On Monday, the racist, Islamophobic government of the Netherlands made a concerted attempt to annihilate their country’s rich progressive artistic heritage. Does anybody care?
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Read:
- Dutch new media arts organization about to lose all funding & what you can do
- The Dark Age Netherlands
- thinking about the day after
- Infographics: Are the budget cuts necessary or just plain stupid?
- Letter to Halbe Zijlstra, State Secretary for Education, Culture, and Science
Amongst the institutions that will most likely be shuttered within the next two years are STEIM, a pioneering and vitally necessary electro-acoustic media lab, and the Rijksakademie, an incredible facility and internationally recognized 1 to 2-year residency program for artists worldwide. I cannot believe that these two places, where I spent a week shuttling back and forth between in December, have been so callously excised from the world.
How the hell did this happen?
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