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Date: Tue, 20 Jan 2004 08:10:27 -0700
MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Old and universal stories like Snow White come from the deepest places in the human psyche and speak to us all. They speak about good or evil, darkness or light, pain or joy, justice or vengeance. They make the shadow visible, they open up the doors to the darkest corners. They can be told in many ways. They make us human. So be it. Thank you, Limor, for informing me and for sharing your sorrow and anger. Janet Janet ----- Original Message ----- From: "Limor Shiponi, Interpersonal Arts" To: Sent: Tuesday, January 20, 2004 12:00 AM Subject: [HEALINGSTORY] An abused story - continued Hello, This posting continues my previous posting about the story of "Snow White". So again, if you would like not to be involved, don't read any further. I feel I made a mistake by assuming people have heard of this story but now I see they haven't. So here are some more details: The installation was created by a person who is a former Israeli and the text was written by his wife. I wondered about the German ambassador's reaction because it is a story of his culture that has been abused to my opinion. What was the reaction of the Israeli ambassador? He turned off the lights shining on the pool. Legally speaking, he as offended the work and property of another person and of the museum. Why has the story been abused, the way I see it? Because it has not been used as a full story with a new interpretation, but has been fragmented and twisted to the writer's intention: Not all the sentences introduced there as Snow white's words or thoughts are originally so, they belong to other characters, the order is mixed, a phrase by the hunter which shows compassion has been turned into a license to kill and most of the sentences could come from other stories except from those that speak about the beauty of the contrasting colors and of the "heroine". Having that text attached to the powerful image of a beautiful woman who resembles the description of the innocent heroine that has managed to escape the destiny her wicked stepmother had in mind for her, while we are looking at the face of a woman who has murdered 19 people with cold blood, some of them who are her own people (never mentioned in the text), floating over that pool of blood, is a sick way of expressing an opinion through art, and much more than mere "bad taste". And for those who still see it as an expression of the suffering of both sides: What would you feel like if you were standing in front of an installation of a pool full of ashes with the image of Osama Bin-Laden or one of the pilots who flew the plains into the twin-towers, floating above the pool with angel-wings, created by a former American artist and placed in an important historical museum somewhere in Europe, with the text of "The tin soldier" fragmented, twisted and mixed with inserts of his sufferings and motivations? Or an orchestra playing Richard Wagner's music in Auschwitz? Would that be considered an artistic installation too? Is anything permitted when it comes to art? ------------------------------- To Unsubscribe from Healingstory send the message: unsubscribe healingstory to: listserv@maelstrom.stjohns.edu ------------------------------- ------------------------------- To Unsubscribe from Healingstory send the message: unsubscribe healingstory to: listserv@maelstrom.stjohns.edu ------------------------------- | ||