This might be a complete co-incidence, but it's got a moo moo, a 23, graffiti and abandoning art in it so it probably deserves to live in the list archives... -------- fwd --------- Militant graffiti artists August 20, 2004 Swedish graffiti artists kidnapped a fibreglass cow from the international art exhibit CowParade, held power drills to its head and threatened to "sacrifice" it unless the sculptures were declared "non-art". A video sent to a newspaper showed the cow flanked by two masked, black-clad figures wielding power drills in front of a sign reading "Stockholm's Militant Graffiti Artists". "We demand that the cows are declared non-art. Otherwise the hostage will be sacrificed," said a voice on the video. The group gave the organisers of the Stockholm exhibit until noon on August 23 to comply with their demand. The video was shown to police investigating the cow's disappearance last week from an island housing Stockholm's Modern Art Museum. "We are very upset about the whole matter," said Helena Cederberg, a spokeswoman for CowParade, which is touted as "the world's largest public art event". It has displayed life-size cows decorated by local artists across the world starting with Chicago and New York in 1999. The shows are sponsored by local business and promote the work of professional and amateur local artists. When the show ends, the cows are auctioned and 75 per cent of the proceeds go to charity. The Stockholm cows are to be auctioned next month. There are 68 more fibre-glass cows grazing on pavements, squares and in shop-windows all around Stockholm, but Cederberg said: "We're not going to worry just yet about the other cows, we are waiting for information from the police." CowParade is also on show in the Czech capital Prague, Manchester, England and Harrisburg in Pennsylvania. It opens soon in South Africa. Vandalism marred the Prague show, prompting ex-president Vaclav Havel, who decorated one cow, to say: "Maybe some people can't bear to look at anything nice, unusual or ornamental, maybe they can't even bear to look into the mirror". Reuters
Top! Mad for it! Ray Andrew Robinson <andrew@bml.co.uk> wrote: This might be a complete co-incidence, but it's got a moo moo, a 23, graffiti and abandoning art in it so it probably deserves to live in the list archives... -------- fwd --------- Militant graffiti artists August 20, 2004 Swedish graffiti artists kidnapped a fibreglass cow from the international art exhibit CowParade, held power drills to its head and threatened to "sacrifice" it unless the sculptures were declared "non-art". A video sent to a newspaper showed the cow flanked by two masked, black-clad figures wielding power drills in front of a sign reading "Stockholm's Militant Graffiti Artists". "We demand that the cows are declared non-art. Otherwise the hostage will be sacrificed," said a voice on the video. The group gave the organisers of the Stockholm exhibit until noon on August 23 to comply with their demand. The video was shown to police investigating the cow's disappearance last week from an island housing Stockholm's Modern Art Museum. "We are very upset about the whole matter," said Helena Cederberg, a spokeswoman for CowParade, which is touted as "the world's largest public art event". It has displayed life-size cows decorated by local artists across the world starting with Chicago and New York in 1999. The shows are sponsored by local business and promote the work of professional and amateur local artists. When the show ends, the cows are auctioned and 75 per cent of the proceeds go to charity. The Stockholm cows are to be auctioned next month. There are 68 more fibre-glass cows grazing on pavements, squares and in shop-windows all around Stockholm, but Cederberg said: "We're not going to worry just yet about the other cows, we are waiting for information from the police." CowParade is also on show in the Czech capital Prague, Manchester, England and Harrisburg in Pennsylvania. It opens soon in South Africa. Vandalism marred the Prague show, prompting ex-president Vaclav Havel, who decorated one cow, to say: "Maybe some people can't bear to look at anything nice, unusual or ornamental, maybe they can't even bear to look into the mirror". Reuters _______________________________________________ KLF mailing list KLF@mailman.xmission.com http://mailman.xmission.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/klf --------------------------------- ALL-NEW Yahoo! Messenger - all new features - even more fun!
This foolproof system has been developed by top discordian scientists to determine whether a given instance is directly related to the KLF: 1. Is the number 23 involved? YES/NO 2. Does it have cows in it? YES/NO 3. Is there any kind of reference to the continence of Mu? YES/NO 4. Has there been any denial of involvement by Jimmy and /or Bill and/or their press agent? YES/NO 5. Does it propose or advocate the abandoning of art? YES/NO 6. Does it use the Compacta font? YES/NO 7. Is there a bootleg of it? YES/NO 8. Are people charging or paying ludicrous prices for it on e-bay? YES/NO 9. Did Gimpo film it? YES/NO 10. Does it make a convoluted and obtuse point about something or other which art students would know about? YES/NO 11. Is it trying to get arrested? YES/NO If you can answer YES to all eleven questions, then you are probably dealing with the work of the KLF. Please note that the work of Bill Drummond and Jimmy Cauty has not fallen into this category since 1991. --------------------------------- ALL-NEW Yahoo! Messenger - all new features - even more fun!
