Franche-Comté. "I won't go to the United States": Franche-Comté artist Lydie Jean-Dit-Pannel's snub to Donald Trump's America
Franche-Comté artist Lydie Jean-Dit-Pannel was scheduled to depart on May 26 for her third performative walk to Nulle part, the tiny town of Nowhere, Oklahoma. She let the plane, which was supposed to drop her off in Miami, take off without her, and headed to America, in the Netherlands, as a political and poetic gesture to denounce Trump's America, which is withdrawn into itself and destroys science, culture, and diverse beings.
After New York and Los Angeles, you were about to head back to Nowhere, Oklahoma, for the third time, departing from Cape Canaveral, Florida, but you decided not to. Why?
“While everything was ready for this big march, I decided to cancel. I won’t be going to the United States. I’m doing another march called “See you America, maybe” because I can’t condone what’s happening. Every morning since Trump’s inauguration, the shock and dismay at the news have emptied my plan. Just one example: the layoffs and the dissolution of the Department of Education, major books being removed from...
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