30 Readings on Neutrality as it relates to Art, Politics, Biology and Space.

Posted by DINP on February 25, 2010

  • Participating Directors:
  • Director of the Dept. for the Investigation of Cross-Pollination (DICP)
  • Director of the Dept. for the Investigation of Failure (DIF)
  • Director of the Dept. for the Investigation of Tactical Education (DITE)

ReaderV

Volume V, 30 Readings on Neutrality as it relates to Art, Politics, Biology and Space, is part of an occasional series of educational readers by the Think Tank that has yet to be named. This reader is created in conjunction with Prototype for a Pedagogical Furniture II to contain and present Reader V and a PHPM (Publicly Held Private Meeting) Instructional Pamphlet.

As a prototype, this piece is the second iteration of small-scale, mobile furniture which might be deployed in various contexts to assist in educational and dialogical purposes. In this version, the Directors have supplied a reader on Neutrality and included an instructional manual on how one might conduct a PHPM. This gesture intends to encourage the viewer to use the mobile unit to facilitate a Publicly Held Private Meeting in Geneva, Switzerland - a Neutral State.

This project is part of an exhibition entitled “Public Things” at Analix Forever and organized by Conrad Bakker. As stated: “The exhibition Public Things focuses on the role of contemporary artworks as “public things” that point to the dialectical relationship between a specific object and its context, between the private space of a gallery and the public space of the city, between a material thing and its network of relations.”

stoolmockup

Download the reader: 30 Readings on Neutrality as it relates to Art, Politics, Biology and Space