2000
Nanostate project <<link to Nanostate Project summary>>
Currently engaged in the collaborative planning of an event to launch the Nanostate Protocol Volume 2 (written by Brian Chadwick)
Untitled performance
Agglutinate of Pleasures, 291 Gallery, London
Contribution to this event of an individual performance - a mediation of synthetic animal sounds through the mouth of a backpacker-tourist.
‘Nanostate: Five-language reading event’
Live-stock Ram-FM, Arc Centre, Stockton-On-Tees
Proposer, co-organiser and co-performer of the Nanostate contribution to this 3-day event. The performance made use of automated translation software to prepare degenerating versions of a text – the source text was itself concerned with language systems and their relationship to statehood.
Live-stock Ram-FM <<link to http://www.live-stock.org>> was a webcast and local FM-Radio broadcast event, initiated and funded by Northern Arts.
Gift, 2yk Galerie, Berlin
Invited to participate in this group exhibition concerned with translation and linguistic ambiguity (the word ‘Gift’ means ‘poison’ in German). The work was a two-screen video piece: ‘Writing and Passivity’. <<link to summary page for this work>> The work aimed to examine the role of the human subject in a model ideological / technological system.
The exhibition attracted support from the British Council, and was accompanied by a publication (also available on-line at http://www.copyright-projekt.de) <<insert this as a link>>.
1999
Nanostate Reading Room, Golders Green Club, London
This event included performances, as well as an exhibition of artworks, ephemera and appropriated texts to embody the fluid and overlaid nature of the Nanostate. A private snooker club became the site for an exercise in co-existence and parallel identity - a core concept of the project. The event was supported by the Arts Council of England (National Lottery Fund).
One minute @ 1 7/8 ips
Confederacy of Pleasures, Gallery Westland Place, London
A performance for this exhibition in which a radio news broadcast was delayed for one minute with a tape-delay system. The content of the news was then mediated - by being written out on a single large sheet of paper for the audience to read / receive prior to their hearing it from the radio. This act of writing-out fragmented the text of the news, which was overlaid and juxtaposed into an increasingly random, and visually noisy arrangement (contrasting with the linearity and order of the broadcast itself).
1998
Nanostate project
Foundation of web presence at www.nanostate.org
The collaborative project was launched with a web presence: http://www.nanostate.org <<make this a link>>. This was conceived initially as an archive of articles and activities, but also included expositions of the ideas, interactive works (to demonstrate the non-geographical nature of the Nanostate), and the Nanostate Protocol Volume 1<<link to http://www.nanostate.org/protvol1.htm>> (written by Brian Chadwick).
The site was financially assisted by the Arts Council of England (National Lottery Fund).
Beast with two backs
Twister, Central Point Gallery, London
Single channel video and two channel audio work, addressing issues of the cultural assimilation of the subject. The exhibition was a two-person showing of the work of artists who had received the First Base Studio Award, administered by ACAVA, London.
1997
‘71:40’ (Seventy-one hours and forty minutes). Milch, London
Co-curator of this exhibition in which around thirty artists made work concerned with systems and ideals, as embodied in the title of the exhibition - the world record for standing on one leg. (The event ran day and night for exactly that time.)
It included an individual contribution from Peter in the form of a single channel video / audio-sculpture ’24 to the count of 10’. It was also the occasion of the first appearance of the Nanostate, in the form of the Mobile Embassy of the Nanostate, a work of Brian Chadwick, in collaboration with James Hutchinson and Helena Swatton.
Nanostate Project Summary
Virtuality, the non-geographic and the political – Nanostate project summary
The Nanostate project is an ongoing visualisation and embodiment of the impact of networked technologies on citizenship and the nation state. It is a collaborative venture, and has received Arts Council of England (National Lottery Fund) support.
The location of the Nanostate is defined not by territory, or historical precedent, but by time. This conception places it outside of the conventional parameters of statehood, and allows it to become a forum for enquiry into the defining characteristics of a non-geographical / virtual political entity.
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The project is being developed through text, website <<link to http://www.nanostate.org>>, exhibition, performance and discussion.
