My friend and colleague the Swedish visual artist Cecilia Parsberg and me visited the country I was born, Uruguay. We met women who has been in jail with me, some of them spent 13 years in prison. I spent 4 years of my youth in prison, we all belonged to the Tupamaros gerilla or to other anarchistics gerillas. When we visited Palestine for first time in December 2001 we met Palestinian women who were jailed as well. And we started a project called "Law", where we are going to show the portraits of the women who broke the laws they considered criminal, they (we) wanted legalize the law. We are going to listen to their (our) stories, to see the filmed material we are preparing as "work in process".

I wanted share the work we are doing with Eyal Weizman and Rafi Segal's "Politics of Verticality", linked to the Crusades as metaphor and the mapping of the conflicts.

To what extent could the double meaning of ‘custom’ function as tool or discursive resistance to activist strategies today. Is customs perhaps a keyword in respect of a general understanding of what activism or even activating practices intend to irrigate.

On Saturday, March 19th, 2005, the last day of MODE05 http://mode05.org , Irit Rogoff, head of the visual arts department at Goldsmiths College in London, joined for a lecture on "Academy as Potentiality".

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