[NetBehaviour] Finsbury Park attack

Mon Jun 19 13:20:57 CEST 2017

Dears,

have been immediately thinking of you there upon reading the news.
It is (unfortunately) unsurprising, and yet worrying how things are
developing, and surely UK political instability is not helping.

During my many years living in the UK I have witnessed several instances of
vile intimidation, aggression and the like towards "other" others,
increasingly so in my last years there 2014-2015. Imho, what is problematic
now is how easily people turn words into even worst action. It is a form of
emboldened authority they borrow from useless and mindless propaganda.

That said, I still remain shocked by the Grenfell Tower atrocity and send
energies that way as well.... Another symptomatic nightmare of London
inhumanity of the few towards the many.

--
Marco Donnarumma, Ph.D.

*Performing bodies, sound and machinesUniversität der Künste Berlin*
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> From: Annie Abrahams <bram.org at gmail.com>
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> Love
>
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> Le 19 juin 2017 11:20, "AGF poemproducer" <agf at poemproducer.com> a ?crit :
>
> > yes love from Berlin!!!!
> >
> >
> > On 19 Jun 2017, at 11:08, Renee Turner <geuzen at xs4all.nl> wrote:
> >
> > Thinking of you all in the Finsbury Park community, and London as it goes
> > through these trying times.
> >
> > with warmth,
> >
> > Renee
> >
> > On Jun 19, 2017, at 10:51 AM, Steven Ball <steven at steven-ball.net>
> wrote:
> >
> > Working at Furtherfield last I spent quite a bit of time in Finsbury
> Park.
> > My impression was of a lively, ethnically and religiously diverse place
> > where people and communities rubbed up against each other pretty well.
> Kind
> > of rough around the edges, but that comes with the territory, very
> > much like my own 'hood in Deptford, South London.
> >
> > It's not clear whether the perpetrators were from the area, I suspect
> not,
> > but we'll probably find out sooner or later.
> >
> > The police are treating it as a terrorist incident, and it's clearly a
> > direct attack on a group of Muslims. It's shocking but unfortunately not
> > altogether surprising that something like this might happen, given the
> > constant drip of Islamophobia in the media, in The Sun, the Daily Mail,
> > the Daily Express, by individuals such as Nigel Farage and Katie Hopkins,
> > political parties such as UKIP and EDL, a pernicious racism pervades.
> There
> > is also currently a dysfunctional systemic failure at state level to be
> > able to cope with even the most basis of governmental functions. It's
> > difficult to shake the impression that this country, and London in
> > particular, is in some form of terminal meltdown right now.
> >
> > But communities persist, ties strengthen, and solidarity is forged in
> such
> > emergencies. Furtherfield isn't parachuted in like so many so-called
> > socially engaged art projects often are, it is an established and
> > integral part of its local community, so I can understand the shock waves
> > that this attack must be causing. More strength to you!
> >
> > Steven x
> >
> >
> > On Mon, Jun 19, 2017 at 09:21, ruth catlow <ruth.catlow at furtherfield.org
> >
> > wrote:
> >
> > Thanks for asking Alan.
> >
> > This attack happened last night at Finsbury Park Mosque which is about
> 100
> > yards from Furtherfield Commons.
> >
> > Some people drove a van into a group of late night worshippers as they
> > left the mosque. One of the attackers was apprehended and held by the
> group
> > until the police arrived.
> >
> > Last year Park Theatre (local partners of ours) commissioned a playwrite
> > to worked directly with the mosque to produce the Hurling Rubble
> > <https://www.timeout.com/london/theatre/hurling-rubble-
> at-the-moon-hurling-rubble-at-the-sun>
> > plays about how extremist violence grows. We hosted our Superdiversity
> > exhibition
> > <http://furtherfield.org/programmes/superdiversity-
> picturing-finsbury-park>
> > this spring in which Katherine Stansfeld an artist and cultural
> geographer
> > brought together more than 50 different perspectives of lives lived in
> the
> > area. This area is bold in its expression of difference - its value and
> its
> > difficulties - we love it.
> >
> > We have yet to hear from our local friends. I'm heading up there now -
> > full of sorrow.
> >
> > ~
> > Ruth
> >
> >
> > On 19/06/17 03:44, Alan Sondheim wrote:
> >
> >
> >
> > Please please share any information anyone might have about this,
> > apparently on Seven Sisters Road. This is terrible...
> >
> > Thank you,
> >
> > Alan
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> Hi Steve & all,
>
> Thank you for your generous support and understanding of what it's like
> working in the Finsbury Park area.
>
> >Furtherfield isn't parachuted in like so many so-called socially engaged
> art projects often are, it is an established
> >and integral part of its local community, so I can understand the shock
> waves that this attack must be causing.
>
> You're of course right Steve, this is a social reality which separates us
> from the more established media art groups, galleries, and academia. And
> we've been working with all kinds of people here since 2004.
>
> The mosque is only about a 100 yards away from where we are working
> together in the park.
>
> We have noticed and experienced tensions here well before this incident,
> and this summer is surely going to bring us other challenges to deal with.
>
> My heart goes to to all suffering from these soulless and ignorant
> attacks, whoever they are - it's wrong and sadly the news media along with
> unsavory billionaires, and particular politicians, have stoked up a fire in
> order for the poor to fight each other and suffer even more pain, while
> they at a distance - collect the proceeds :-(
>
> Again,
>
> wishing all well
>
> marc
>
> Marc Garrett
>
> Co-Founder, Co-Director and main editor of Furtherfield.
> Art, technology and social change, since 1996
> http://www.furtherfield.org
>
> Furtherfield Gallery & Commons in the park
>
> Finsbury Park, London N4 2NQhttp://www.furtherfield.org/gallery
> Currently writing a PhD at Birkbeck University, London
> https://birkbeck.academia.edu/MarcGarrett
>
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