jit.artists

[integer at www.god-emil.dk]

>Art Focus 4, the fourth international biennial of contemporary art in
>Jerusalem, is to be held this year in the Museum of Underground Prisoners
>- a facility owned by the Israeli Ministry of Defense.
>
>Using this proposition (and in accord with the event's curators), the
>ministry decided to have the artworks censored by its clerks in order to
>have changed(!) works that may, in their opinion, "damage the spirit of
>the site".
>
>All the participating artists where sent the contract stating that the
>Ministry of Defense "reserves the right to request from the artist to make
>changes in his/her work". Interesting enough, most of the artists have
>agreed to these terms and have signed the contract.


Interestingly most `artists` are employees and most are gov `employees`
in other words most artists are dead