Radically Reimagine Government Offices at CAP Symposium

STATE OF THE ART CAP SYMPOSIUM 2021
TIMETABLE
1. Symposium - Thursday 25.03.21 / 14:00 - 17:00

2. Introductory meeting about the symposium - Thursday 11.02.21 at 10:00
3. Deadline for submitting your group - Monday 22.02.21 by midday. Please add
your groups’ names and email address to the broadsheet here and indicate
one person who will be the representative for the group.
4. Meeting for all groups involved - Thursday 25.02.21 at 10:00
5. Final meeting - Thursday 18.03.21 at 14:00
INTRODUCTION
In 1919 the proto Fascist Italian poet Gabriele D'Annunzio ran his own city-state in
Rijeka (Croatia) and attempted to organise an alternative “League of Nations” for
oppressed nations. In 1976, as part of an artist placement negotiated by APR (Artist
Placement Group) John Latham proposed to the Scottish Office to preserve the large
industrial spoil tips around Edinburgh as monuments. During his three-month
feasibility study, Latham proposed to re-imagine these post-Industrial sites as
mythical figurative sculptures. In 1991 as a response to the Yugoslav civil war, the
art collective NSK declared itself a ‘state-in-time’ and issues passport and postal
stamps. The passports were allegedly used by individuals to escape the siege of
Sarajevo in the 1990s and more recently thousands of applications from Nigeria
prompted the Slovenian embassy to post a warning regarding the passports on its
offical website, stating that ‘NSK is merely an art project’. Many other artistic projects
have focused on the creation of speculative governments and government offices,
from Ladonia in Sweden where a land art installation became a constitutional
monarchy to Larissa Sansour’s imagining of a Palestinian space programme.
THE BRIEF
Divided into small groups of students (3 - 5 working collaboratively) you will be

allocated one government office from the following list for your ‘take-over’. Groups
will then design new policies, new graphic identity or insignia, come up with new
structures, languages and suggest alternative modes of action, technologies or sites
for the operation of the given office. What would a radically alternative government
look like? Who decides and who implements? How are ideas communicated to the
public? What is your vision for a new model of politics? How could society be
organised differently from above?
Note #1: departments will be allocated to groups randomly after the 11.02.21 to prevent
bureaucratic chaos.
Note #2: Please write down your groups’ members in the following document. If you do not
have a group but would like to take part you are welcome to add your name to one of the
existing groups after emailing the group’s representative or other members.
Department for Education

Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport
Department for Work and Pensions
Department for Health and Social Care
Treasury (Finance)
Foreign Office
Home office
Ministry of Defence
Ministry of Justice
Department for Transport
ADD YOUR GROUP HERE:
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1E6lwXCdHqFKfEtp48puVQveI0Xck5L3Ka
L6wTkp8ZGs/edit?usp=sharing
FORMAT
The symposium will be an open public online event. Each group will be allocated 10
minutes to present their finding in any format they wish: for example, by creating a
slideshow, facilitating a group discussion, performing, reading a text, sharing a pre-
made film or audio piece. This will be followed by a short comment from our
diplomatic respondents (David Burrows and Simon O'Sullivan, tbc) who will feed
back to you on your ideas. Towards the end of the event the general audience will
also be invited to ask questions and participate in a broader discussion.
ANNEX 1
A. Introductory meeting about the symposium - Thursday 11.02.21 at 10:00
Topic: CAP Symposium meeting #1

Time: Feb 11, 2021 10:00 AM London
Join Zoom Meeting

https://rca-ac.zoom.us/j/94357119669?pwd=M1laQXp1ZTFpY2p3bXhKdU92Zjhhdz09
Meeting ID: 943 5711 9669

Passcode: 146355
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+441314601196,,94357119669#,,,,*146355# United Kingdom
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+44 330 088 5830 United Kingdom
Meeting ID: 943 5711 9669
Passcode: 146355
Find your local number: https://rca-ac.zoom.us/u/aex7MhBJLN
B. Second meeting for groups involved - Thursday 25.02.21 at 10:00
Pil Kollectiv is inviting you to a scheduled Zoom meeting.

Time: Feb 25, 2021 10:00 AM London
Join Zoom Meeting

https://rca-ac.zoom.us/j/92947994637?pwd=akpWazNvQjJ5Zm5VRjJrL2RPZGNEUT09
Meeting ID: 929 4799 4637

Passcode: 260162
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Meeting ID: 929 4799 4637
Passcode: 260162
Find your local number: https://rca-ac.zoom.us/u/aZSefgOqr
C. Final meeting - Thursday 18.03.21 at 14:00

Time: Feb 18, 2021 02:00 PM London
Join Zoom Meeting

https://rca-ac.zoom.us/j/93922527790?pwd=MHd3M3ZWc1lLbWVHMDdzSkt4Zm9Wdz09
Meeting ID: 939 2252 7790

Passcode: 012814
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Meeting ID: 939 2252 7790
Passcode: 012814
Find your local number: https://rca-ac.zoom.us/u/acPm11XATX

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STATE OF THE ART CAP SYMPOSIUM 2021

1. Symposium - Thursday 25.03.21 / 14:00 - 17:00

Divided into small groups of students (3 - 5 working collaboratively) you will be

Department for Education

ADD YOUR GROUP HERE:

A. Introductory meeting about the symposium - Thursday 11.02.21 at 10:00

Topic: CAP Symposium meeting #1

Join Zoom Meeting

Meeting ID: 943 5711 9669

Dial by your location

B. Second meeting for groups involved - Thursday 25.02.21 at 10:00

Pil Kollectiv is inviting you to a scheduled Zoom meeting.

Topic: CAP Symposium meeting #2

Join Zoom Meeting

Meeting ID: 929 4799 4637

Dial by your location

C. Final meeting - Thursday 18.03.21 at 14:00

Topic: CAP Symposium meeting #3

Join Zoom Meeting

Meeting ID: 939 2252 7790

Dial by your location

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