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Calling All Agents
International Necronautical Society (INS) Broadcasting Unit
Institute of Contemporary Arts London
87.7 FM in London and www.necronauts.org worldwide, 24 hrs
daily
8-13 April 2004
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Coinciding with the granting of a temporary licence to broadcast
on FM in the London area, the INS Communications and Encodings
Subcommittee opened the doors of the INS Transmission Room
to the public at the ICA and established its first internet
broadcast at www.necronauts.org.
The configuration of INS broadcasting
protocols was developed following the INS Second First Committee
Hearings: Transmission, Death, Technology (Cubitt Gallery,
London, 2002) and this installation was designed in accordance
with INS General
Secretary’s Report: Calling All Agents (ICA, London,
2003).
The Transmission Room is both a fully functioning radio station
and an embodiment of the psychoanalytical writers Nicholas
Abraham and Maria Torok's notion of the 'crypt': an enclave
which Derrida has described as 'a pocket of resistance to
reality'. The key elements of INS broadcasting are reception,
transcription, transformation and transmission: hearing and
calling. Accordingly, the Transmission Room is equipped to
receive the widest possible spectrum of data, voice and text
streams.
Visitors to the Transmission Room were be able to observe
INS Transmission Agents (Dactylographic Assistants) preparing
a series of radio broadcasts, transcribing incoming signals,
monitoring patterns and devices. The dissection of what INS
General Secretary Tom McCarthy calls the 'mediasphere' follows
the fault-lines in culture: between literature and philosophy,
art and propaganda, fiction and phantasmagoria, territory
and map. Incoming content was transposed, permutated, looped,
echoed and inverted. Material was subjected to metrical and
technical procedures devised by the INS Communications and
Encodings Subcommittee, resulting in scripts for broadcast.
INS signals were heard on FM radio
in the London area, via internet radio and rebroadcast by
collaborating stations in Europe and America.
L’oiseau chante avec les
doigts. Deux fois. Je repète. L’oiseau chante
avec les doigts. Deux fois. Je repète. L’oiseau
... (Radio transmission by the dead poet Cégeste
heard by the title character in Jean Cocteau’s film
Orphée, 1950)
INS Communications and Encodings Subcommittee
Tom McCarthy, INS General Secretary
Anthony Auerbach, INS Chief of Propaganda (Archiving and Epistemological
Critique)
Melissa McCarthy, Chief of Staff
Laura Hopkins, Environmental Engineer
Technical Collaboration
Steve Perry, Broadcast Engineer
Official INS propaganda may be freely
distributed, distorted, appropriated or adapted as the reader
sees fit.
[Original announcement] issued by Anthony Auerbach, INS Chief of
Propaganda (Archiving and Epistemological Critique) 060304
Calling All Agents: INS Broadcasting Unit at the ICA was
supported by Arts Council England and the ICA
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