a letter from sture johannesson
Dear Aryan,
I am very happy that you clearly see and understand the point and technique
in my project! The playful game with ’sting’. This is a technique I have
used in many of my earlier works and happenings, violence doesn’t pay in
resistance and attacks on the authorities in power, but humour and
playfulness can work - that is something I learnt and experienced in the
Gulag Archipelago. As I write on my homepage: ‘even a mischief performance
aroused archetypal behaviour of the authorities in power, bringing about
faces of the Watchmen; the Guardians of the Camp, with censorship, police
brutality, and political persecution of dissidents’. And now, grown up and
as an old man, I still practice this technique. It will be some kind of “media freaking”, like Abbie Hoffman coined in the 60s.
Best regards,
Sture
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