Communiqué from Art as Crime, Crime as Art
Date: April 23, 2009
Institution Targeted: TelMex
Received anonymously:
Greetings from Mexico:
We are the group ‘Art as Crime, Crime as Art’ from several municipalities in Mexico State.
We know very well the atrocities that Telmex commits as an earth-destroying company and as a sponsor of bullfighting. Because we are conscious and do not want to stay passive before such a situation, we have sabotaged different Telmex booths, but in a different, imaginative way and with the end being to make known to the people who cooperate with Telmex what goes on behind the scenes at that company.
Our actions were:
+ The handset of a phone booth was sabotaged, a little object made of almost-dry bamboo plant was left in a battered bottle filled with dirty water, beneath it a small writing was also left:
The seas are covered in filth
Colors deserted
Go somewhere and you will find them
Tell me if it’s not true
Now there is no greatness in them
The green vomit
Changed them in the torment
And the human is at fault
Does not make the most of what is beautiful
That is spectacular from the earth
And has transformed it into an appalling
And large dungeon
I leave you this plant
with green water
Similar to the planet
In the decadent life …
+ A telephone cable was sabotaged, and the opening where the card is placed in order to speak was blocked-up, making using it impossible; trash was spread about and a little message was left:
Trees cut down
Hills altered
Ecosystems damaged
A planet destroyed
That is what Telmex leaves in its wake
For civilization to expand
They have the earth in a saucepan
So that the powerful can enjoy eating it
Greed, greed and more greed
Produced by civilization
Deposit your garbage here
Or begin your own destruction
+ A phone booth was sabotaged with fire (which left it badly damaged) and a small object was left which consisted of a flower made from an aluminum can and the following message was left:
The skies are gray
The seas black
These same matrixes
The hills are dead
Your consumerism destroys
The whole planet
With money you contribute
To give a certain blow
It is true that the future
Will be strange
Will be very dark
And from a can there will now be flowers …
This is only a demonstration of what our group has begun to do against Telmex, with poetic terrorism, the sabotage of art, imagination and the desire to destroy all that is harmful to us.
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