Simon Fraser (IV)

Dear G20 Protest Organizers, a piece of advice: next time don’t show up, don’t protest.

Because inaction as action would have acutely demonstrated to everybody how wasteful and counter-productive the top 20 economies of the world actually are.

Had there been no protests or protesters, no visible action, no civil disobedience for the mainstream media to twist into hyperbole, then there would have been a billion dollars spent on security, solely to arrest one confused homeless guy with a crossbow.

And then you’d have had millions – literally, MILLIONS – more voices closer to your side of the socio-economic debate in which you’re entangled.

Fires are extinguished with water, not with gasoline. If G20 security forces had had nothing and nobody from which to protect the G20 leaders, their presence would have been so obviously unwarranted.

As it is, the protests and riots and vandalism completely justified the presence of ridiculously over-reaching security measures.

You blew it.

A cocaine deal gone awry. Produced for PROJECTproject’s Doppelganger Video Project, in which teams of improvisers shoot unfinished scenes which are then completed by different teams of improvisers in a live performance. BLEW was shot in 90 minutes on May 26, 2010; edited in 9 hours; and screened on May 27, 2010, as part of the Combustion Festival.

BLEW was improvised by Conor Bradbury, Jason DeRosse, Jet Eveleth, Mark Little and Taz VanRassel; directed & edited by Simon Fraser; music from “Permutation” by Amon Tobin.