BRISBANE, AUSTRALIA CHAPTER ELECTION
GLOBAL PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION at THE WHITE HOUSE (part of the SOOB art festival)
You are invited to attend our first GE chapter election in Briabane Australia and meet with the delegates. To increase the transparency of this election, officials and general public are able to download the new Australia Chapter PowerPoint Presentation and a special Australia Chapter Official Voter Information Guide.
Opening night Friday August 18 6-9pm
Exhibition runs Thursday August 17 – Monday 21 August, 11am-6pm @ the White House
Below is the official press release:
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
August 18, 2006
GLOBAL PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION-
A historic opportunity for international participation in Global Domination
INTRODUCTION:
Global Presidential Election enables you to vote for a global leader from a pool of fourteen dictators using a voting system based upon the model of American democracy. The goal of this project is to examine the rhetoric surrounding America’s favorite buzzword, Democracy. With the current state of international relationships both economically and politically seeing power struggles and consolidation in the form of inequality and war, we have created an installation/performance/website in the form of mock elections that asks much needed questions about the nature of the Democracy the West is so keen on selling.
ELECTION HIGHLIGHTS:
Global Presidential Election offers you different degrees of democracy to fit your specific needs:
- Fourteen candidates were chosen to ensure the global democracy- John Howard, George W Bush, Saddam Hussein, Ariel Sharon, Idi Amin, Pol Pot, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Silvio Berlusconi, to name a few.
- Voters are encouraged to write-in their own candidates.
- To make your vote more potent, for AUD $5 dollars Global Presidential Election will allow your one vote to count as five with our Voter Investment Center.
- Our Absentee Ballot Program subtracts two actual votes from candidates of your choice for only AUD $3.
- To make sure your votes are correctly counted, Global Presidential Election employs the official Bush VS Gore 2000 election voting system that includes the Official “Punch Card” voting booth from Collier County, Florida and the exact appropriation of the “Butterfly Ballot”.
HISTORY:
Global Elections was first conceived of in May 2003 as a project for a show at C.S.O.A. Cox 18, in Milan, Italy. At the time the United States government under the Bush administration had just raised its own method of terrorism, by escalating the threat of war to actual invasion, using the banner of Democracy, Freedom, and fear of “Mass Destruction” to further this agenda. The problems with this notion of Democracy, particularly in a time of aggressive global capitalism are manifold.
It is with this in mind that Global Elections was created to ask important questions about what is meant by the usage of a term that once implied a chance to participate in one’s own life. What can a vote change? What, and who are we allowed to vote for? Most importantly, what are the differences between individual interests and the interests of career politicians with strong ties to corporate lobbyists? (We may actually call them “sponsors” now).
Initially, Global Elections was executed as a performance. A voting pamphlet was printed with candidates selected from current, high profile heads of state, along side of some of the twentieth centuries most notorious “leaders”, and a situation was constructed where participants could vote. By careful selection of candidates, as well as accompanied by texts listing their “accomplishments”, it was intended to ask several, pointed questions about the nature of Democracy in it’s new configuration within an over all schema of global capitalism.
Since it’s launching as a performance, GE has taken to operating as a campaign. A website GlobalElection.org has been constructed with infrastructures, pages and contents that mirror many of those found owned and operated by the US government. Within these pages, texts have been placed that appropriates the actual language of these official sites, manipulated to reveal just where the logic of particular facts in today’s democracy leads. By functioning as performance, in conjunction with it’s placement as a form of internet activism, Global Elections does not seek to provide answers to the problems posited by the usage of the term, “democracy”, but to reveal it as the language of propaganda.
PREVIOUS GLOBAL ELECTIONS:
Multiverse 007, RX Gallery, San Francisco, U.S.A., October 2004
election result: Winner: Arnold Schwarzenegger, First runner-up: Pushy (write-in candidate), Second-runner-up: Joseph Stalin
NACHT DER BILDER I, HAU Hebbel Am Ufer, Berlin, Germany, October 2004
election result: Winner: Arnold Schwarzenegger, First runner-up: Slobodan Milosevic, Second-runner-up: Joseph Stalin
APAture 2004, Kearny Street Workshop, San Francisco, U.S.A., September 2004
election result: Winner: Arnold Schwarzenegger, First runner-up: Mao Tse-tung, Second-runner-up: Pol Pot
CHEAP, Shedhalle, Zürich, Switzerland, June 2004
election result: Winner: Slobodan Milosevic and Arnold Schwarzenegger (tie result)
Version04 Festival, Chicago, IL, USA, May 2004
election result: Winner: Arnold Schwarzenegger, First runner-up: Mao Tse-tung, Second-runner-up: John Lennon (write-in candidate)
.PUN Festival, C.S.O.A. COX 18, Milan, Italy, June 2003
election result: Winner: Mao Tse-tung, First runner-up: Benito Mussolini, Second-runner-up: Pol Pot
CONTACT INFO:
Globale Presidential Election is created by Kenneth Hung and Tim Blue with the generous help from Elisa Harkins and Graham Myhre.
