[syndicate] a dreambeach promenade

[anna balint]

dear Frederic,
at first sight it was not evident for me the Balaton lake genealogy of spam art.
But if Walter Benjamin was in that hotel in 1935 when he wrote 
The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction...
http://pixels.filmtv.ucla.edu/community/julian_scaff/benjamin/benjamin.html
greetings,
anna



11/20/01 8:27:59 PM, Frederic  Madre <fmadre at wanadoo.fr> wrote:

>ah anna,
>
>>I followed your link on the dream beach,
>
>it is you who is joining the beach party with a beautiful szeged salami
>http://www.pick.hu/angol/tudjae/tudjae.htm
>my favorite food in the world
>
>>i got to the laudanum cream, and I read,
>>that you are the one who coined the expression
>>spam art
>
>still, I prefer the salami
>http://www.arts.u-szeged.hu/journal/shaman/shaman.html
>of szeged
>
>>(and that you are notorious for not subscribing to nettime).
>
>(like millions of people)
>
>>Do you tell us, how do you define spam art, when did you coin it, and
>>what expereince you have with it?
>
>let me tell you a story
>when I was a kid, in the mid 60s I guess, my parents took me and my brother 
>to the lake balaton, probably riding us in their DKW car, a beautiful red 
>car with a weird german built. all I remember is that we were in a quite 
>big hotel and there was an orchestra when we dined, maybe you have been to 
>this hotel. one evening the orchestra played a twist tune, my small brother 
>got in front of the stage and danced the twist alone in the dining room 
>while people were eating. another day I was outside and there was a small 
>bridge over a pond in the middle of a square. As I walked on the pond, 
>somehow I fell into the water and didn't know how to swim. I was drowning 
>with my eyes open and I could see the small baby frogs, they do not look 
>like frogs at all they have this flat tail and big head with just eyes, 
>they are black and they look at a little kid drowning in the water and they 
>float in the yellow water with bits of plants too. But some man picked me 
>out of the water and saved me. Afterwards he gave me a GUM badge.
>
>>(and why did you not subscribe to nettime?)
>
>I did subscribe to nettime but I had to unsubscribe because of fascistic 
>enforcement of propaganda during the kosovo war. I made sure I was heard 
>slamming the door behind me. They were yelling victory to the KLA. 
>http://amsterdam.nettime.org/Lists-Archives/nettime-l-9904/msg00005.html
>"this is where moderation gets really hard"
>or, rather,
>http://www.v2.nl/mail/v2east/1999/Aug/0032.html
>
>who else has a balaton story ?
>
>write to me
>mailto:syndicate at anart.no
>frederic
>
>
>
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