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INS Bulletin: recent and
upcoming events, statements and clarifications;
esential links and press information
imminent
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.
Contact
for notification.
current
INS Propaganda @necronauts
Transmission IDs (TT: Test Transmission,
CT: Coded Transmission, ECT: En Clair
Transmissions, RPT: repeat) are no longer
included.
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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.
read more
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.’
read more
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.
read more
Rendezvous: The
Barley Mow, 127 Curtain
Rd, London, EC2A 3BX
past
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.
view images
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.
read more
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.
read
more
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.
view proclamation
view images
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.
view images
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
view images
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.
view official
release
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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