIER la somme de 1.500 F en application de l'article 700 du Nouveau Code de Procédure Civile et aux époux SABATIER-JIJVY la somme de 1.500 F sur le même fondement.

Condamnons M. Bruno MROZINSKI aux dépens.

Le greffier Le Président du Tribun

Description of Incident: Censorship of foreign news sites, the creation of special Internet police, and actions to shut down Internet sites posting information on corruption or articles critical of government. Internet cafes are required to register and inform the police about their customers. The Ministry of State Security has installed tracking devices on Internet service providers to monitor individual email accounts. And bulletin boards critical of the government have been shut down. Huang Qi, in Chengdu, Sichuan province, was detained for setting up China's first domestic human rights web siteYang Zili, another young computer specialist, was detained in Beijing by state security officials; his present whereabouts and legal status are unknown.

Results of Incident: No company was willing to intervene in Huang Qi's case, even privately, with Chinese officials. Human rights watch also asked the World Bank to intervene, since the Bank says it is interested in promoting more openness in China through free exchange of information via the Internet. When Huang Qi went on trial in February, the American consulate in Chengdu and the European Union tried to send diplomatic observers to the trial, but they were turned away. The trial was suddenly adjourned when Huang Qi was taken ill. It has yet to resume.

Description of Incident: El Colectivo de arte 90 invita al artista a su mercado anual de arte contemporaneo tras ver el tipo de trabajos del mismo. 24 horas antes de la inauguración se le comunica al artista que sus obras no serán expuestas, lo cual se debio a simples motivos de decoro y posibles favoritismos con el ayuntamiento de la ciudad.

Results of Incident: El artista perdió su tiempo e ilusiones y tuvo que pasar a recojer sus obras.

Description of Incident: The Egyptian authorities forced Jean Michel Jarre to change his track called "Revolutions" because the word revolution is a banned word in egypt. Jean Michel Jarre performed the millenium concert at the great pyramids of Gizah on 31st december 1999.

Results of Incident: Jean michel jarre slightly changed his track to "Evolution" instead of "revolution" during the concert, but probably pronounced "Revolution" once despite of the warning he received.

Description of Incident: The editor, Abdul Ghafoor Iteqad, of the weekly Farda, or Tomorrow, was arrested by two men from the prosecutor's office, who told him that the cartoon, drawn on his instructions, had insulted the president.

Results of Incident: The order to arrest him came from the man considered by many people here to be the most powerful in the country — not the president, but the defense minister and vice president, Marshal Muhammad Fahim. Mr. Karzai was out of the country at the time, and Marshal Fahim was in charge. The president returned two days later, laughed at the cartoon and immediately ordered the editor's release.

This Incident is closely related to the person of Juergen Buessow, Chief of the district government of Duesseldorf county. As he said in TV interviews and other reports, he considers the blocking a "great mission."

Results of Incident: A court in Arnsberg/NRW/Germany ruled on December, 13. 2002, for the first time in Germany, to ban Nazi-Websites. The administrative tribunal followed the opinion of the district government as described above. Another administrative tribunal (Minden/NRW/Germany) rejected the bannings. Now the case will go to a higher authority. The Arnsberg court sets a precedent.

Buessow and his administration tried to cover the aims behind a group of specialists at the university of Dortmund/NRW/Germany. Those where companies creating internet filters. The mission was to build a filter system for providers. But the commission came to the conclusion that it is impossible to program such a software without limitting personal rights.

A. Müller-Maguhn (ICANN, Chaos Computer Club) judged the idea as senseless activism. Buessow is striking against the infrastructure of the net in banning sites via filters, when he should rather fight against the underlying political problems: nazis, for e.g.

Description of Incident: RIGOR MORTIS OF THE SOCIAL BODY

Beware! do not touch the exquisite corpse, don't ever use the word "Porn", to not dare to say the unspoken.

The work of the australian artist Francesca da Rimini has been censored in Mechelen, Belgium as part of the "Porn ar(t)ound the world" festival organized by KCnona www.nona.be.

