Open and permeable society and infrastructure vs. the call for a government/military controlled, discriminated and highly surveilled society and infrastructure.
“Freedom” vs “Public Safety”
Collapse of American infrastructure security: skyscrapers, airplanes, trucking, waterways, food production, energy production, mail, Internet Communications, immigration, etc.
Hollywood vs. NYC, The actual attack, building collapses and ensuing city disaster as a seem already pictured by Hollywood simulacra, increased Hollywood interest in larger and larger explosions, see if movies such as Independence Day and Armageddon.
Fear of insidious terrorist warfare, transnational organizations, viral metaphors, terrorist cells and people who blend in to the society and then are activated. Western infrastructure, commerce and bureaucracy waiting to be used as a weapon. Our own institutions used against us.
Global oil interests and their attendant political alignments, the rise of SUVS
Post Cold War political alignments, previous U.S. support of Bin Laden, Al Queda and the Talaban regime.
Israel/Palestinian conflict, drawing the U.S. in to direct relationship with issues, alliances and warfare.
Clash of theocracy vs. secular democracy
Religious fanaticism, “God is Good” saying from Islam often associated with terrorists, see document found in left in car by terrorists at Boston’s Logan International.
Continuing questions about incompatibility of religious world views with capitalism/democracy/humanism
The peril /fall of the invincible Western capitalist city
Multi-culturalism verses segregation: racial profiling
Islam versus capitalism, shortly after the war, scantily clad Jennifer Lopez broadcast to Afghanistan, New York Daily News, Nightline interview with the Saudi Arabian Prince*in which he discusses the rejection of a range of Western values.
Feminism vs. reactionary Islam - low term concerns of feminists about treatment of women by the Talaban regime.
*whose enormous donation offered to New York was refused to by it Gulliani on the grounds that he expressed the hope that Americans would reconsider their treatment of the Palestinian questions in the Middle East
In a message dated 4/16/02 9:37 PM, Willpap writes:
<<Why the Y
Why not why?
The 9/11-WTC tragedy becomes the impossible problem site where we cannot ask why?
The Soft Wishing Y Memorial, peripheral to the event, asks what is the way from here?
The wishbone wish Y offers the chance to ask the burning questions about conditions of the past present and future, for the individual, for the collective.
The wide Y image is the tool, the method, the mechanism for inquiring; the wishbone, the tuning fork, the dousing rod; a joining of Western reasoning and non-Western divining.
The Y formation is the result of numerically representing 9/11 casualties added to website wishes. Orange E-mergency pom poms, like pixels, will form the Y image at the intersection of West Broadway and Hudson Streets.
The Ephem-Memorial, transient and immaterial, mirrors the website:
http://www.willpap-projects.com/WishY/SoftWishingYMonument.html
Because it is part of the Free Biennial, it is a free artwork:
http://www.freewords.org/biennial/fbabout.html>>