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COMMON MISUNDERSTANDINGS

• ETCETERA
• et al. and the rest (of it) nz
• et al. and other things

• PROJECTS 2010
• BURNT HOUSE . A little later.,
• A Week of Goodness_Living Room 2010

• PROJECTS-2005-9
• Hirschfield
• that's obvious! that's right!
• maintenance of social solidarity
• no free gift
• altruistic studies: no vote
• altruistic studies: vote only once
• social meaning of things
• we say sorry
• attempting to engineer
• regroup! reorder! restore!
• contemporary solidarity
• maintenance of social solidarity I
• maintenance of solidarity_instance5
• fundamenteel rekenen_Nieuw York
• second of the ordinary practices
• de nieuwe stem
• the fundamental practice
• the fundamental practice_drawings

• PROJECTS 2000-4
• rapture
• restricted access
• the second practice
• 4. methods of investigation
• abnormal mass delusions? 2.
• abnormal mass delusions? 1.
• serial reform 713L 2.
• serial reform 713L 1.
• simultaneous invalidations 2.
• simultaneous invalidations 3.
• simultaneous invalidations_drawings
• original research outcome

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2008 et al. Interstitial Zones
Historical Facts, Archaeologies of the Present and Dialectics of Seeing Argos, Centre for Art & Media Curated by Paul Willemsen

ALTRUISTIC STUDIES installation, variable dimensions, 2008

- 'altruistic studies an 'unmanned, computer-generated performance'. It is an amalgam of monitors, sound and light, crush barriers with plastic screens and written and printed texts. Thanks to its consciously messy arrangement, 'altruistic studies' evokes the atmosphere of an experimental laboratory, an indeterminate zone in which the military-economic, political and revolutionary mix freely with one another. The world reduced to a uniform, globalised economic operating terrain and culturally to an all-encompassing supermarket of religions,wisdoms, cultures and political beliefs. Outside no longer exists. A central theme in altruistic studies is the cultural phenomenon of religious suicide attacks as a symptom of the clash between economic liberalism and religious fanaticism. The media, which suppress the collective intelligence on both sides in favour of mass psychosis, help pave the way for this impasse. Excerpts from speeches by heads of state such as George W. Bush, Saddam Hussein, Mahood Ahmadi-Najad and Muslim activists such as Osama bin Laden and Sheikh Mohammed Bashir interlace a complex installation which stops at the borders where it comes up against liberalism and the western model of democracy. A grey, dystopian setting forms the backdrop for taking the temperature of the mass-social and a failing global solidarity'.

Paul Willemsen, 2008 (publication document)