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                                                      nuoc mam dirndl'n/buam +                                             
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    the cultural initiative  nuoc mam BUAM  founded in 1996 by 3 citizens of 
    Graz and afterwards mounted to  nuoc mam dirndl´N  has dedicated to a 
    multiculturalism of the world in general, Austria in particular and Graz 
    in special. Austria as cultural basement [´home´] serves as [ interim ] 
    starting point of the retrovisionary journey  to the world.
    therefore the Vietnamese-Austrian sub- und low-culture exchange project  
    hend'l [ chicken ] goes chim con cut [ quail ] was started in 1997 
    - Vietnam represents the longing for the strange / other of the satieted 
    affluent society. multiculturalism also means — at the face — establishin
    on the one hand the hidden / covered energy potentials of fringe groups 
    / minorities within assembling homogeneous culture groups - the strange 
    in and next to me , on the other hand intercultural and at the same time 
    rudimentary cultural phenomena dealing with basic needs and basic 
    conditions of humans and thus intercultural legible [ that means exchange 
    of substance, feeling, aso.] since 1997 clash-performances took place 
    therefore as Vietnamese ´interventions´with regional potentials in Austria.
    the following intentions under the metatitel hend'l goes chim con cut II 
    - in Austria, Vietnam and in between - are another step directing to an 
    other globalising connection - with regional + critical potentials 
    [ retrovisionary practice].

    multiculturalism

    - multiculturalism does not mean contemporary global culture: because of 
    the increasing mediatiation of the world + the tranfer of public power 
    from political / ideological to economic capital power [´material force´]
    expanding worlwide, the various cultures of the world are getting more 
    and more similar, striving for a global culture, but not equally formed by 
    the various vehicles of culture, but unilaterally by the strong economic 
    countries.
    - multiculturalism means the total equality of different cultures in a 
    small woven mosaic of a variety of cultures; small woven to be able to 
    have a huge amount of edges and touches, because these transitions 
    constitute the exciting potential of new understanding of global culture.

    culture critique

    Austria is part of the imperialistic 1st world - though on the periphery 
    - this also is a reason for the nuoc mam dirndl´N  not dealing in their 
    sociocultural work with western mainstream culture, which de facto has the 
    claim to flatter people in other cultures; and those people can be part of 
    it [ for instance rave- and fashion-imperalism-expansion in all edges of 
    the  world ],  if they got the necessary money.
    therefore the  nuoc mam dirndl´N  work with other cultural energies / 
    potentials - mainly expressing in esthetic practice - in the following 
    summarised under the name ´sausage-culture´ or ´sausage-globalism´:

    - rudimentary - global
    basic needs + basic conditions finding their equivalent in every socierty, 
    but having their spezific cultural expression. [ for instance: eating, 
    drinking sleeping, surviving, working, loving, hating ] 

    - original - regionalistic [ retrovisionary ] - minoritary
    cultural statements, not yet taken over or commerialised by a mass-culture 
    industry + corresponding to a identity of social groups - especially the 
    various social minorities. 

    - culture-critical / subcultural
    cultural statements, consciously or unconsciously working against the 
    majoritary culture industry + mass culture [ subcultures / political 
    movements / special sciences ].
	
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