Responding to Crisis ...

[Otto]

1. My point was the America-centric pov expressed in that article.
2. I don't know any major artist who has focussed on the consequences of
"our"  UN-sanctions against Iraq.
3. If the number (18 million) is correct the outcry wasn't very loud . . .

Otto

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From: Terrance <lycidas2 at earthlink.net>
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Sent: Monday, March 04, 2002 1:59 AM
Subject: Re: Responding to Crisis ...


>
>
> Otto wrote:
> >
> > I think it's indeed silly because the critic hasn't got to say anything
on
> > the silence of the artists on the dead Iraqui children or the 18 million
> > Aids-deaths in Africa.
> >
> > Otto
>
> Maybe that's because artists have not been silent about these deaths
> either. Although I think the comparison you make here is just as silly,
> it is also false. Artists, particularly,  NYC artists, have not been
> silent about AIDS deaths in Africa or anyplace else and they have not
> been silent about the deaths of people in Iraq, either from the War with
> Iran, with the USA, or the from UN or USA trade policies. I imagine this
> is also true of in major art communities in Europe and Asia.
> The entire argument is nonsense. Artists were very busy immediately
> after the September 11th massacre. They were not silent at all. There
> were some attempts not to take advantage of the situation to promote,
> but artists, from local poets and musicians to international pop stars
> responded.