"Dollspace" www.thing.net/~dollyoko, is a web site wich collects the tracks of Dollyoko, the ghost of all the children that were drown into the Pond of the Death Girls, in China, only because they were born female. The artist is haunted by this ghost and tells all her possible lifes, her sexual desires and obsessions to which a body was denied. Dollyoko says: "All history is pornografy" and "History is written by men who fuck their daughters"

Francesca Da Rimini, artist and writers, uses as raw material for her writings the experience that she have had in virtual realm in textual mode as LambdaMoo. In this worlds she have had consensual sexual experinces as a child.

Her work togheter with others (see list at the bottom) has been seized here in Mechelen because of paedophily.

The artist say: "I think that is important to move the attention out of my work and trying instead to understand which are the real causes of children abuse that usually happens inside the families"

Libidot, curator of the exibition and censored artist says "I wonder why we are still unable to distinguish what is criticism, art and commentary from what is real abuse"

Part of the festival was also the show of the famous post porn actress Annie Sprinkle which presented a performance about the History of porn called "Herstory of Porn". Ricky Suade, form america, is running a campaign against circumcision as male genital mutilation, Yoshie Suzuki from japan, runs around the world giving french kisses to as many people as possible, Shu Lea Cheang director of the sci-fi porn Movie I.K.U.

Above this sad episod o censoriship the Festival is going very well and is welcome by the largest part of the people of Mechelen. It is a moment of collective sharing and exploration, the evening called "Bring your own porn" was in fact a great success highlighted by irony.

Above the industry of the entertainment there is still people who know how to enjoy shivers of sharing and living flesh.

The censored works are:

Alex Mc Quilkin Fucked 1999-2000, DVD

Yoshie Suzuki and Adam Zaretsky SQUART 2000, VIDEO

ZOOT e GENANT Meat Sexu Tacot &1996, mixed media video installation

FRANCESCA DA RIMINI Dollspace 2000, website

KATRIEN JACOBS Sexy Flowers 2001, mixed media

ANNIE SPRINKLE The sluts & goddesses Video Workshop: or how to be a sex Goddesses in 101 easy steps

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Results of Incident: Artworks still confiscated by State Authorities and undergoing investigation

Description of Incident: government didnt like it

Results of Incident: book was banned in colombia and eventually allowed to be sold. He won a Nobel Prize for this book.

Description of Incident: The New York based touring company doing this PULITZER PRIZE WINNING PLAY was engaged by a Charlotte theatre group to perform this play. The touring company arrived and was ready to performe the play which had previously been advertized in an area covering three states. Religious fundamentalists protested this and got Senator Jesse Helms involved to pressure the Auditorium to cancel the play . Some of the protesters were members of the American Family Association, Bob Jones University and One Million Moms (and Dads) which is part of the American Family Association.

Results of Incident: The play was canceled and has never been performed in Western North Carolina or South Carolina since and many theatrical producers will not take on this project in the Carolinas because of the problems which occured in Charlotte when asked by this reporter.

Description of Incident: The College President and Board fired a faculty member who presented this play with his students. Play has been closed down at many High Schools by religious groups who have protested the play including the Rev. Phelps, of Topeka Kansas who is a charecter in the play as the preacher who protested Matthew's funeral with his 'God HATES FAGS' groups and in doing so has been invited to leave and not visit many communities in the United States and Canada. Many people objected because the play was about a gay man and they never even bothered to see if there was anything pornographic,etc. about it but objected on hearsay.

Results of Incident: The Florida Community College was threatened with a major lawsuit and backed down and the terminated drama coach reinstated. The play was allowed to be presented. In some High Schools; faculty members were terminated and the play not permitted to be performed. When such incidents occured; there was an International protest and in some cases the play was allowed to be presented and in others it was not. Rev. Phelps and his groups have been arrested in some cases for their protests. Amazingly, the rights to perform this play , while on Broadway, in Greenville, S.C. went off without incidence. Greenville is the home of Bob Jones University known for it's bigotry and religious fundamentalism.

Description of Incident: racial/ethics

Results of Incident: new york times sued

Description of Incident: not known

Results of Incident: not known