Punkvert goes large on ITV next Tuesday in a reality show where drastically different families exchange holidays.
thecustard.tv tipsheet • tuesday's tv
"9.00pm Holiday Showdown ITV1 to 10.00pm
The Richardson family from Lincolnshire love ranching holidays and gun shooting in Texas; the Blackwood family from London (headed by bisexual, anarchist video artists Paul and Emma) love the laidback attitude of America’s gay capital San Francisco. Reruns Wednesday, ITV2"
You don't learn it at school. You don't read about it in the news. Here's how the smashracismcrew at the University of Technology Sydney sum up the significance of Australia and what to do about it.
26th January is the date British colonizers stepped ashore, planted the Union Jack and illegally (even by the laws of
Britain) claimed this land. They based the invasion and occupation on a legal lie, "terra nullius" (or "empty land" -
meaning the land was unoccupied).
What followed was active genocide against the occupants of this land for many generations (massacres with guns,
poisonings of waterholes, deliberate infections with diseases to which Indigenous people had not developed
resistance by the distribution of blankets sprinkled with smallpox scabs, and many other atrocities). There was
active resistance by Indigenous people.
More subtle forms of oppresion included the Aborigines Protection Act which led to removal of Indigenous people
from their land and livelihoods, removal of children from their parents and culture, and the enforced and often
unpaid use of Indigenous youth as domestic servants and agricultural labourers. 218 years have now passed. No
treaty has ever been signed.
Indigenous people as a group continue to suffer the worst outcomes, compared to every other group in the
country, for infant mortality, health, adult mortality, education, employment and incarceration despite the obvious
tenacity and talent of people who have the oldest continuous living culture in the world. White Australia continues
to benefit from the theft of the land.
It has been pointed out that if Australia Day was really a celebration of our nation it would commemorate
federation in 1901. Many people prefer therefore to refer to the 26th of January as Invasion Day - to draw
attention to what is actually being 'celebrated' on 26th January. Many Indigenous people refer to 26th January as
Survival Day to highlight that despite everything, we have survived.
White Australia has a black history. If you are not participating in fightdemback's Cronulla fascist-monitoring
exercise on 26th January, then an alternative way to fight racism that day and reflect on our society and its history
in a positive way is to go to Yabun at Redfern Park - a free celebration, open to everyone, of Indigenous music,
culture & survival.
http://www.gadigal.org.au/yabun/yabun.htm
Or do some reading to arm yourself with facts. I'd recommend:
Violent Democracy by Daniel Ross
http://www.cambridge.org/aus/catalogue/catalogue.asp?isbn=0521603102
The Way We Civilise by Dr Rosalind Kidd
http://www.linksdisk.com/roskidd/WebBooks/BookCivilise.htm
Introduction to Indigenous resistance to invasion and occupation
http://www.upstarts.net.au/site/ideas/landrights/landrights_resistance.html
If low fi primary colours aren't your thing, look away now. ambientTV have a call out for submissions to a Teletext Art project
"TELETEXT ARTISTS WANTED for Lektrolab's Microtel channel! Must have Voluptuously Blinking Eyes!"
More ASCII art in all its glory...
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VBI [voluptuously blinking eye/vertical blanking interval] is a project by ambientTV.NET for the "Satellite of Love" exhibition of the International Film Festival Rotterdam. The project opens on January 26th and includes installations, talks, a lounge for meeting and relaxing, and the Microtel teletext broadcasting station run by Lektrolab.
"Satellite of Love" will run from January 26th through March 26th 2006 at the Witte de With centre for contemporary art, Rotterdam.
On the Microtel website, you will find information on
- how to create your own teletext piece
- how, when and where to get it shown
- everything you might need to know about teletext!
contact station managers Emma and Paul: vbi_microtel@lektrolab.com
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LINKS
Microtel
http://projects.lektrolab.com/microtel/
VBI [voluptuous blinking eye] http://www.ambienttv.net/content/?q=vbi
Satellite of Love
http://www.wdw.nl/project.php?id=116
35th International Film Festival Rotterdam http://www.filmfestivalrotterdam.com
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--> more info on Satellite of Love -->
The rapidly changing media landscape and especially that of the medium of television lie at the basis of the Satellite of Love exhibition. Over recent months, not a day has gone by without the media reporting technological, financial or political maneuvers in the world of television. The number of digital broadcasters is skyrocketing. The convergence of television, the Internet and mobile telephony is bringing about a radical change in the way programs are being presented to the public. The means of distributing image and sound may be increasing by the day, but this ?openness? also masks a new form of restriction. While at first a communal forum was developed for a broad public, it now appears that segmentation is striking due to market influences, with profit as the ultimate objective. In other words, the public space is disappearing while private space is gaining ground. Making television using a camera and a laptop hardly presents a problem, but a satellite link continues to be a privilege for the happy few.
In response to these trends, the organizers chose to provide a platform for the independent voice. In Satellite of Love, visual artists, media activists and television-makers rediscover something that is being torn apart from the top down. The aim is to establish a space (for reflection) where the production of live television is combined with installations. In addition, in the afternoon and evening there is a program of public discussions, masterclasses, and TV dinners organized in association with the Stimuleringsfonds Culturele Omroepproducties (Fund for Cultural Broadcasting Productions) and V2_, Institute for the Unstable Media. Satellite of Love and Exploding Television will also be broadcast online via VPRO Digitaal and local television, thus providing a lively context for interaction and reflection.
Participants in Satellite of Love include Franz Ackermann, AL+AL, Francis Alÿs, Mark Bain, John Logie Baird, Pierre Bismuth & Michel Gondry, Angela Bulloch, Edith Dekyndt, Dias & Riedweg, Michel François, Laurent Grasso, Erik van Lieshout, Yves Netzhammer, Melik Ohanian, Daniel Sauter & Osman Kahn, Monika Sosnowska, Maurice van Tellingen, Rirkrit Tiravanija, and Francesco Vezzoli. During the ten days of the IFFR, the following units will be producing live television: Ambient TV.NET from London, CAC TV from Vilnius, Orfeo TV-Telestreet from Bologna, De Taalpolitie from Rotterdam/Brussels, and tv-tv from Copenhagen.
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