UX, Untergunther, and the Underground Restoration of French Culture page 1
borealis
24th January 2012, 03:00 PM
I had no idea this group existed.
The Untergunther is a clandestine group with a mission to restore the neglected heritage in Paris. It’s a member of the UX, a coalition of groups sharing complementary activities, which include The Mouse House and La Mexicaine De Perforation.
http://www.ugwk.eu/
The Wired article is pretty good.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Les_UX
http://www.urban-resources.net/untergunther.html
http://www.wired.com/magazine/2012/01/ff_ux/all/1
The Untergunther is a clandestine group with a mission to restore the neglected heritage in Paris. It’s a member of the UX, a coalition of groups sharing complementary activities, which include The Mouse House and La Mexicaine De Perforation.
http://www.ugwk.eu/
The Wired article is pretty good.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Les_UX
http://www.urban-resources.net/untergunther.html
http://www.wired.com/magazine/2012/01/ff_ux/all/1
charlou
24th January 2012, 03:12 PM
Interesting project. Why clandestine?
borealis
24th January 2012, 03:51 PM
Clandestine because no one with the authority or funds to do so is interested in spending the time and money to do any of these restorations, or fix any of the severe lapses in security identified by UX, even when specifically told by UX members that such holes in security exist.
The Pantheon clock story is really interesting. Upon discovering the clock had been fixed, the museum authorities purposely re-broke it. And it looked to Untergunther as if the clock had been deliberately sabotaged in the first place.
I imagine it's possible in Europe, given that everyone is continually walking over a few thousand years of layered history and prehistory, to become immune to the importance and desirability of culturally significant places and artifacts.
It's a little shocking to people like me, who live in a place where history is short, and prehistory, though long, is scattered across a vast landscape and treasured when found. L'Anse aux Meadeaux was settled briefly by Vikings around a thousand years ago. I've been there, and was profoundly moved by the experience.
In Europe I found people matter of fact about antiquities, so much so that they seemed not to care about them at all. The student residence I lived in in Haarlem was over 2 centuries old, had been built for a Bishop, then converted to a convent house, then turned into student housing. It had mural-painted ceilings downstairs, marble hallway floors, niches for saints in the walls, tapestry covered walls in one room, parquet floors in another, a wall of French doors leading to a tangled stonewalled private garden, a massive arch-topped ten foot high carved wood front door. Such a building here would be a historic site and likely a museum. There it was a place for art students to live and randomly if not intentionally vandalise.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/L'Anse_aux_Meadows
The Pantheon clock story is really interesting. Upon discovering the clock had been fixed, the museum authorities purposely re-broke it. And it looked to Untergunther as if the clock had been deliberately sabotaged in the first place.
I imagine it's possible in Europe, given that everyone is continually walking over a few thousand years of layered history and prehistory, to become immune to the importance and desirability of culturally significant places and artifacts.
It's a little shocking to people like me, who live in a place where history is short, and prehistory, though long, is scattered across a vast landscape and treasured when found. L'Anse aux Meadeaux was settled briefly by Vikings around a thousand years ago. I've been there, and was profoundly moved by the experience.
In Europe I found people matter of fact about antiquities, so much so that they seemed not to care about them at all. The student residence I lived in in Haarlem was over 2 centuries old, had been built for a Bishop, then converted to a convent house, then turned into student housing. It had mural-painted ceilings downstairs, marble hallway floors, niches for saints in the walls, tapestry covered walls in one room, parquet floors in another, a wall of French doors leading to a tangled stonewalled private garden, a massive arch-topped ten foot high carved wood front door. Such a building here would be a historic site and likely a museum. There it was a place for art students to live and randomly if not intentionally vandalise.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/L'Anse_aux_Meadows
ficus
8th February 2012, 02:33 AM
Interesting...
ficus
8th February 2012, 02:35 AM
The Parisian authoritiesoppose the group's actions, starting a police unit to track them through the sewers and catacombs of Paris, and attempting to apprehend and charge them.
Charges were brought against the four Untergunther restorers of the Pantheon clock, but at trial, after twenty minutes deliberation, the judge ruled in their favor.retard authorities... typical
Charges were brought against the four Untergunther restorers of the Pantheon clock, but at trial, after twenty minutes deliberation, the judge ruled in their favor.retard authorities... typical
Jerome
8th February 2012, 02:57 AM
On December 24, 2006, The Mouse House conducted a transmission check on the lantern of the Pantheon. This is when, out of curiosity, they asked Mr. Viot if it was possible to wind up the clock and set it to the correct time. That same evening, he wound up the clock causing it to chime. This exposed the CMN clumsy stance to deny the whole story. A few days later, the stubborn administration asked a clockmaker from the company Lepaute to re-sabotage the mechanics, making headlines in The Times (http://web.mac.com/peint/UGWK/2007-09-29_TheTimes_img.html).
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