http://babalan.kibla.org/bp | 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.

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