FW: SATURDAY: "Rollover" -- a public microperformance by theInstitute for Infinitely Small Things

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From: kanarinka <[email protected]>
Date: Thu, 24 Feb 2005 22:36:56 -0500
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Subject: SATURDAY: "Rollover" – a public microperformance by the Institute
for Infinitely Small Things

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The Institute for Infinitely Small Things would like to invite you to the
first in a series of microperformances designed to investigate corporate
commands in public space.

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WHAT: Performance of the Cingular Wireless Command "Rollover" (duration: 10
minutes).
Researchers from the Institute will enact the command to "Rollover" in
Central Sq. and examine the results.
Public walking expedition to find corporate commands to follow after the
performance. Wear comfortable shoes.

WHERE: Meet at the "Rollover" poster, Cingular Store in Central Sq.,
Cambridge, MA

WHEN: Saturday, Feb. 26th, 2PM

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SCHEDULE for all MICROPERFORMANCES + PUBLIC EXPEDITIONS

Saturday, Feb 26th - 2PM
Saturday, March 5th - 2PM
Saturday, March 12th - 2PM
Saturday, March 19th - 2PM
Saturday, March 26th - 2PM
Note: NO EXPEDITION April 2nd
Saturday, April 9th - 2PM
Saturday, April 16th - 2PM

All locations TBA - Call the Institute at 617-501-2441 or check the website
- www.infinitelysmallthings.net – for more information on location a few
days beforehand. All of these expeditions are free and open to the public -
people can come along to observe or participate.

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WHAT IS A CORPORATE COMMAND?
A Corporate Command is an instruction work, a call to action in the form of
an imperative:

"Just Do It"
"Turn on the Future"
"Live without Limits"
"Tap into great taste"
"Think different"
"Ride the light"
"Live Like You Mean It"

It is the hypothesis of the Institute for Infinitely Small Things that these
commands, largely and consciously ignored by a public over-saturated with
advertisements, function at the scale of the infinitely small. Tiny events
that do not disturb one's consciousness or disrupt one's identity as "free"
agents, these commands seep under the surface of the individual and lay
claim to the territory of the Deleuzian Virtual. Desire, memory, and future
potentiality become territories for conquest and tactics for social and
political control.

By compiling, tabulating, concretizing and enacting these commands in the
International Database of Corporate Commands (IDCC), the Institute for
Infinitely Small Things seeks to better understand the mechanisms behind
this deployment of power and its larger cultural ramifications.

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CONTRIBUTE YOUR RESEARCH ONLINE:
www.corporatecommands.com

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ABOUT THE INSTITUTE FOR INFINITELY SMALL THINGS
http://www.infinitelysmallthings.net
The Institute for Infinitely Small Things is a research organization
dedicated to the creation, collection and documentation of all of the
infinitely small things in the world, past, present and future. The
Institute's research projects are concerned with creating a critical
cartography through which to explore notions of political power, social
controls, collective agency and human freedom.

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