Interviews and PR in the Americas and Asia-Pacific please contact:
Kenneth Hung
+1 (917) 378-2747
Interviews and PR in Europe please contact:
Tim Blue
Please also visit our official website Globalelection.org for more info.
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event: Straight Out Of Brisbane Festival
place: WHITE HOUSE, 358 George Street, Brisbane CBD, Queensland, Australia. Tel: 07) 3236 4488
More info: SOOB WHITE HOUSE
GLOBAL PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION- Berlin Chapter was interviewed by German TV station ARTE Deutschland TV GmbH. The event took place at Hebbel Am Ufer eins theatre in Berlin on October 4, 2004.
ANNOUNCEMENT OF REGIONAL GLOBAL PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION RESULTS:
Global Presidential Election announced the previous regional global elections results and released the official photo documentations of previous global elections on Saturday, 9th October 2004.
Full details of the results announcement and the reports can be viewed from our 'HISTORY" section.
SECOND SAN FRANCISCO CHAPTER ELECTION
GLOBAL PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION at MULTIVERSE (hosted by RX Galley)
Due to the massive amount of conservatives in San Francisco, a second GE San Francisco chapter election has been scheduled.
time: Thursday, October 7, 8pm-?
event: MULTIVERSE (curated by KURT BIGENHO), $5
place: RX Gallery, 132 Eddy Street @ Mason Street, San Francisco, CA 94102.
Tel: 415.474.7973
BERLIN CHAPTER ELECTION
GLOBAL ELECTIONS/GLOBAL CAPITALISM
04. Oktober
Hebbel Am Ufer eins
Stresemannstr. 29 Berlin
die Deutsch-Amerikanische gruppe CHEAP
(Asler/Blue/Hendrickson/Hung/Sachsse/Sautter/Siegel/Thorwart)
hat das Projekt Global Elections/Global Capitalism entwickelt, um das Bedürfnis der Weltbevölkerung zu befriedigen, in den Genuss von Amerikas größtem Export-Artikel – der Demokratie – zu kommen. Global Elections hat mehrere standhafte Führer der Weltgeschichte als Kandidaten für ein globales Reich der Demokratie sorgfältig ausgewählt. Das Publikum ist wahlberechtigt. All the facts, none of the flavor, eine romantische Komödie.
time: October 4, 7:30pm
event: NACHT DER BILDER I - METAPHERN DER KRISE IN HOLLYWOOD-FILMEN SEIT 9/11
place: Hebbel Am Ufer, Berlin, Germany
Tel: 030 259004 0
SAN FRANCISCO CHAPTER ELECTION
GLOBAL PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION at APATURE 2004 (hosted by Kearny Street Workshop)
You are invited to attend our first GE chapter election in the USA westcoast region and meet with the delegates.
time: Saturday, September 25, 1pm -1am
event: APAture Main Event, $15 ($12 in advance)
place: Kearny Street Workshop (KSW) is located in South of Market Cultural Center (SomArts) at 934 Brannan Street (between 8th and 9th Streets) San Francisco, California, 94103.
Tel: 415.503.0520 Fax: 415.503.0547
INVEST IN YOUR GOVERNMENT FOR A BETTER FUTURE!
USD $10 = 1,000 votes!
To make your vote more potent, for $10 dollars Global Presidential Election will allow your one vote to count as 1,000! Never before has such a value been placed on your vote. We at GE make this offer that both your vote AND your dollar counts.
VISIT OUR VOTERS INVESTMENT CENTER, BUY YOUR VOTES NOW! PARTICIPATE IN THE ULTIMATE FORM OF GLOBAL DEMOCRACY!
SUBTRACT OTHERS VOTES NOW! WE OPEN THE BACKDOOR OF DEMOCRACY JUST FOR YOU!
USD $2 = subtract 150 votes!
