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Funding Unsuccessful This project reached the deadline without achieving its funding goal on June 1, 2012.
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Jun 1, 2012
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- First created · 2 backed
- Nathaniel Katz 561 friends
- Website: curandikatz.net
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Thank you! Come visit us at the library, we'd love to thank you in person.
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Your very own Pacifist Library card.
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A copy of a survey for intentional communities originally created by Toma Sik and appropriated by us for the exhibition thisPLACE in Venice, Italy. You will also receive the library card.
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You just bought a book for the library! we will write your name as the donor inside of one book (of your choice, or we'll choose). You will also receive the survey and library card.
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The first publication of the Pacifist Library, a short pamphlet on the life of Toma Sik as told by his friends in a series of interviews conducted by us. We'll also send you the survey and library card and write your name in a book.
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The first publication of the Pacifist Library, a short pamphlet on the life of Toma Sik as told by his friends in a series of interviews conducted by us. Accompanied by a CD with the actual interviews (edited). We'll also send you the survey and library card and write your name in a book.
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A silkscreen printed poster from our "New Natives" project featuring a call for community in Italian (originally produced as a commission for ilCatalogo). You will also receive the library card, survey, name in a book, pamphlet and CD
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A portfolio of 4 silkscreen printed posters from our "New Natives" project featuring calls for community in Italian (originally produced as a commission for ilCatalogo). You will also receive the library card, survey, name in a book, pamphlet and CD
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A limited edition block printed poster from our "New Natives" project featuring a call for community in Italian (originally produced for the exhibition thisPLACE in Venice, Italy). Signed and numbered (edition of 25) You will also receive the library card, survey, name in a book, pamphlet and CD
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A limited edition block printed poster from our "New Natives" project featuring a call for community in Italian (originally produced for the exhibition thisPLACE in Venice, Italy). Signed and numbered (edition of 25). A portfolio of 4 silkscreen printed posters from our "New Natives" project featuring calls for community in Italian (originally produced as a commission for ilCatalogo). You will also receive the library card, survey, name in a book, pamphlet and CD
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A portrait of Toma Sik, graphite on paper (38cm X 50cm). Created by us. Includes a certificate of authenticity. You will also receive the library card, survey, name in a book, pamphlet and CD
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Toma Sik ritual rug, an embroidered felt wall hanging (60 cm X 80cm) telling the story of Toma Sik. Two original pieces created by us. Includes a certificate of authenticity. You will also receive the library card, survey, name in a book, pamphlet and CD
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Toma Sik nomadic door hanging (80cm X150cm), an embroidered felt text telling the story of Toma Sik through the words of his friend Uri Davis. Original work created by us. Includes a certificate of authenticity. A limited edition block printed poster from our "New Natives" project featuring a call for community in Italian (originally produced for the exhibition thisPLACE in Venice, Italy). Signed and numbered. A portfolio of 4 silkscreen printed posters from our "New Natives" project featuring calls for community in Italian (originally produced as a commission for ilCatalogo). You will also receive the library card, survey, name in a book, pamphlet and CD
Estimated delivery: Aug 2012
Creator Marco Landi on May 28, 2012
Please keep posting poems ! I like them ! And i love your project !
Creator Valentina Curandi and Nathaniel Katz on May 13, 2012
Daily poem from The Pacifist LIbrary:
TO THE UNNAMED BUDDHIST NUN WHO BURNED HERSELF TO DEATH ON THE NIGHT OF JUNE 3, 1966/ Diane Di Prima
Outside your temple wall. Stone or wood, I can't
quite see the detail; under this last full moon
which I did see. Moon of this June, unearthly light
heavy with potency, the air filled with the smells
and buzzing of springtime.
you with your shaved head and can
of kerosene. Under what driving form
of ecstacy? I pray to taste it once
your soaked robe chilly in the spring night wind
–Oh nun, is it hot in there?
–Only a stupid person like yourself would ask
such a question.
Creator Valentina Curandi and Nathaniel Katz on May 10, 2012
Daily quote from The Pacifist Library:
Anti-War Poem/ Ted Berrigan
It's New Year's Eve, of 1968, & a time
for Resolution.
I don't like Engelbert Humperdinck.
I love The Incredible String Band.
The War goes on
& war is shit.
I'll sing you a December song.
It's 5 below zero in Iowa City tonight.
This year I found a warm room
That I could go to
be alone in
& never have to fight.
I didn't live in it.
I thought a lot about dying
but I said Fuck it.
Creator Valentina Curandi and Nathaniel Katz on May 7, 2012
Daily quote from The Pacifist Library (by way of Alex Sampson... thanks!)
"In a world built on violence, one must be a revolutionary before one can be a pacifist."
-A.J. Muste
Creator Valentina Curandi and Nathaniel Katz on May 6, 2012
Daily quote from The Pacifist Library:
People in My Family/ Grace Paley
In my family
people who were eighty-two were very different
from people who were ninety-two
The eighty-two-year-old people grew up
it was 1914
this is what they knew
WarWorld WarWar
That's why when they speak to the child
they say
poor little one . . .
The ninety-two-year-old people remember
it was the year 1905
they went to prison
they went into exile
they said ah soon
When they speak to the grandchild
they say
yes there will be revolution
then there will be revolutionthen
once more then the earth itself
will turn and turn and cry outoh I
have been made sick
then you my little bud
must flower and save it
Creator Valentina Curandi and Nathaniel Katz on May 5, 2012
Daily quote from The Pacifist LIbrary:
"It is not by reason alone that wars can be prevented, but by a positive life of impulses and passions antagonistic to those that lead to war."
–Bertrand Russell
Creator Valentina Curandi and Nathaniel Katz on May 4, 2012
Daily quote from The Pacifist Library:
“When an individual is protesting society's refusal to acknowledge his dignity as a human being, his very act of protest confers dignity on him.”
–Bayard Rustin quote
Creator Valentina Curandi and Nathaniel Katz on May 3, 2012
Daily quote from The Pacifist Library:
"A liberation movement that is nonviolent sets the oppressor free as well as the oppressed. "
- Barbara Deming