Sonntag, 10. Mai 2009

ausblick/kitekintés 11.: illegal restoration... the urban explorers and the clock of the panthéon

elvetemültebb nyelvhasználók- "cukinak" minősítenék az alábbiakat- nekünk nagyon teszik a történet és elgondolkodtat- vajon mi van akkor ha illegálisan állunk neki valamit felújítani, megóvni stb-amit a gondos szervek nem tesznek meg....most jót teszünk? vagy romboluk? vagy helyreállítunk? vagy most mi ez?
"Member of L'UX, The Untergunther is a French team whose activity is to restore the invisible parts of the heritage in total clandestinity. In November 2005, the Untergunther infiltrated the Panthéon of Paris and, with the help of the professional clockmaker Jean-Baptiste Viot, started to restore the abandoned monumental 1850 Wagner clock before its irreversible state of defacement.Once this restoration achieved, in October 2006, the UnterGunther decided to meet the administrator of the Pantheon, in order to show him this work and to connect the clock to the bells. After an enthusiastic welcome, Mister Jeannot suddenly changed his mind and decided to keep the silence on this clandestine restoration, frightened that this fantastic action was the proof of the incapacity of the French National Heritage administration, Monum, to preserve the heritage it is in charge of.On the night of the 24th december 2006, the Untergunther came back to the Panthéon and fixed the bells to the clock which just rang for Christmas and a few days after because Mister Jeannot decided that this result of a clandestine restoration of an abandoned part of the French heritage was intolerable and had to stop. Bernard Jeannot can be the administrator of the Panthéon but he does not seem to care about heritage.No doubt that a real guerilla was suddenly declared between him, its inefficient administration and the Untergunther.This amazing restoration is the end of an adventure began with the clandestine transformation of a neglected part of the Panthéon as a design living room with wood furniture built onsite, electricity, and a computer connected to internet called the UGWK, for "Unter und Gunther Winter Kneipe", which could be translated as the Unter and Gunther Winter Boozer. A very pleasant workshop which gave also nightmares to Mister Jeannot and its so called Administration.On the morning of friday November 23 2007, four members of the Untergunther appeared before the Paris Court of Justice, charged not of illegal intrusion and occupation of a national monument or use of false keys but for having detroyed a keeper of a lock located on one of the outside grids of the Panthéon.This charge (qualified as "stupid" by Public Prosecutor Anne Benejean) being not provable, the indictment was the total release of the Untergunther members while Eric Gomez, lawyer for Monum, asked 48300 euros in compensation.After twenty minutes of deliberation, Judge Eric Meunier confirmed the release. Pascal Monnet, the new Administrator of the Panthéon after the retirement of the efficient Bernard Jeannot, and Ghislaine Santoni, in charge of the security of the building, left the Court of Justice with a very sad face and the Untergunther went to their new clandestine workshop to have a drink.Interviewed by French newspaper Le Monde, Monum acknowledged the quality of this restoration.One can now wonder why the administration does not decide to wind up the clock. It is impossible to think that for all these administrators in charge of the French Heritage a monument is something stated in the time and can not be changed, and especially not be upgraded by a clandestine restoration....The members of L'UX are largely secret, but its spokesman is Lazar Kunstmann who just published La culture en clandestins. L'UX relating 25 years of clandestine cultural action. "

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