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Your opportunity to be in Camp X-ray

UHC Collective | 04.09.2003 16:55 | Anti-militarism

We are delighted to announce details of our latest art event. Your chance
to be interned in your very own concentration camp for a week.

'DON'T CROSS THE LINE

http://www.uhc-collective.org.uk/exhibitions/cross_the_line/info.htm
A series of 3 new art works on the theme of 'the new imperialism'
including work by Jai of UHC, Helen Knowles and Maggie Lambert.

'THIS IS CAMP X-RAY'

http://www.uhc-collective.org.uk/exhibitions/cross_the_line/jairedman.htm
A new art installation consisting of a fully operational, life-size
replica of the U.S internment camp at Guantanamo Bay. It is currently
being constructed in the city of Manchester and will be operational from
Friday 10th October 2003.

For 9 days at the beginning of October artist Jai Redman, in collaboration
with the political art group UHC collective, intends to create a fully
functioning internment camp in the centre of Manchester, UK.

The installation piece will aim to replicate part of the Camp X-Ray
facility in Guantanamo Bay in Cuba, currently home to America's captured
Al Qaeda suspects and arrested 'unlawful combatants' from Afghanistan and
Iraq.

It will be built, and maintained using only mainstream media images as its
source. It is the artist's intention to keep nine volunteer 'unlawful
combatants' incarcerated in the Manchester camp for nine full days and
nights, under 24 surveillance and 'armed' guard.

WE ARE ALL IN CAMP X-RAY - TURN YOURSELF IN!

http://www.uhc-
collective.org.uk/exhibitions/cross_the_line/campXray/help_build.htm
In order to realise this ambitious project, UHC are releasing this call
for you to get involved. There are 14 vacancies to be filled in the camp -
5 guards and 9 prisoners. If you think you could be one of those people
get in touch.

WE NEED MONEY/HELP

http://www.uhc-
collective.org.uk/exhibitions/cross_the_line/campXray/wish_list.htm
Concentration camps aren't cheap and they don't build themselves. A full
'wish list' of materials and props is also available via the above
website. Any assistance with securing materials or loaning equipment
would be very gratefully received and can be credited.

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UHC Collective
- political art + propaganda
www.uhc-collective.org.uk

UHC Collective
e-mail: mail@uhc-collective.org.uk
Homepage: http://www.uhc-collective.org.uk

Comments

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duh!

04.09.2003 17:25

This is not only ineffective most probably parasitic!

Why not go to DSEi and strom the trade in death.
ENcourage everyone to do the same too instead of staging some poncy arty farty pile of crap!!

ram

No

04.09.2003 18:41

I disagree Ram, this will most probably at one point during its lifetime attract the attention of the mainstream media, a little article at the end of channel 4 news most probably. Anything to highlight this issue can only be a good thing.

Farmer of karma

Ram the man

04.09.2003 18:46

Strange as it might seem to you. The likelyhood is that the DSEi 'storm' will be nothing of the sort and be no more effective than the 'arty farty' crap. The chances are that the DSEi day of direct action, will be a mere media stunt - and not a very good one.

The 'arty farty' thing in Manchester is a perfectly valid thing to be doing. It gets people involved, it forces issues into peoples minds and it is accessable. No doubt the manchester posse are coming down for DSEi and your slagging off their art/media stunt is franky just typical bullshit from somebody (YOU) who I doubt has ever done anything vaguely useful in his(?) life. You manage to write plenty of critical comments but are you actually a do'er youself? I doubt it..

more arts fartsy crap PLEASE!!!!!

04.09.2003 20:24

the uhc collective rocks!

the more creative and public outreach campaigning that can be done the better.

power to the artists and theatre groups out there - see ya outside dsei!

artz

storm in a cup

05.09.2003 02:25

r,

Yes of course if the little available people spend time collecting money to waste on another consumerist project (can't they atleast use recycled material? do you wan tme to believe that in run down Manchester there is not enough crap to build a concentration camp with?)
the DSEi might indeed be a storm in a teacup.
Maybe it might turn out to be a good wolloping from the pigscum.
UHC should be giving al their efforts to DSEi at the momoment and I would prefer to see continuation of pressure on the trade in death than some abstract crap about some place that no Mancunian gives a shit!
Camp X-Ray is exclusively muslim territory and our racist nation will never give a shit about it. Maybe Osama might stage a rescue mission or everyone there is good as dead ...anyway they are walking dead due to torture.

Instead a sustained pressure on the arms trade should affect most of us directly.
Let's do what is possible by our teeny weeny capacity than pulled in million different directions.

ram

yeah right!

06.09.2003 18:50

as in you ram and your idiotic comment. For one thing, the arms fair is in september in London whilst the uhc event is in october in Manchester. For all you know people from uhc could be going down to dsei, as well as putting on camp x-ray. The imagination, intelligently applied, can and does make a deep impact on people's perceptions, and uhc have proved themselves many times on that score. After all, who produced the artwork appearing on all those dsei fliers?

frill

UHC at DSEi

19.09.2003 12:28

It may interest you to know that there was a UHC presence at DSEi. Ram maybe you shouldnt be so quick to slag ppl off. UHC collective are not just a bunch of 'artsy fartsy' types. They contribute to all manner of issues using their medium.
We all have different roles to play and UHC posse do what they do well, how about some support towards people who stand by us ram, i.e. UHC collective.
(and no i'm not part of UHC!!)

fisheye
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