[CPProt.net] NY Artist Intervenes

[Charles V. Sabba]

FYI



Ton, This is a very interesting work by Perry Bard.
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From: Andrew Ginzel 
To: Charlie Sabba ; Charlie Sabba 
Sent: Friday, June 10, 2005 12:29 AM
Subject: FYI


STATUS: STOLEN 
A mobile truckside billboard by PERRY BARD 
In transit from 30th - 60th Streets East and West in Manhattan 
8: A.M. - 6:00 P.M.  Monday through Friday, some Saturdays 
June 13- July 9  2005 

STATUS : STOLEN is a mobile billboard featuring five of the Mesopotamian artifacts  that are either destroyed or missing from the Baghdad Museum. Those objects and thousands more are still missing. Meant as a public alert to loss of these major cultural objects (after two years of occupation), the billboard, installed  on a delivery truck, will be in transit  in New York City  June- to 13 - July 9, 2005 . 

In April 2003 over 15,000 artifacts were looted from the Museum including statues, objects and 5000 year old tablets bearing some of the earliest known writing. (The first figure reported 175,000 objects stolen. It was later discovered that some had been removed in anticipation of the attacks, others have now been recovered.) Thirty- three archaeological sites were looted, three of them were severely damaged. The relief sculptures on the Gates of Ishtar have already been damaged by U.S. army presence in Babylon. Troops currently occupying Ur, Kish and Hatra are destroying the walls and foundations of those cities as well. Looting is rampant. 

What has inspired this work is the sheer beauty and design of the missing objects and the fact of continuing occupation. While there are conflicting views about the war there is universal concern at the loss of these artifacts.  

STATUS : STOLEN as a public billboard is meant  to arouse awareness that these artifacts are now undoubtedly circulating on the black market. 

Funding has been made possible by the Puffin Foundation and through the support of www.whitespacem.com 

Sightings can be arranged by contacting the artist: minx at bway.net  
Image online at http://home.earthlink.net/~ge5/statusstolen.html 
  
Perry Bard is  an artist working in installation, video  and public art,  living  in New York City. Bard has exhibited internationally: in the U.S. at  
P.S. 1, the New Museum, MOCA Georgia,Florida's  Southeast Museum of Photography; in France at  the  F.R.A.C des Pays de La Loire; at the Sao Paolo Bienal in Brazil, in Spain at the Reina Sofia Museum, the Austrian Cultural Forum in London amongst others. Public works include temporary video installations for the Staten Island  Ferry  Terminal Building, Market Square in Middlesbrough UK, a JVC Video Store in Sofia Bulgaria, Hotel Cristal in Bialystok Poland. 

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