<nettime> first report from the strasbourg no border camp

[anna balint]

apologies Frederic,
i have sent this to nettime,

geert lovink wrote:


>It is amazing to see the how the no
>border camp concept has grown since the first one took place in 1998 (see my
>reports on nettime, August 1998 and another one from August 1999). The idea
>of the no border camp grew out of the (German) No One Is Illegal campaign,
>which was launched at Documenta X in July 1997 (inspired by the French Sans
>Papiers movement). There are now a multitude of border camps taking place
>all over Europe and beyond, for instance Tijuana/Mexico and
>Woomera/Australia (www.woomera2002.com).


Dear Geert Lovink,
i am already ashamed to repeat: it looks like you would have never heard of artistic work with border concepts before 
Documenta X, and such work would have been possible to conceive only in a high technology  environment.
why not mention the
- Republique Geniale of Robert Filliou and numorous following territrial concepts
- the artist's passports and actions such as the neoist passports,the Martian passport of Guy Bleus, NSK's passport, the 
nomad passports and the Manoeuvre Nomade,
- performance works such as the work of Guillermo Gomez Pena or Monty Canstin
- the Refugee Republic of Ingo Gunther
- Van Gogh TV and Piazza Virtuale
- Slavoj Zizek's text Es gibt Keinen Staat in Europa
- why forget Golania - or Romanian social movement is not important enough to remember?

anna balint