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Date: Mon, 19 Jan 2004 18:51:29 -0500
Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Dear Limor, I'm a little confused. is the story written like this on the installation? for those of us who're not paying attention, what was the reaction of=20 the Israeli ambassador? At 9:33 PM +0200 1/19/04, Limor Shiponi, Interpersonal Arts wrote: >Hello to you all, close and far, > > > >It has been a long time since I have participated in global cyber=20 >storytelling discussions. I just don't have the time but I'm keeping=20 >track. Yet, on this occasion I just can't hold it. > > > >This posting has a somewhat political nature to it. It can also=20 >expose you to an act that might abuse the story of Snow white for=20 >you. If you choose to stay innocent, please do not read any further. > > > >-------------------------- > > > >I'm sure many of you have already heard about the Israeli=20 >ambassador's reaction to an installation standing in the historical=20 >museum in Stockholm. You may agree or disagree with his reaction,=20 >but my letter to you is about the abusing of a story and the=20 >destructive power of storytelling when it joins with propaganda in=20 >the name of art. > > > >The installation has a text that comes with it. The text follows=20 >these words. Another text there is a list of the names of the people=20 >killed in that attack. It is worth nothing when placed next to=20 >something so powerfully metaphoric. Like saying something you don't=20 >really care for or mean, just because it might be something you=20 >could point at as a "balancing element". > > > >To those of you that have not seen the installation: A large=20 >portrait photograph of the homicide bomber (a beautiful female face)=20 >attached onto a pole sticking out of a little white boat floating=20 >upon a large pool of blood (red paint). The lights shine on the=20 >blood and the whole reflection has a "magical" and mysterious=20 >feeling to it. Like something out of fairy tails. > > > >The text: > > > >Snow White and The Madness of Truth >17/01 - 07/02 >Plats: Historiska Museet > > >Installation > >Once upon a time in the middle of winter >For the June 12 deaths of her brother, and her cousin >and three drops of blood fell >She was also a woman >as white as snow, as red as blood, and her hair was as black as ebony >Seemingly innocent with universal non-violent character, less=20 >suspicious of intentions >and the red looked beautiful upon the white >The murderer will yet pay the price and we will not be the only ones=20 >who are crying >like a weed in her heart until she had no peace day and night >Hanadi Jaradat was a 29-year-old lawyer >I will run away into the wild forest, and never come home again >Before the engagement took place, he was killed in an encounter with=20 >the Israeli security forces >and she ran over sharp stones and through thorns >She said: Your blood will not have been shed in vain >and was about to pierce Snow White's innocent heart >She was hospitalized, prostrate with grief, after witnessing the shootings >The wild beasts will soon have devoured you >After his death, she became the breadwinner and she devoted herself=20 >solely to that goal >=EEYes=EE, said Snow White, "with all my heart=EE >Weeping bitterly, she added: "If our nation cannot realize its dream=20 >and the goals of the victims, and live in freedom and dignity, then=20 >let the whole world be erased" >Run away, then, you poor child >She secretly crossed into Israel, charged into a Haifa restaurant,=20 >shot a security guard, blew herself up and murdered 19 innocent=20 >civilians >as white as snow, as red as blood, and her hair was as black as ebony >And many people are indeed crying: the Zer Aviv family, the Almog=20 >family, and all the relatives and friends of the dead and the wounded >and the red looked beautiful upon the white > > > > > >I'll leave the analysis to you (I've done mine). For me, the story=20 >of "Snow White" is abused forever. I wonder what the German=20 >ambassador will feel like after he sees that "work". > > > >With great sadness, Love, Limor, Israel. > >------------------------------- >To Unsubscribe from Healingstory send the message: unsubscribe healingstory >to: listserv@maelstrom.stjohns.edu >------------------------------- Noa Baum 13 Devon Road Silver Spring, MD 20910 (301) 587-3558 cell: (703) 244-1938 http://www.noabaum.com noabaum@earthlink.net ------------------------------- To Unsubscribe from Healingstory send the message: unsubscribe healingstory to: listserv@maelstrom.stjohns.edu ------------------------------- | ||