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WARDAK PROVINCE

Posted by Joe Edit on December 28, 2008 12:31 am

WARDAK PROVINCE Afghanistan
The artful Taliban have once again pulled off a cultural coup d'etat.
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Joe Edit
"so execute me!"

4 Comments

Comment by Joe Edit
December 28, 2008 1:01 am
oh by the way, congrats on your herculaneum efforts Curt. now..., if you could only get involved...
 
Comment by Joe Edit
December 28, 2008 1:54 am
if only Damian Hirst was as couragous as Zakia Zaki
then western art could claim relevance
as it is..., a glass bead game
of no social consequence
of little use to anyone , anywhere
 
Comment by h
December 31, 2008 2:39 pm
hmm... artideas... make oblique propagandic posters for the taliban and hire blackwater to paste them around afghani villages, tape the cultural response?? is it too much of a cliche to film reaction in this age... live webcams?
 
 

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