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Going to prison for art!
 
 
The third week
 
 
 
 
    
      monday, april 3rd 2000 >>> day 15
       
 
What do    Friedrich  Dürrenmatt
   and    Max Frisch
(two famous 
Swiss authors)
 
say on the
 
 
    case ???
 
 
 
 
 
 
  
    tuesday, april  4th 2000 >>> day 16
     
 
2nd visiting-day in the airport prison. The prisoned artist Seelenlos is allowed to see visitors once a week for 1 hour. Every 2 weeks he's allowed to make a phonecall for 10 minutes. 
 
"Somehow also a strange feeling to see someone and you know afterwards he will go back outside again , while you're led back to your cell. Probably one of the reasons why visits are allowed anyway. Sadest are the fingerprints of little children on the other side of the glass. Some of the others staying here almost for a year always saw their wife and kids through the glass, out of "reasons of prison security", blablabla, you know. Despite not having much in common with family fathers, i can not forget this picture since: Little children crawling up the glass screaming: "Papa! Papa!", while Papa presses his hands against the glass. If that doesn't make you cry, guess there are no more tears left anyway."(aus: Brief 9 vom 30.03.00)  
 
 
 
 
 
 
      
    wednesday, 5th april 2000 >>> day 17
     
2 x 2 letters in the mail, one day too late. (Brief 9 vom 30.03.00  , Brief 10 vom 31.03.00  , Brief 11 vom 01.04.00   , Brief 12 vom 02.04.00) including a late April fool's trick. Finally we get insight into every day life in the airport prison: they allocated Seelenlos as only Swiss citizen and difficult special-client a single-cell and allowed his free occupation. Stories of contact with other prisoners that get under your skin ("According to the majority, i'm in Ex-Jugoslavia here.") Details about the 3 attractions in the secured courtyard, about the weekly cell-cleaning-day with interesting observations concearning the subject: "This is no red-beet-juice!" and how guards shorten their night shift. Witness now! 
  
Because of not yet arrived visitor leaflet of private penal institution Urdorf / Zurich (Bitte um Zusendung von Hausordnung "Normalvollzug" / Besuchermerkblatt Vollzugszentrum Urdorf vom 25.03.00), Arger calls them on the spot. And what a surprise: The administrator Mr Egger himself is on the phone and makes a quarter hour for a friendly chat. From his point of view i have no more right for a visitor leaflet because Seelenlos doesn't stay anymore in his institution. I carry the suspicion that there doesn't exist such a leaflet (or does it?), but for him the whole thing is over. I don't understand why the hell he doesn't want to hand me this leaflet, but nevertheless we have a friendly chat about transparence in penal system. He reveals that he thinks www.blutgeil.com is super. As a memory for his inauguration (he is in charge only since 3 months) he asked for fotos of our performance ("Bloodbath in Urdorf!!!") 
 
 
 
 
 
    
    thursday, 6th april 2000 >>> day 18
     
"Buy yourself free!" in the special prison (vgl Brief 13 vom 05.04.00 
  
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
    friday, april  7th 2000 >>> day 19
     
Action in the special prison: letter-censorship, no weekly-shopping without cheat and pissed-off foreigners (Briefzensur, "Kein Wocheneinkauf ohne Beschiss" und schikanierte Ausländer (vgl Brief 14 vom 06.04.00))  

All friends of bad taste receive newsletter democracy for the advanced Part VII, Chapter 5. According to latest rumours a foreign TV-Station is looking for a interview-date with the prisoned artist Seelenlos. What will be the administrator's decision? Will he put a limit to freedom of the media? Have a bet!   

 
 
 
 
 
     
    saturday, april 8th >>> day 20
      
 

Again 2 letters of Seelenlos in the mail (Brief 13 vom 05.04.00, Brief 14 vom 06.04.00). The one should have arrived yesterday while the other is stamped in Winterthur (?). Where the hell do they drive around their mail?   

 
 
 
 
 
     
    sunday, april 9th 2000 >>> day 21
     
  
Hot tip for all friends of inhuman movies: 
Uncensored! Hardcore! Ultraviolence!
Reglementation for district prisons   
Verordnung über die Bezirksgefängnisse
Reglementation for the airport prison  
Verordnung über das Flughafengefängnis
  
  
  
 
 
 
 
 
  S  E  Q  U  E  L: 
 The fourth week
 
 
 
 
 ART 
                               IN 
            JAIL  
                       Part 4
 

 
 

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