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Door Snader op 18 december 2002 Dozen 'angst' zaaien paniek in New York NEW YORK (AFP) - Een kunstzinnig project van een student in New York heeft paniek veroorzaakt op een druk metrostation in de stad, dat vijf uren werd ontruimd.
De 25-jarige Clinton Boisvert had als project voor zijn opleiding aan de School voor Visuele Kunsten 38 zwarte dozen met het opschrift 'Angst' geplaatst in het metrostation van Union Square.
Het was de bedoeling dat Boisvert de reacties van het publiek zou bestuderen. De dozen leidden tot paniek en de politie ontruimde het station. Het werd pas heropend toen bleek dat alle dozen 'angst' helemaal niets bevatten.
Boisvert is dinsdag beschuldigd van het in gevaar brengen van het leven van anderen. Volgens zijn advocaat gaat het slechts om een onschuldig kunstproject dat verkeerd afliep.
 Tim reageerde op 18 december 2002 om 12:59 uur. ik haat kunst(on)zinnige projecten
Hij kan weer...
wie kopt in?
 Snader reageerde op 18 december 2002 om 13:20 uur. wie kopt in? Ehhh, GA TOCH EENS VOETBALLEN!!
Zoiets?
 Rob reageerde op 18 december 2002 om 13:32 uur. Ik snap die smerissen ook wel. Normaal zoek je je rot naar die zwarte dozen, nu zou je op zoek moeten naar de neergestorte vliegtuigen. Is ook knap verwarrend, hoor.
En dan proberen weg te komen met zo'n naam. Clinton's Beflap of zo. 
 Dim reageerde op 18 december 2002 om 13:50 uur. Hij kan weer...
wie kopt in?
Bobbittje 
Zoiets?
Dennis reageerde op 18 december 2002 om 14:05 uur. weten die amerikanen dan wat 'angst' betekent (ff doordenken)
Dim reageerde op 18 december 2002 om 14:16 uur. (ff doordenken)
Is angst irakees voor chemische wapeninspectie ofzo???
Smaarten reageerde op 18 december 2002 om 17:11 uur. Wel geslaagd! Zie je meteen hoe de mensen eigenlijk zijn!
Tim reageerde op 18 december 2002 om 21:55 uur. 
dank dank dank
Sjaak Bonestaak reageerde op 18 december 2002 om 23:13 uur. Valt iddd wel in de categorie van die wapeninspecties én irakese vrouwen...
lege dozen
KabouterPikkie reageerde op 19 december 2002 om 01:13 uur. Moet ik hier nou iets typen?
Dim reageerde op 19 december 2002 om 11:01 uur. dank dank dank
Niet de gewenste reactie???
Ze moeten zeker gewoon eens gaan werken
James Arthur Wagner reageerde op 21 december 2002 om 03:23 uur. Damn, I wish I could read Dutch. Judging from the bits I can understand (or think I can), this art maven and lefty would probably be pleased. I live in New York, and the press coverage here is weird at best.
Sjaak Bonestaak reageerde op 21 december 2002 om 12:51 uur. Har Har Har just open a forum like this and criticise the bastards!! 
James Arthur Wagner reageerde op 21 december 2002 om 17:17 uur. I did, early on, but almost nobody stopped by. I didn't initially reveal my own opinion, and have not yet, as I hoped to encourage and make it safe for others to go in.
http://www.jameswagner.com/index.php?m=200212#571
I've been told by art people here that the NY Times chief critic, Michael Kimmelman, who tried to vaporized the artist (and for all that one sees in print in New York) has succeeded in doing so, has so much power that artists, curators and gallery people here dare criticize him in public.
Perhaps it's just American indifference. Either way, it's very sad for us all, especially as we watch our republic being destroyed.
I have also written a letter to the Times, and I will post it's equivalent tomorrow on my own site, when I'm sure they will not be printing it.
Rob reageerde op 21 december 2002 om 18:32 uur. I'm witholding my own thoughts for now, partly because I haven't finished assembling them yet.
Why bother us then? Make up your mind. You sound a bit like your president. Has to think very hard on just about anything more complex than breakfast.
Sjaak Bonestaak reageerde op 21 december 2002 om 19:21 uur. I think criticism is what everybody, and especially governements need. I don't believe that everybody can help himsle fout without being told what's wrong or right. It is indeed a shame that the American people seem so indifferent.
However, I find it very hard to believe that they all are the same. You are one of the people who find media like this website and your own very important. So there must be an audience that stands up for acts like these, and realise that it can be different, too.
Websites always need time to promote themselves and to develop a good number of visitors. Just hang on and keep the good work coming!
Smaarten reageerde op 21 december 2002 om 20:12 uur. Say it through your keyboard with www.ballenbak.net!
James Arthur Wagner reageerde op 22 december 2002 om 01:48 uur. To Rob:
I'm sorry if I'm "bother"ing you.
Of course I've made my mind up. I have been talking this up to everyone I meet and will, as I just wrote, post more tomorrow. My idea was to encourage independent thought and responses from people on my weblog--without intimidating them with my own rage.
I am an activist and I have been arrested for civil disobedience for a number of issues ignored by our governments and their satisfied subjects. Art has not yet been one of those issues.
My current project involves a symbol of protest myself and others, including artists, call the Blue Button Project. www.bluebutton.info
As for the man described as our president is concerned, we regard him as a profound embarassment not only to ourselves but to the entire species. He is an absolute idiot and his handlers are greedy criminals who have hijacked the republic. Yes there are many other Americans who are outraged by a regime which can only relate to the outside world with violence and which is eager to destroy human liberties here and throughout the planet, but there are not enough, and there probably won't be enough to save us, and you, in time.
I have been terribly disappointed in the politeness and the seriousness with which all foreign governments, and even most of the foreign media, relate to this idiot and this junta. I cannot expect you to save us from these criminals, but I had expected you to both see and treat them all as what they are.
Erik (Sjaak B.) reageerde op 22 december 2002 om 11:23 uur.
James Arthur Wagner reageerde op 23 december 2002 om 02:25 uur. Ok. It's done. For those still interested, I've posted my take on Clinton Boisvert's "FEAR" project and the uproar it provoked here.
http://www.jameswagner.com/index.php?m=200212#574
Rob reageerde op 23 december 2002 om 12:14 uur. Well, at l(e)ast you committed yourself. On the other hand making art that you know to be provocative is always accompanied with certain risk. In Iran you would by now be buried up to your knees in sand, facing a stoning squad. For the same reason. By the way they arrested a guy on the Niagara Falls for crossing the border illegaly as part of a stunt. He had done so as Santaclaus for the last 18 years. Now he got booked. You guys are really showing your resolve there! (And total lack of either brains or sense of humor).
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