SpamTakeAway

Freiraum MuseumsQuatier 5uper.net 2003

A pritner is installed in the middel of a cabinet. It hangs right in the middle of this space. In realtime when a spam mail arrives in the himself@tompeak.com inbox, it will be printed out. The paper is falling to the ground. There are 5-30 Spam mails per hour. The floor is covered with printed spam content. I invited the visitors to the one print with them, as it was my Idea for a Spam TakeAway.

Spam TakeAway

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Wishes

are packed in

commercials

. Does spam contain

secret

wishes

of

humankind

?
This is one question I want to ask.
The differece to normal direct mailing that we get every day is that e-mails are

delivered silently

. This gives the oportunity to offer us things we normaly don't dare to ask for, except you go to special stores. The other thing is, if there would be no

business

with e.g. with pills, theses companys wouldn't send us these offers. It's not a secret that many people take medice for better concentration and stabilisation of the biological mechanism.

Do we

need

want

this

really

?

< - -Well, it is Spam, what you mean?
Are we only

biocomputers

which need some

extension

to be happy or to survive in our

"performance society"?

Well I think, there is nothing wrong with

"upgrading"

your body with pills when your are

sick

, they administer you

drugs

anyway. But is there a spiritual way to upgrate ourself? Maybe Yoga helps us to concentrate better or Tai Chi adds us better energy for whatever ...

Another

aspect is the value system in a society context, where perfomace is everything. In much manners.