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Rosie Cooper: International Everything
Took place: January 21st, 2006     [ Photos ]     [ Press ]

Curated by Rosie Cooper.

Notes
On each occasion three speakers will present a topic lasting for a strict fifteen minutes exempt from any idea of 'expertise' in the academic, scientific or critical sense. The monstration [as in the mode of early cinema] is performed in the company of images, or by intrusion of an unfamiliar device, anything at hand as useful [or useless] as 'aide-de-memoire'.

Arguably "International Everything" is a revelation, about the purchase of prescribed knowledge and interpretation. About 'passion', 'pitch' even. However these are not ironic investments as such, also being of no value in the imperial sense of vetted [dis]approval that an academy and its community [of bureaucrats] demands. Something of the universalist "as a host of errors and phantasms" [from Michel Foucault] is articulated in its delivery that constitutes at once a subject, [perfectly situated in just fifteen minutes] before slipping its immediate audience unawares into the profusion of entangled events culled from popular and random accounts of history.