| Eric Kluitenberg on Tue, 20 Mar 2001 01:05:46 +0100 |
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| Re: Syndicate: Next 5 Minutes |
Dear all, Having been closely involved with the last edition of Next 5 Minutes, and still being Amsterdam-based, I feel I should at least react to Andreas, but still cannot resolve the mystery completely.. [email protected] wrote: >>Is there going to be a Next 5 Minutes festival this year? Does anyone know? and Andreas Broeckmann wrote: >interesting question - though the next n5m year is 2002 (3-year cycle after >1993/96/99) >calling amsterdam ... --------------- The general formula as I understood it at the time, was that Next 5 Minutes would only be organised when there is a clear need to organise it. On the question wether such a need exists, the answer should invariably be that this is not the case until such time that the decision is made to organise it... Currently I do not believe there is an immediate initiative to organise another edition of Next 5 Minutes in Amsterdam, and it is even more unlikely that it will be organised anywhere else. My personal opinion is that Next 5 Minutes should not be organised again, but should remain a monument, a mythology almost. As a perpetually dormant (but not dead) structure it can inspire coutnless follow-up activities that neither are nor are called Next 5 Minutes, but do tap into the ideas and the energies behind the event. I remember when I first encountered the N5M phenomenon as a mere visitor in 1996 the sheer maniacal energy was a wounderfull kick. More than anything it seemed that N5M and *tactical media* was about an attitude: towards media, towards art, towards politics, towards culture. For me it seems most productive that a multitude of events and structures can inherit this energy and attitude, and continuously reinvent what *tactical media* means. Still it does not preclude that in the end another Next 5 Minutes might yet happen, whenever... (certainly not this year..) grtngs, eric :)