February 11, 2005
The SoS ANTHEM performance.
CAC – Contemporary Arts Center
Lois & Richard Rosenthal Center for Contemporary Art
44 East Sixth Street
Cincinnati, Ohio USA
UPDATE! SoS Passports Confiscated
As a official state-welcome in the United States of America the SoS anthem will be sung be a chorus of the US Army during the opening.
A Temporary SoS Embassy and presentation of the new Video “GROUND 1.”
“Subversion, which forged its first weapons from art, has now become the art of handling every sort of weapon.”
– From The Revolution of Everyday Life, Raoul Vaneigem, 1967.
While subversion and activism is not unique to the art world, bands of artists such as the Situationists, and the Dadaists and Surrealists before them, discovered that a unified voice can project much further than an individual artist or object. As a part of the lineage of these groups which sought to simultaneously subvert and supersede the categorization of art as a facet of society removed from everyday life Incorporated endeavors to address an emergent strategic approach to art-making. The mere suggestion of an authoritative voice with supporting members and organization is enough to assume control of a certain bandwidth of social consciousness. Oftentimes these artists have employed nothing more that a web site to infiltrate organizations of global stature. The scope of the exhibition will include nuanced discussions of community-building, corporate espionage, international politics and civil disobedience. Many of the groups in Incorporated function at the periphery of the art world. Thus, this exhibition will seek to situate their activities within a complex context and history that lies somewhere amidst sculpture, performance, activism and conceptual art.
Participants:
The SoS ANTHEM performance.
As a official state-welcome in the United States of America the SoS anthem will be sung be a chorus of the US Army during the opening.
The Temporary SoS Embassy
During the Opening SoS citizenships and SoS passports will be issued to the guests.
Presentation of the new Video “GROUND 1.
35 minutes
State diplomacy is conducted through artistic sovereignty and trans-nationality – art as state as a direct form of inde- pendent state art.
Settlement coming soon