IOCOSE IOCOSE

A Crowded Apocalypse

IOCOSE (2012), A Crowded Apocalypse, website and photos

In the Atlantean period there were many energies being used and information and knowledge being used which were, for particular reasons of safety, withdrawn, shall we say, to prevent complete catastrophe, to prevent total destruction of your planet 

– David Icke, conspiracy theorist

IOCOSE has been drawing on crowdsourcing to generate a multitude of conspiracy theories. The group has commissioned a series of micro tasks, each of them being almost completely meaningless. However, when put together, the tasks collectively contributed to generate a series of potential paranoias. The results have been commissioned, collected, organised and exhibited by the artist group, showing the result of a process of mechanical and unemotional involvement of the participants in the process of writing and protesting against conspiratory narratives.

Website: http://acrowdedapocalypse.com/

Commissioned by AND Festival and Furtherfield.

EVENTS AND EXHIBITIONS

2018

 

2013

  • Transmediale, 2 February 2013, Transmediale Festival – Haus Der Kulturen Der Welt, Berlin, Germany
  • Far Festa, 1 juny 2013, Giardini della Biennale, Venice, Italy

2012

  • Invisible Forces 16 June – 11 August 2012, Furtherfield Gallery, London, UK
  • Abandon Normal Devices 29 August – 2 September 2012, Manchester, UK
  • FOTOGRAFIA. Festival internazionale di Roma, 20 September – 28 October 2012, MACRO Testaccio, Roma, Italy
  • Augmented Place. L’arte aumenta la realtà, 23 November 2012, Galleria Cavour, Padova, Italy

 

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