The Book of Rage and Longing seeks to create a democratic plane where voices of desire, emotion, and critical engagement can initiate a dialogue with the origins of Western democracy.

Several on-going letters of sincerity from the United States and around the globe are sent to the ancient center of Athens. Writers are asked to express their passionate dismay, their poignant pleas, their will and affirmation for a different administration of our dimension. In keeping with the idea of democracy and a heterogeneous blend of voices, those desiring to participate need only log on to the Rage and Longing site to send their personal missive. Our hope is that the accumulation of these missives addressed to the global power elite may begin to describe rage and nightmares, produce psychic seeds for cross-fertilization, and share hopeful musings.

In Athens, these multiple thoughts/voices, arriving through an online interface, are projected inside the Byzantine Museum. As each missive arrives, it is immediately printed and an interpretive/administrative committee edits together an official text - a new agenda created on the spot through arguing, editing, cutting, pasting, and whimsy. This is made into a large, “canonized” book. Sections of the official text are then given to a Greek chorus to sing. This amplified song of rage and longing fills the area.