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HEREFORD SALON PUBLICATIONSAlexander Brener, Transnationala, 1996 Two of Alexander Brener's pieces appear in this volume. The first, a collection of seven poems, is entitled Transnationala after a journey in July 1996 from the East to the West coast of the United States initiated by Irwin of the Neue Slowenische Kunst. Brener was among the participants. The others were Eda Cufer, Goran Djordjevic, Vadim Fishkin, Irwin, Mary Jane Jacob, Mark Paulin, Yuri Linderman, and Viktor Misiano. The journey focused on communication among artists from different cultural, social, and political backgrounds. It started in Atlanta and ended in Seattle via Richmond, Virginia, Chicago, and San Francisco. The seven poems were conceived on that journey. The second piece, entitled I Am Spending the Night in Brooklyn, is Brener's response to his critics. Alexander Brener achieved notoriety at the Interpol show in Stockholm - organized in Winter 1995 by Viktor Misiano, the director of the Contemporary Art Center in Moscow, and Jan Aman, the director of the Center for Contemporary Art and Architecture in Stockholm - where Brener destroyed the installation of Wenda Gu, a Chinese-American artist. Brener was denounced by artists from both sides. Ironically, the Interpol show was intended by the organizers to scale the cultural wall still separating the East from the West. Soon after the publication of Transnationala Brener spray-painted a dollar sign - or is it the Salon's logo? - on a painting by Malevich at the Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam. (All proceeds of sales help offset the cost of Salon events and activities.)
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