Re: Outraged Bush Conspires With DC Art Critic

In a message dated 2003:09:02 06:34:11 PM, press@... writes:

>US Department of Art & Technology
>Washington, DC
>http://www.usdat.us
>press@usdat.us
>
>
>Press Secretary
>For Immediate Release: September 2, 2003
>
>Outraged Bush Conspires With DC Art Critic
>
>WASHINGTON, DC - The US Department of Art & Technology (US DAT) has
>learned from senior White House officials that an outraged President
>George W. Bush directed the Justice Department to conspire with a DC
>art critic to discredit the Department and its Visitor Center at the
>Corcoran Gallery of Art in a recent review in one of Washington's
>alternative newspapers.
>
>Apparently the President felt US DAT's anti-administration,
>hyper-political propaganda was too close to home - the Corcoran is
>across the street from the White House - ordering Attorney General
>John Ashcroft to seek out a local art critic who could be easily
>influenced.
>
>Ashcroft was eager to take on the assignment given his recent defense
>of the USA Patriot Act. According to the Attorney General, "We
>really did not want to undermine the exhibition at the Corcoran, we
>just wanted to reveal the true intent of the US Department of Art &
>Technology in order to protect our homeland. We felt that working
>with a local art critic would give the Department of Justice a good
>shot at fighting such blatantly unpatriotic and subversive behavior
>as demonstrated by Secretary Randall M. Packer."
>
>What tipped off the Department was a reference to a work by DC
>artists Team Response, who in the exhibition satirically depicted the
>Secretary's art studio as the "all seeing eye" atop a federal annex
>near Colorado Springs. The following statement in the review exposed
>the Administration's deep existential paranoia of artists when it
>described "Packer's studio as one of those eye-capped pyramids that
>stokes conspiracy theories in the brains of stoners staring down the
>back of their last dollar."
>
>President Bush meanwhile has called an emergency cabinet meeting in
>an effort to suppress the controversy brewing from within his
>increasingly fractured Administration. When the White House Press
>Secretary was asked to comment he replied, "The President is focused
>on what has to happen here, today, based on the facts on the ground.
>I'm not going to anticipate or try to anticipate every conceivable
>threat that comes from within the Department of Art & Technology. We
>are dealing with a series of events that took place, and that's where
>we are today. I have no further comment."
>
>Asked if he will seek a congressional investigation, Secretary Packer
>exclaimed, "I can understand the President's fear of artists seeking
>to reclaim America's government, but what is truly disturbing, is how
>easily the media succumb to the hard-ball tactics that prevail in the
>Bush Administration. Despite resistance from the Administration and
>the local press, we will continue our effort to fight anachronistic
>tendencies in order to create a world without fear and with unfeigned
>pleasure, a visionary world inspired by the legacy of the
>avant-garde, for which we all yearn."
>
>The Secretary went on to quote the Italian Futurists, "Realizing the
>scope of our task and the imperative need for success, we intend to
>exalt aggressive action, a feverish insomnia, the racer's stride, the
>mortal leap, the punch and the slap."
>
>********
>
>The US Department of Art & Technology
>http://www.usdat.us
>
>The US Department of Art and Technology is the United States
>principal conduit for facilitating the artist's need to extend
>aesthetic inquiry into the broader culture where ideas become real
>action. It also serves the psychological and spiritual well-being of
>all Americans by supporting cultural efforts that provide immunity
>from the extension of new media technologies into the social sphere.
>
>US DAT Visitor Center
>
>The US DAT Visitor Center, currently on view until October 6 at the
>Corcoran Gallery of Art in Washington, DC, has as its theme, "Enter a
>Citizen, Exit a Revolutionary." The exhibit features a unique
>collection of tactical media, information panels, and a historical
>timeline detailing the chronology of the Department and its
>extraordinary development. The Visitor Center was organized by the US
>Department of Art & Technology, the Corcoran College of Art & Design,
>and the White House Office of Appropriations.
>
># 01-125

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