----- Original Message ----- From: Raymond Baal 3. Is there any kind of reference to the continence of Mu? --------------------------------- Any reference to the incontinence of vous? seek
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IS the correct answer ;-) Chris Barker <cjbarker2000@yahoo.co.uk> wrote: Could Raymond's dealer please contact me off-list? :-) ___________________________________________________________ALL-NEW Yahoo! Messenger - all new features - even more fun! http://uk.messenger.yahoo.com _______________________________________________ KLF mailing list KLF@mailman.xmission.com http://mailman.xmission.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/klf --------------------------------- ALL-NEW Yahoo! Messenger - all new features - even more fun!
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This might be a complete co-incidence, but it's got a moo moo, a 23, graffiti and abandoning art in it so it probably deserves to live in the list archives... Militant graffiti artists August 20, 2004 Swedish graffiti artists kidnapped a fibreglass cow from the international art exhibit CowParade, held power drills to its head and threatened to "sacrifice" it unless the sculptures were declared "non-art".
Terrorism, false idols, sacred cows... I just wanna Scream: http://edition.cnn.com/2004/WORLD/europe/08/23/scream.theft/ http://hemsidor.torget.se/users/a/artlu/english/ "Graffiti came to Sweden in the beginning of the eighties. The 17:th of August 1984 the hip hop movie "Beat street" was showed in cinemas for the first time in Sweden. Shortly after that, Swedish television showed "Style wars", a documentary by Henry Chalfant and Tony Silver about the hip hop culture in New York. This resulted in a lot of Swedish youths starting to paint graffiti. One of the first graffitipainter in Sweden was Disey, an artinterested guy from Trångsund, a suburb to Stockholm." seek
Mu haha. I know something you don't know, but I bet the cow execution didn't happen yesterday and if it did wont have been filmed over there. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Andrew Robinson" <andrew@bml.co.uk> To: "All bound for Mu-Mu Land." <klf@mailman.xmission.com> Sent: Monday, August 23, 2004 10:51 AM Subject: [KLF] Coincidence?
This might be a complete co-incidence, but it's got a moo moo, a 23, graffiti and abandoning art in it so it probably deserves to live in the list archives...
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Militant graffiti artists August 20, 2004
Swedish graffiti artists kidnapped a fibreglass cow from the international art exhibit CowParade, held power drills to its head and threatened to "sacrifice" it unless the sculptures were declared "non-art".
A video sent to a newspaper showed the cow flanked by two masked, black-clad figures wielding power drills in front of a sign reading "Stockholm's Militant Graffiti Artists".
"We demand that the cows are declared non-art. Otherwise the hostage will be sacrificed," said a voice on the video. The group gave the organisers of the Stockholm exhibit until noon on August 23 to comply with their demand.
The video was shown to police investigating the cow's disappearance last week from an island housing Stockholm's Modern Art Museum.
"We are very upset about the whole matter," said Helena Cederberg, a spokeswoman for CowParade, which is touted as "the world's largest public art event".
It has displayed life-size cows decorated by local artists across the world starting with Chicago and New York in 1999.
The shows are sponsored by local business and promote the work of professional and amateur local artists. When the show ends, the cows are auctioned and 75 per cent of the proceeds go to charity. The Stockholm cows are to be auctioned next month.
There are 68 more fibre-glass cows grazing on pavements, squares and in shop-windows all around Stockholm, but Cederberg said: "We're not going to worry just yet about the other cows, we are waiting for information from the police."
CowParade is also on show in the Czech capital Prague, Manchester, England and Harrisburg in Pennsylvania. It opens soon in South Africa.
Vandalism marred the Prague show, prompting ex-president Vaclav Havel, who decorated one cow, to say: "Maybe some people can't bear to look at anything nice, unusual or ornamental, maybe they can't even bear to look into the mirror".
Reuters
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My theory about this is that Bill and Jimmy are still trying to get to talk to Bjorn and Benny of Abba in order to get '1987' officially released to a damp public. Knowing that the hirsute duo are big animal lovers, they've embarked on a veiled publicity campaign that they hope will lead to their first Number One just in time for the XMAS release of 'KLF Greatest Hits'. There. Simple! My other theory is concerning multiple names. Michael K, Luther Blissett, Karen Eliot, Monty Cantsin and Jon Doe. You're all the same person and I bet you'll be trying to get down my chimney on December 25th as well. There. You see? Suddenly the conspiracies of the world become easy peasy. Jon Doe <jondoe@clsmweb.fsnet.co.uk> wrote: Mu haha. I know something you don't know, but I bet the cow execution didn't happen yesterday and if it did wont have been filmed over there. --------------------------------- ALL-NEW Yahoo! Messenger - all new features - even more fun!
Free remix album of the new Prodigy album available here: http://www.prodigyremixed.com Phil.
Thanks Phil. The real album took a couple of listens but it's top of my playlist ATM. ----- Original Message ----- From: Phil Blake To: All bound for Mu-Mu Land. Sent: Tuesday, August 24, 2004 7:37 PM Subject: [KLF] http://www.prodigyremixed.com Free remix album of the new Prodigy album available here: http://www.prodigyremixed.com Phil. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ KLF mailing list KLF@mailman.xmission.com http://mailman.xmission.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/klf
Thanks Phil. The real album took a couple of listens but it's top of my playlist ATM. No worries, I'm one of the few (it seems) that loves it as well :)
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