Project name: Assange Exhibition 1
Assange in der Toten Stadt
April 13, 2021
ABOUT A ring of Schiele’s “dead cities” paintings encloses a court illustration of Assange standing trial. A red circle is present, signifying a recording is in process. AIDAN CLARK BIOGRAPHY Aidan Clark is a student and collagist based in Ontario, Canada.
RAPPORTEURS & SPOTTERS
April 13, 2021
ABOUT Rapporteurs ( Julian Assange and Jürgen Todenhöfer ), mixed media, 2020. Spotters (Julian Assange, Katharine Gun, Edward Snowden, Stanislaw Petrow, Gabriele Krone-Schmalz, Chelsea Manning), mixed media, 2020. SILVIA ZSCHOCKELT BIOGRAPHY After years of working as a designer in fashion and carpet-design, then later as an art-teacher, I have been working as a freelance artist for…
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FREE ASSANGE
April 13, 2021
TAMAR GETTER BIOGRAPHY Tamar Getter (1953) studied art 1970 – 72, and literature at Tel Aviv University between 1975 – 79. Former faculty member and senior lecturer at Bezalel Art Academy, Jerusalem, and the Department of Architecture at the Tel Aviv University. Getter, prominent in the groundbreaking generation of the 1970s, has been exhibiting continuously since 1973. First…
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DESPITE ALL
April 13, 2021
A new consciousness is arriving on this planet Despite what you see in the streets Or in print Despite the sorrow Despite the destruction and death in unjust wars Despite the politicians’ quibbling Or the frivolity on your TV screen Despite the greed, the fraud, the lies Despite and inspire of these A change is…
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‘’Living in democracy’’, for Julian Assange
April 13, 2021
“We live in Democracy” The common lie of a political aristocracy “Vote for a better future!” they say So as happy and ignorant you will remain “America respected around the wolrd again!” Execution, jail for the objectors then “Kids dead in Iraq” children cried “Shame on terrorist J.A.!” Big Brother replied Propaganda and war are…
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DREAMING OF HEAVEN
April 13, 2021
ABOUT The song is personally meaningful because it was written during an episode of untreated chronic depression. By some strange magic, the song ended up like Imagine, being a Lennonesque piano ballad. The line “How you talk bout our calamities is sure as hell full of fallacies” inspired me to dedicate the song to Assange….
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April 13, 2021
GIANLUCA COSTANTINI BIOGRAPHY Gianluca Costantini is an activist and artist who for years fought his battles through his drawing. Accused of terrorism by the Turkish government, he angered many French readers for a short comic about Charlie Hebdo‘s terrorist story. He actively collaborates with ActionAid, Amnesty, Emergency, ARCI and Oxfam organizations. His drawings mapped the story of the HRW Film Festival in London, the FIFDH Human…
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ABEL
April 13, 2021
ABOUT Obscure eternal Liedermacher-New Age from “Peripherie”. Made by multi-instrumentalist Peter Bähr (Twelve-String Guitar, Alto Recorder, Kalimba, Electric Piano, Spinet) and band.
