US Department of Art & Technology
Washington, DC
Office of the Press Secretary, [email protected]
For Immediate Release: August 25, 2005
REPORTAGE FROM THE AESTHETIC EDGE OF CRAWFORD TEXAS
SITUATIONAL TOUR COMPLETED
AUGUST 18 - 25, 2005
http://www.usdat.us/secretary
CRAWFORD, Texas - The US Department of Art & Technology announces the
completion of the SITUATIONAL TOUR, Reportage from the Aesthetic Edge
of Crawford Texas, August 18 - 25, now on view at the Department Web
site - http://www.usdat.us/secretary
US DAT Secretary-at-Large Randall M. Packer, accompanied by Under
Secretary of the Bureau for Transformation, Yauger, traveled to the
Texan flatlands to report on the ongoing saga of America's Mom, Cindy
Sheehan, and her challenge to the President. However, when Sheehan
departed, the Department re-tooled its mission and focused its
critical eye on the dusty little town of Crawford, where battle lines
have been drawn and a War declared on the Left.
The SITUATIONAL TOUR surveys the surreal landscape of the President's
Home Town, where a counter-offensive to the Sheehan Camp has been
staged - the planting of the first cross at Fort Qualls, the new
Republican stronghold. Gary Qualls, backed up by a legion of fired-up
locals on horseback, a posse of Christian bikers who ride for the
President, and a tolling Liberty Bell flanked by the Ten
Commandments, defiantly declared, "how dare you bring your pitiful
and unjust protest into my backyard of Texas and the front yard of
President George W. Bush."
US DAT employed its state-of-the-art communications system to provide
complete multimedia coverage of the Civil War that has emerged in
Crawford. The SITUATIONAL TOUR, Reportage from the Aesthetic Edge of
Crawford Texas, is a segment in the ongoing series, "A Season in
Hell" the Department's declaration of these perilous times in
post-apocalyptic America.
Visit the US DAT Web site to view the Secretary-at-Large's
Blog-Chronicles; the Media Deconstruction Kit, live manipulation of
Fox News; Scorched Audio, weekly, podcasted sonic commentary; and the
Revolution of Everyday Life, cellular reportage, in which the
revolution is being forged constantly in the everyday clandestiny of
acts and dreams.
US Department of Art & Technology
A Season in Hell
http://www.usdat.us/secretary
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