  local hour of a global intervention lokalna ura globalne intervencije initiators | iniciatorja Martina Ruhsam & Vlado G. Repnik Blank_Protest is the cause for remembering past protests as well as for realizing and contriving present and future ones. It is a walk with decontextualised and emptied banners that carry the content through emptiness itself. Protests without demands and slogans are an anomaly in the dictionary of political jargon; they undermine watchwords and bring the act of protesting to the edge of its meaning. Walking with blank transparents as a way of recycling history remains a paradoxical gesture of authorizing and empowering oneself. In a time when demonstrators can be hired through the internet and a mass of people moves when the cameras start to roll on, demonstrations are intricately intertwined with the media spectacle of business, visiblity and global simplification. When the slogans are covered with white colour and the transparents are held up in silence – the ultimate multiple protest can start: on the street, in the net, in your mind, in their hands. Blank_Protest is absolutely local – in many places and hands. Blank_Protest je povod za spominjanje bivših primerov protestov in za realizacijo in zamišljanje sedanjih in prihodnjih. Je sprehod z dekontekstualiziranimi in izpraznjenimi transparenti, ki prinašajo vsebino prav skozi izpraznjenost samo. Demonstracije brez zahtev in parol, so motnja v slovnici političnih pomenov, miniranje reprezentativnih gesel vodi demonstrativni akt na mejo njegovega smisla. Sprehod z belimi transparenti kot načinom recikliranja zgodovine, je preostanek paradoksalne geste avtoriziranja in pooblaščanja. V času, ko je kamera vklopljena, je demonstracija dovršeno vtkana v posel medijskega spektakla, vidljivosti in globalne simplifikacije. Ko so parole prebeljene in so transparenti dvignjeni v tišini, se ultimativno mnogovrsten protest lahko začne: na ulici, na medmrežju, v tvojih mislih, v njihovih rokah. Blank_Protest je absolutno lokalen – v mnogih mestih in rokah. BLANK_PROTEST INTERVENTIONS, EXHIBITIONS AND PUBLICATIONS January 2007 Blank_Protest 1st intervention by Repnik & Ruhsam Times Square, New York City, USA 5 April 2008 2nd intervention European workers Euro–demonstration, Ljubljana, SI 23 August – 20 Sep 2008 3rd intervention & 1st exhibition 30 blank transparents, 5 pictures and a mute speech in Ljubljana special guest: Jorge Sánchez-Chiong co-produced by: City Museum of Ljubljana, Mladi Levi International Festival SI Press: - Mladina - Delo - Dnevnik 4 July – 1 September 2009 2nd exhibition Koroška Gallery of Fine Arts, Slovenj Gradec, SI 2011 Blank_Protest photo as a book cover Martin Balluch: Widerstand in der Demokratie Winter 2012 Igor Štromajer: 0–M=5 $i On the project Blank_Protest; Maska Journal, Gestures of Resistance, Vol. XXVII, No. 151–151 January – June 2013 3rd exhibition MSUM Museum of Contemporary Art Metelkova | group exhibition The Present and Presence: Repetition 3 - The Street | curated by Zdenka Badovinac, Bojana Pikur, Igor Španjol 8 February 2013 4th intervention, Ljubljana 3rd Slovene Uprising, demonstrations, Ljubljana SI 2013 Blank_Protest photo in Performance Research Magazine Bojana Kunst: Performance Research, London, UK # Blank_Protest is produced by GVR babaLAN Contemporary Arts Institute  Igor Štromajer on the project Blank_Protest 0–M=5 $i I. 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