NIGHT SHIFT Night Shift and r a k e t a invite you to a Burma salong where Åsa Ståhl will report about her and Erik Sandelins experiences from meetings, artists and cooperations during winter 2007/08. "You can be our window",an artist from Burma said to Erik Sandelin and Åsa Ståhl where they spent 10 weeks during this winter. "You can tell the world about Burma and you can tell us about the world outside." What does life look like beyond the images of marching monks and people in need who is denied help after a cyklon and whos Generals , as Gordon Brown expressed it; right now causer a man-made disaster? What role can art play in a society where peoples life is at the limit, and within one year also is striked by brutally shot down demonstrations as well a natural catastrophes which effects has been even wores due to the hostility to foreigners by the military junta. What can we do from here? Presence or boycott, catastrophy support via big organisations or grassroot organisations? |