You’re Projecting!
A Moroccan-French artist in Toulouse designed a display in which verses of the Koran were projected on the sidewalk. One night, due to a technical glitch, the projector was turned on when no “mediators” were present, so that no one was there to warn infidel passers-by not to step on the sacred verses.
You can imagine the reaction. Fortunately, cooler heads prevailed, and no one was killed or seriously hurt, although there were reports that a kafir woman got slapped for her blasphemous footwork.
The story in French is here.
Many thanks to Michael Laudahn for translating this video, and to Vlad Tepes for the subtitling:
A slightly revised transcript is below:
| 00:00 | …but let’s start talking about the incident which occurred last night at the Printemps | |
| 00:04 | Septembre Toulouse [festival name], an artist’s installation projects | |
| 00:08 | Koranic verses on the ground. Problem: Moslems have not accepted that | |
| 00:12 | passers-by are walking over them. — Dear Madam, considering that the exposition | |
| 00:16 | conditions of my oeuvre are not met, I urge you | |
| 00:20 | to suspend it. — The decision has been taken. 24 hours after the incident, | |
| 00:24 | the artist has decided to partially revise his oeuvre. The | |
| 00:28 | projectors which are installed on the lamp posts along the Pont-Neuf will be demounted, so no more | |
| 00:32 | Koranic verses projected on the ground, the projection will be made against façades. — | |
| 00:36 | This is a decision made by the artist, his choice, his oeuvre belongs to him. I find it | |
| 00:40 | a pity that this incident has created | |
| 00:44 | tensions, I find it a pity. — Yesterday | |
| 00:48 | before 2 [am], a technical problem triggered inadvertently the projection. | |
| 00:52 | Consequence: No mediators present as originally planned, | |
| 00:56 | in order to explain the artist’s oeuvre, and nobody there to demand that passers-by not | |
| 01:00 | step on it. One woman paid the price, [don’t quite understand what he says — according to the press, | |
| 01:04 | she was slapped in the face by Mohammedans for stepping on it]. Rapidly, | |
| 01:08 | some sixty persons assembled to denounce the blasphemy committed against the prophet. | |
| 01:12 | No confrontation with the forces of order, nor any arrests, | |
| 01:17 | but a palpable tension in the quarter. The imam who arrived on site | |
| 01:21 | to calm down the spirits was welcomed at the mayor’s office, this afternoon. — | |
| 01:25 | What is your message to the youngsters and the | |
| 01:29 | quarters which have remained calm… — That they remain calm, because there is nothing | |
| 01:33 | special, nothing malign, nothing… — | |
| 01:37 | This is not a provocation, | |
| 01:41 | this is an accident. — The oeuvre’s author, Mounir Fatmi, of Moroccan origin, | |
| 01:45 | says he is disconsolate about this incident. His revised oeuvre | |
| 01:49 | will be projected on Friday… |
2012-10-05 13:22:03
Source: http://gatesofvienna.blogspot.com/2012/10/youre-projecting.html
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