Syndicate: A Virtual MemorialNewsletter 04-2001

["Agricola de Cologne" <agricola-w@netcologne.de>]

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A Newsletter
*Edition A Virtual Memorial 04-2001* Part 1
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A Virtual Memorial
Memorial project against the Forgetting and for Humanity
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Table of Contents:
News
The Editor's Note
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News
from 13-18 March 2001,  A Virtual Memorial
participated in "Videoformes Festival" Clermont Ferrand (France)

in February/March 2001
A Virtual Memorial was represented at
www.wigged.net

in March/April 2001
A Virtual Memorial is represented at
www.thetimebroker.de
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The Editor's Note

Dear friends,

The subject of the month April  is entitled:
"Transit - Moving from one sphere to another"

Memorial Days in April

9 April 1945 Dietrich Bonh?fer executed
20 April Jom HaShoa
24 April Genocide Memorial Day (Armenia)
26 April Chernobyl Commemoration Day
27 April Freedom Day (South Africa)

The Features of the Month are monthly changing
collections of multimedia works and links which form in the
totality of the composition an artwork of theirown
to be created on a webpage of theirown
within the Memorial project.

Artist of the Month: "Melissa Gould"
ArtObject of the Month: "Go to the Montain top"
Man of the Month: "Dalai Lama"
Poem of the Month: "In transit" by Patricia Turnbull
City of the Month: "Saigon"
Animal of the Month: "Mountain Gorilla"
People of the Month: "Sinti and Roma"
Ruin of the Month: "Chernobyl"
Desease of the Month: "Foot and Mouth Desease"

About Subject

April represents a month of transit for itself.
The winter finally had come to an end,
a periode of new departures in nature and
the human biorhythm is beginning.

The installation  of  "Transit Camps" is practiced since long time,
whether because of humanitarian reasons in order
to give people temporary protection from war,
terror or nature catastrophes, or as an instrument
for persecuting and humiliating people or minorities
in totalitarian systems.
Most of the Nazi concentration camps had been transit camps,
where people had been concentrated in order to be spread
easily to extermination or working camps,
and in the war regions of the Balkan transit camps
became nearly institutionalized.

The artist of the month  "Melissa Gould" is (was)
moving from one sphere to another
Her stays in Germany together with the background of
the persecution of her own family in Nazi times
caused a variety of artistic projects.

"Go to the montain top", Agricola's Flash video
describes the situation of the re-unifying Berlin
on  the background of its own  history as a center
of militarism and war.

The "Dalai Lama", head of the Tibetan Buddhism (Lamaism)
represents a wanderer and mediator between East and West.
Expulsed from his home country he tries to preserve
his culture in exile.
It is his belief building bridges,
which drives him to interfere in matters of
Human Rights at many places and occasions on our globe,
not only connected to the Tibetan Nation.

Like a lot of other African species, the Mountain Gorilla
is most threatened with extinct.
The space for living and surviving becomes small and smaller
in a dramatic speed, so that a "transit",
i.e. an adjustment to the changed living circumstances,
is not possible by their own effords.

"Transit" is a living and culture principle and a central element
of the people of the month, the "Sinti and Roma", the gypsies.
>From their origin being nomads and travelling people,
they move(d) from one country, one culture to another,
often persecuted by people, sometimes tolerated by others,
but mostly and even until theses days often enough
not accepted as a ethnic m?nority.

"Chernobyl" became a symbol of "transit", the radiation of the
unvisible dangers of radioactivity caused by the nuclear
catastrophe 1986.
Entire regions in Ukraine and particularly Belarus
remain conterminated and restricted areas for an indefinite periode.
This caused and still cause unbelievable misery,
bringing dead through cancer and other deaseses and circumstances.
Particularly children are suffering.
But as a result of this catastrophe,
Chernobyl represents now also a symbol of the end of
the civil use of nuclear energy.

"Saigon", nowadays called  Ho-Chi-Minh City, represents these days,
as well as in the past a symbol.
Once in connection with colonialism, the separation of
Vietnam into a Southern and a Northern part,
the Vietnamese wars of the French and Americans and  their defeat,
but nowadays also a symbol for the reunification of
both Vienamese countries.
On 30 April, the anniversary of the Vietnamese
reunification is celebrated each year.

"Transit" represents the character of a desease raging these days,
the Foot-and-Mouth Desease, which is spread like wildfire
over the countries even without immediate contact.
In times of globalization and industrial mass livestock
this can mean even a war-like situation and cause immense
economical loss and damage.

All those who move from one sphere to another,
have to care not only for themselves,
but also for the environment they are moving in.
Otherwise uncalculable risks and dangers may be connected.
Responsability and solidarity is necessary to avoid damages.

Best regards,

Wilfried Agricola de Cologne
Editor in Chief
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