Art. 19
April 13, 2021
ABOUT Art. 19 (2010-2014) is part of the series “articular DUDH”, a series of actions raised as a rereading of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. In view of the disuse of these rights, it proposes a critical reading and a reflection on the non-compliance with this statement and the International Covenants on Human Rights…
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Homage To All The Fallen Horses In The Wars Of Men
April 13, 2021
ABOUT I did this while living in the quarries of marble on mt Altissimo (where Michelangelo found his marble for the Pieta of San Pietro), it is as much wild goat as archaic horse. Feeling light from the influence of experiencing clouds coming and going, being in and out, continuously changing light and even temperature,…
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THE ARREST OF ASSANGE
April 13, 2021
ABOUT This illustration is based on “The Arrest of Christ” by Ressendi, it calls for the freedom of Julian Assange. It shows the similarities between his arrest by the British and American governements and the taking of Christ by the Romans. DANNY BILBAO BIOGRAPHY I’m Danny Bilbao, born in Quito, Ecuador (ashamed of Lenin…
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April 13, 2021
ABOUT Here are some photos I’ve recently took in the west of Germany, of people raising their voices to support Julian Assange. JOÃO ROMEIRO HERMETO BIOGRAPHY João Romeiro Hermeto originally comes from São Paulo, Brazil, where he studied engineering and then economics at the Universidade de São Paulo (USP). During the upheavals of the…
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BLUES FOR THE UNSEEN
April 13, 2021
ABOUT I made this piece after watching John Pilger’s film “The War You Don’t See”. TIM HODGKINSON BIOGRAPHY I’m mainly a composer and improvising musician, concentrating on clarinets and lap-steel guitar. My most recent works include Piano Concerto for Orchestre Symphonique de Liège, and Landscape Theory of Mind for solo violin at Borealis Festival in Norway. I’ve also…
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WE ARE WITH YOU
April 13, 2021
ABOUT I submit here just a few varied shots taken from the many protests I’ve attended for Julian Assange. I and we, are supporters that will not let the flame be winded by the mighty storm. The images are extracts taken from days we have gathered to mark and make heard the injustice. NATHALIE AVESTA JABBER…
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FEELING DUSTY
April 13, 2021
ABOUT This piece tries to express the deadening experience of indefinite incarceration, the loss of definition and personality, the claustrophobia, the Kafkaesque hopelessness of being separated from the world of light and agency which always seems to be going on somewhere else, just out of reach. TOR LARSEN BIOGRAPHY Tor worked for some years in the film industry in a…
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THE JAILRNALIST
April 13, 2021
ABOUT In this piece I wanted to represent the only reason why Assange is in jail, that is to prevent him from telling the truth. PAOLO BIANCHINI BIOGRAPHY I am Italian and am a 54 years old digital artist and game developer. I have a political satire blog on hive blockchain https://hive.blog/@pab.ink
YOU KNOW
April 13, 2021
You Know in this country a man who is in prison for telling the truth has had to endure solitary confinement because they know they know the professional torturers that if you want t o destroy a person’s mind you deprive…
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LIBERASSANGE – SET ASSANGE FREE
April 13, 2021
ABOUT LIBERASSANGE – SET ASSANGE FREE DHYANO ANGIUS BIOGRAPHY I’m DiEM25 Member since 2017. I was part of the UK National Collective and I am now still collaborating with the Creative Comms and the translation team. I’m a Poet Performer and Media Artist.
WE ARE MILLIONS
April 13, 2021
ABOUT The Courage Foundation, supported by DiEM25, has launched #WeAreMillions, a massive photo campaign to demonstrate global support for WikiLeaks publisher Julian Assange as he fights extradition to the United States, where he would face unprecedented prosecution. Journalists and whistleblowers are in jail or on trial, and their ability to hold governments accountable is at…
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April 13, 2021
ABOUT I used lines from Julian’s last interview: “As someone who loves to document how human civilization actually works, we’re in constant warfare with those people who are trying to distort the understanding of how human beings actually behave” This reflects perfectly the significance of Julian’s work and also Diem25. The general public is subjected…
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AN IDENTITY DELUDED INTO ITS OWN EXISTENCE BECAUSE OF TRUTH
April 13, 2021
ABOUT An identity deluded into its own existence because of the truth. The visual aspect of the video is taken from the WikiLeaks video ”Collateral Murder”. The raw material for the acoustic part of this work is interviews taken from people who regularly come to Julian Assange’s vigil in Berlin. The respective heartbeats of the interviewee…
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MRS INNES HANGS HER SHEETS OUT IN THE FROST TO WHITEN
April 13, 2021
ABOUT I am exhibiting an image of a painting called ‘Mrs. Innes hangs her sheets out in the frost to whiten’. I chose this image because of the lonely aspect as a metaphor of ‘hanging someone out to dry’ It is subtle, but I think the idea can relate to the case of Assange. BARBARA…
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Assange Power
April 13, 2021
MILTOS MANETAS BIOGRAPHY Miltos Manetas is a Relational Aesthetic artist painting the internet. These days he is depicting the strength of Julian Assange. #AssangePower