"Yet, in terms of how we’ve gone about building the archive, if we had to ask for permission, we wouldn’t exist. Because we have no money, we don’t ask permission. Asking permission always involves paperwork and negotiations, lawyers, and bank accounts. Yuk. But by doing things the wrong way, we’ve been able to pretty much overnight build an archive that’s made publically accessible for free of charge to anyone."

If you’ve ever wondered how UbuWeb gets permission for all of the content they’re hosting, the answer is simple: they don’t.

AAAH!!!

Ubuweb hacked

UbuWeb Radio

Via the good folks at WFMU.

(Downloads a .pls file, should open in your default audio player).

The film presumably shows a fast-paced tracking shot through the tunnel in which Lady Diana Spencer, Princess of Wales, died in a car crash. At first the viewer seems to remember seeing these images in the media. But in reality the set is a true to life, cardboard mock-up of architectural details. Under closer inspection, one also realizes that instead of reproducing reality Thomas Demand creates a perfectly-constructed model world.

Thomas Demand’s Tunnel (1999) on ubuweb.