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International Necronautical Society (INS)
1999
July: INS Founded by Tom McCarthy. First Manifesto launched
at Gavin Turk's Articultural Fair, South Bank Centre, London. Artists,
writers and philosophers appointed to posts on First Committee.
2000
July: First Committee Hearings, Lux Gallery, London. First
Committee Members make depositions before General Secretary, press
and public.
September: INS webstite built by artist Rod Dickinson. Depositions
of First Committee Members archived.
2001
March-April: INS Residency in Office of Anti-Matter, Austrian
Cultural Institute, London. Prominent artists, writers and philosophers
summoned to Office of Anti-Matter and interrogated by McCarthy and
other First Committee Members in front of public, press and INS
Secretariat. Interviews transcribed and archived. Films by Tarkovsky,
Marker, Cocteau and others screened and closely analysed by INS.
May: McCarthy interviewed about INS on BBC.
July: Article on INS appears in Log Illustrated.
October: INS Residency at DasArts Foundation, Amsterdam,
entitled 'Shooting History Project'. McCarthy works with dancers,
choreographers and firearms experts to reconstruct mafia shootout
that took place in Amsterdam three years previously. Wind-tunnel,
data capture software, guns and heartbeat monitors used. Project
marks beginning of INS's interest in event-structures.
2002
March: General Secretary's First Report to First Committee, Navigation
Was Always a Difficult Art, published by Vargas Organisation
and delivered as performance-lecture at Royal Geographical Society,
London.
June: McCarthy interviewed about INS on Resonance FM.
July: INS announcement of appointments and opportunities within
the organisation published in Untitled.
October: INS represented at A-Convention, Liverpool Biennale.
McCarthy invited to deliver opening address to Convention. Article
on INS appears in Times Literary Supplement.
November: Second First Committee Hearings: Transmission, Death,
Technology, Cubitt Gallery, London. Experts and practitioners
in the fields of sound, wireless electronic communication, encryption
and broadcasting interrogated by INS Delegation consisting of McCarthy,
INS Chief of Propaganda Anthony Auerbach and BBC journalist and
novelist Zinovy Zinik in Hearings Chamber designed by Laura Hopkins.
Testimony recorded, archived and analysed by INS Communications
and Encoding Group as INS prepare ground for establishment of broadcasting
station.
December: INS infiltrates BBC website and inserts propaganda in
corporation's source-code. Operation seen as experiment in viral
transmission and micro-media, preparation for activities of larger
INS Broadcasting Unit.
2003
January: Article about INS appears in The Wire.
February-April: Second First Committee Hearings broadcast on Resonance
FM.
May: INS Prague Lecture Tour. McCarthy invited to Prague
as guest of Charles University and British Council to talk about
INS.
June: London's Institute of Contemporary Art (ICA) commission INS
Broadcasting/Propaganda Unit as major project for 2004. Calling
All Agents, a phrase deployed repeatedly by William Burroughs,
chosen as project title. Arts Council of England offer funding for
radio equipment, staff etc.
July: Article about INS appears in RBS Gazette, New York.
August: Article about INS appears in Prague Literary Review.
September: INS Chief of Propaganda, Anthony Auerbach contributes
to discussion of 'Necrorealism' at ICA, London.
September: First Committee Purges. General Secretary issues
proclamation detailing changes in personnel and policy adjustments.
December: General Secretary's Second Report, entitled Calling
All Agents, analysis of testimonies at Second First Committee
Hearings and suggestions for broadcasting unit make-up, to be published
by Vargas Organisation and delivered as performance-lecture.
2004
April: Calling All Agents installation of INS Broadcasting
Unit at ICA London
June: INS General Secretary Tom McCarthy profiled in Art
Montly (no. 277)
July: INS Inspectorate Berlin Advance Reconnaissance
Summer: INS profiled in Untitled (no. 32)
2005
May: INS Inspectorate Berlin Aerial Reconnaissance
2006
April: Metropolis Rise : New Art from London, exhibition in Shanghai
and Beijing
May–June: INS Inspectorate Berlin Temporary Office
of Interpretation, Bratislava
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