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INS Bulletin: recent and upcoming events, statements and clarifications; esential links and press information


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Calling All Agents: Transmission, Death, Technology (2003)
Navigation was Always a Difficult Art (2002)

The two INS General Secretary’s reports by Tom McCarthy are now out of print. For the time being, no reprint is planned. However, the INS Department of Propaganda has authorised a numbered series of authorised copies to be issued, in accordance with the INS Declaration on Inauthenticity. These are expected to be available from 1 September 2010.
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29 July 2010: London
INS Commission on Crypts: Architecture, Neurosis and Death

A public session of the INS Inspectorate Technical Commission on Crypts, chaired by INS General Secretary Tom McCarthy with external assessors award-winning novelist Chloe Aridjis and scholar Richard Martin met to hear testimony from architect Patrick Lynch and psychoanalyst Darian Leader. Hosted by Sigmund Freud and Buster Keaton as part of The Surreal House.
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Rendezvous: Barbican Art Gallery, Barbican Centre, Silk Street, London EC2Y 8DS, 1900–2200h, hearings begin 2000h. Tickets £10 (cheaper for concessions, members and if you buy online) include admission to exhibition until 2200h. Bar in the gallery.


29 July 2010: Berlin
Triple Canopy: Sender, Carrier, Receiver

Triple Canopy, the ambitious online magazine out of Brooklyn, from its inception a reliable instrument of INS propaganda, and currently proselytising in Berlin (the city designated the World Capital of Death by the INS) held a meeting purporting to disclose INS activities in Berlin.

Rendezvous: Program, Invalidenstraße 115, 10115 Berlin, 1930h. Free.


until 8 August 2010: London
Narcissus Trance

Exhibition curated by Shama Khanna and Paul Purgas, with Ben Washington, International Necronautical Society, Joe Watling, Karl O'Connor & Mick Harris, Mark Titchner, Rose Kallal & Mark Beasley, Sara VanDerBeek, Sayshun Jay, Takeshi Murata, Wade Guyton.

Rendezvous: E:vent Gallery, 96 Teesdale Street, London E2 6PU. Saturday and Sunday 1200-1800h, and by appointment


12 February 2010: London
Declaration on the Future

INS Declaration, or Admonitions and Exhortations for the Cultural Producers of the early-to-mid Twenty-first Century, delivered by General Secretary Tom McCarthy. This declaration will ‘loop back to where we started, to the ink-rich ditch we never left: the future ends where it begins — or ends before it begins, pre-ends in anticipation of its eternal recommencement, however you like to put it — with a car crash.’
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Rendezvous: Royal College of Art, Kensington Gore, London SW7 2EU


Monday 14 December 2009: London
General Meeting: 10th Anniversary of the Founding Manifesto

INS General Secretary Tom McCarthy reviewed ten years of necronautical activity and made an announcement.
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Rendezvous: The Barley Mow, 127 Curtain Rd, London, EC2A 3BX


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Sunday 27 September 2009: London
Publication: Aerial Reconnaissance Berlin

A public session of the INS Inspectorate Committee heard evidence and inspected material recovered by Anthony Auerbach. Chair: Tom McCarthy, INS General Secretary, with: assessors Eyal Weizman and Margarita Gluzberg. Publication of the Dossier.
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Rendezvous: A Foundation, London: Rochelle School, Arnold Circus, London E2 7ES


16 May–18 October 2009: Dortmund
Exhibition: Awake Are Only the Spirits

INS Black Box Transmitter installated as part of the exhibition curated by Inke Arns and Thibaut de Ruyter.

Rendezvous: Hartware Medienkunstverein Phoenix Halle, Hochofenstr, Dortmund, Germany. Exhibition continues until 18 October 2009.


Latest press: The London Declaration reviewed in Triple Canopy, 3:AM Magazine, not once but twice, blogged by Tate and Mr Trippy (be sure to read the comments).

INS Department of Propaganda Press Digest 2008
A summary of recent press reports on the INS including important articles in the New York Review of Books, Triple Canopy, as well as reviews and interviews.
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Sunday 14 June 2009: Athens
The Athens Declaration on Inauthenticity

Part of the second Athens Biennial.


Saturday 17 January 2009: London
The London Declaration on Inauthenticity

INS General Secretary Tom McCarthy and INS Chief Philosopher Simon Critchley presented the Joint Statement on Inauthenticity in the last of a series of events anticipating the Altermodern.
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view Tate video

Renezvous: Tate Britain, Auditorium, Millbank, London SW1P 4RG


18 October 2008: London
Proclamation: Art and Democracy

INS General Secretary Tom McCarthy delivered the INS Proclamation on Art and Democracy as part of the Serpentine's Manfisto Marathon.
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Rendezvous: Serpentine Gallery Pavilion, Kensington Gardens, London W2 3XA


31 May–24 August 2008: Stockholm
Exhibition: Eclipse — Art in a Dark Age
Publication: Calling All Agents (Swedish translation)

INS participated alongside contemporary artists Paul McCarthy, Mike Nelson, Dana Schutz and others in an exhibition curated by Magnus af Petersens. A Black Box Transmitter was installed at Stockholm's museum of modern art, transmitting on 94.4 FM in the Stockholm area for the duration of the exhibition.
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listen to transmission
watch INS Gen. Sec. Tom McCarthy explain

Rendezvous: Moderna Museet, Skeppsholmen, Stockholm


18 March 2008: New York
Publication: The State of Inauthenticity

Article by Peter Schwenger on the INS New York Declaration appeared in the inaugural issue of Triple Canopy, New York. Readers are advised that recordings and transcripts of the Declaration appearing on the internet are not authorised by INS.


24 February 2008: New York
Briefing: Aerial Reconnaissance

INS Chief of Propaganda Anthony Auerbach explained flash bombs, reading material and INS aerial reconnaissance operations. Images recovered during the INS Inspectorate Berlin were shown. The results of fieldwork were be aligned with INS central concerns: marking and erasure; transit, circulation and control; cryptography and death. INS Chief Philosopher Simon Critchley was in attendance. Host: Triple Canopy
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Rendezvous: Freddy’s Backroom 485 Dean Street, Brooklyn, NY 11217


4 December 2007: Official News Release
Joint Statement on Inauthenticity

INS Department of Propaganda releases a summary of the INS New York Declaration in anticipation of the official transcript; warns unauthorised recordings and transcripts circulating on the Internet cannot be authenticated.
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25 September 2007: New York
Joint Statement on Inauthenticity

INS General Secretary Tom McCarthy and INS Chief Philosopher Simon Critchley presented the Joint Statement advancing inauthenticity as the central tenet of INS doctrine, with a compelling critique of the notion of authenticity in art, literature, philosophy and politics.

Rendezvous: The Drawing Center, 35 Wooster Street, New York, NY 10013


24 August 2007: Edinburgh
INS Lecture: Reading Material

INS Chief of Propaganda (Archving and Epistemological Critique) Anthony Auerbach discussed reading material, detective work and aerial reconnaissance. A transcript will shortly be filed in the Committee Papers of the INS Inspectorate Berlin.

Rendezvous: Stills, 23 Cockburn Street, Edinburgh EH1 1BP


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