Hi everybody. We just posted a new episode - it’s supposedly about museums, but actually it’s also an introduction to the ideological nature of all cultural institutions. This is the first episode where Kim does the presentation and I’m guessing it’ll be most popular with our friends in cultural studies, museum studies, studio arts, and other stuff like that. We’ll be doing some follow-up episodes in the future on this subject-area, for now we just wanted to make a small opening. Here it is:

http://www.pinkyshow.org/archives/episodes/081108_museums/

Also, I wanted to point out that we made a free, downloadable poster that goes along with the episode. If you want it, you can retrieve it (it’s a PDF file) from the We Love Museums… entry in the episode archives list:

http://www.pinkyshow.org/archives/archivesdate.html

We’ve got a lot of stuff going on around here, please check back often as several of our episodes are entering the final stages of production and we’ll be posting them as we finish them.

“Have you hugged your animal friends today?”

- Bunny

The Pinky Show website was hacked yesterday. Bunny set to work right away and got things back to normal so our website is once again free from malicious code.

But for all PC users, if you visited us yesterday or today (November 11 or November 12), it is possible that your computer may have been infected with a trojan virus. As a precaution, Bunny recommends that you scan and protect your computer with an up-to-date anti-virus program.

This is not the first time people have tried to forcibly shut us down and I’m sure it won’t be the last. But like I said last time, it’s not possible to stop cats from doing something once we’ve set our minds to it. All attempts to silence us will ultimately fail.

~ Pinky, Bunny, Mimi & Kim

1. Almost a year and a half ago we received an invitation to participate in a series of debates and an accompanying exhibition on global practices in radical education. Well what seemed so far away before has now finally arrived and Pinky, Daisy, and I will fly to Slovenia this coming Monday (Nov. 24) to participate in the events; Kim & Mimi will stay behind and water the plants, feed the ants, etc. The program was organized by the Radical Education Collective (Slovenia) and the exhibition will be held at the gallery Škuc in Ljubljana. The talks will include representatives from education groups from all over: Contra Filé (Brazil), Dostje!, H.I.J.O.S. (Guatemala), La Lleca (Mexico), Radical Education, Section for Latin America, Social Center Rog, Universidad Nómada, Zampa di Leone (Serbia), Albert Heta (Kosova), Agon Hamza (Kosova), Hajrudin Hromadžić, Helena Popović, and us. From the curatorial statement:

“There is no silence, we are here to speak. About memories that give us strength to organize social struggles. About networks that move into new territories. About art as experience and experiment. About cultural hybrids and political mutants. About practices of freedom and about different social relations.”

We are going to Slovenia to share and learn, I’m sure we’ll return with many new ideas for the future. Pinky will take notes and give a report when we get back. We will be there for six days of dialogue/work, I think we might also have one day to relax and sight-see around Ljubljana. Assuming all goes according to plan, we will be back home on December 5.

2. Any orders placed in our online store between Nov. 24 and Dec. 5 will be mailed out as soon as we return from Slovenia. Mimi & Kim don’t know how to do that stuff.

3. One of the objectives of our Pinky Show project is to create materials that teachers can use to encourage meaningful dialogue and reflection in their classes. To this end, I finally got around to making & posting downloadable PDF versions of the globalization cartoons, the museum poster, and so on. This makes using them as handouts easier. They are scattered throughout the Pinky Show archives. We hope you find them useful.

- Bunny