Democracy is about opening participation in power to anyone with money. At the same time, power is exclusive. Through voter disenfranchisement laws, various states have managed to exclude large segments of the population (see Florida and African Americans in the 2000 U.S. Presidential Election). What was not available then, but recently developed by our team here at Global Elections is a way for anyone with pocket change to purchase their way to power.
The Absentee Ballot Program subtracts 150 actual votes from candidates of your choice for only USD $2. This is the "backdoor" to Democracy, and where it merges most efficiently with Capitalism. Your two dollars, or four, or six, could prevent a wasteful genocide in Africa, while producing one in Europe, Asia, or America. Think about it, Vote Smart, Spend Smarter!
As of today Pol Pot is winning the Global Presidential Election with 46.15 % (36 votes).
For Immediate Release:
GLOBAL PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION, A historic opportunity for international participation in Global Domination.
INTRODUCTION:
Globalelection.org is the official website for Global Presidential Election- a voting project founded by Kenneth Hung and Tim Blue. Global Presidential Election enables you to vote for a global leader from a pool of thirteen dictators using a voting system based upon the model of American democracy. To make your vote more potent, in Global Presidential Election you are eligible to purchase and/ or subtract votes for your choice of global leader. For USD $10 dollars Global Presidential Election will allow your one vote to count as 1,000. Our Absentee Ballot Program subtracts 150 actual votes from candidates of your choice for only USD $2.
The goal of this project is to examine the rhetoric surrounding America's favorite buzzword, Democracy. With the current state of international relationships both economically and politically seeing power struggles and consolidation in the form of inequality and war, we have created an installation/performance/website in the form of mock elections that asks much needed questions about the nature of the Democracy the West is so keen on selling.
HIGHLIGHTS:
Resources available on the GlobalElection.org website include:
-Thirteen candidates were chosen to ensure the global democracy- George W Bush, Saddam Hussein, Ariel Sharon, Idi Amin, Pol Pot, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Silvio Berlusconi, to name a few.
-Voter are encouraged to write-in their own candidates.
-Voter can purchase 1000 votes for USD $10 and cast it to their favorite global leader.
-Voter can subtract 150 votes for their choice of leader for USD $2 with our Absentee Ballot program.
-Viewers can Download Powerpoint presentation and voting pamphlet and set up their own Global Election.
HISTORY:
Global Election was first conceived of in May 2003 as a project for a show at C.S.O.A. Cox 18, in Milan, Italy. At the time the United States government under the Bush administration had just raised it's own method of terrorism, by escalating the threat of war to actual invasion, using the banner of Democracy, Freedom, and fear of "Mass Destruction" to further this agenda. The problems with this notion of Democracy, particularly in a time of aggressive global capitalism are manifold.
It is with this in mind that Global Election was created to ask important questions about what is meant by the usage of a term that once implied a chance to participate in one's own life. What can a vote change? What, and who are we allowed to vote for? Most importantly, what are the differences between individual interests and the interests of career politicians with strong ties to corporate lobbyists? (We may actually call them "sponsors" now).
Initially, Global Election was executed as a performance. A voting pamphlet was printed with candidates selected from current, high profile heads of state, along side of some of the twentieth centuries most notorious "leaders", and a situation was constructed where participants could vote. By careful selection of candidates, as well as accompanied by texts listing their "accomplishments", it was intended to ask several, pointed questions about the nature of Democracy in it's new configuration within an over all schema of global capitalism.
Since it's launching as a performance, GE has taken to operating as a campaign. A website GlobalElection.org has been constructed with infrastructures, pages and contents that mirror many of those found owned and operated by the US government. Within these pages, texts have been placed that appropriates the actual language of these official sites, manipulated to reveal just where the logic of particular facts in today's democracy leads. By functioning as performance, in conjunction with it's placement as a form of internet activism, Global Elections does not seek to provide answers to the problems posited by the usage of the term, "democracy", but to reveal it as the language of propaganda.
Previous Global Elections:
C.S.O.A. COX 18, Milan, Italy
Shedhalle, Zurich, Switzerland
Version>04 Festival, Chicago, USA
Contact Info:
Interviews and PR please contact
Kenneth Hung
+1 (415) 606-6184
Interviews and PR in Europe please contact:
Tim BlueYou can also download a .pdf format of this press release at:
http://www.GlobalElection.org/downloads/pressrelease1.pdf
Official Photo Documentation:
Global Presidential Election- Chicago Chapter, May 1, 2004
Global Presidential Election- Italy Chapter, June 6-7, 2003
