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If you're inclined to think that a strong and unified Europe, acting as a counterweight to the world's single remaining superpower, is essential to global stability, especially if that superpower has been run by neoconservative idealogues for several years running now, you've got a couple of options. You can write a boring article (as I have all too often), sing a song, make a movie, paint a painting.

Or, far better, you can hijack the very language and methods, the look and feel of that superpower's most potent cultural export, Hollywood, as artists 0100101110101101.ORG have done so brilliantly with United We Stand, currently on view at the Postmasters gallery in New York, online and in the streets of Berlin, Brussels and Barcelona.

Via Anthony Kaufman, who has a full introduction to the work, concluding, "if the project gains enough momentum, who knows, maybe Ewan and Penelope will actually get the film greenlit. I, for one, would pay to see it."

Posted by dwhudson at December 19, 2005 12:24 PM