[Basekamp Events] Lin + Lam @ Basekamp (This Friday, 7-10pm)

[Scott Rigby]

Secret School 02: Statelessness at Basekamp, Philadelphia
In conversation with Lin + Lam

This Friday, February 20, 2009 from 7-10PM
Basekamp
723 Chestnut Street
Philadelphia, PA 19106

Secret School invites you to a collaborative event with Lin + Lam to  
examine the geopolitical implications of statelessness. Reflecting on  
tightened US immigration policy and the closing of Guantanamo Bay in  
the next year, Lin + Lam explore the inability or refusal to claim  
belonging to a recognized state. Lin + Lam will lead a discussion  
arising from their recent projects "Even the Trees Would Leave" and  
"This Is Not Me."

Secret School will respond to the issues raised through Lin + Lam's  
projects, and the concurrent exhibit at Basekamp: An Atlas, an  
examination of radical cartography organized by artists Lize Mogel and  
Alexis Bhagat.

Secret School explores the importance of the hidden and invisible in  
the social identity of a community through a series of time-based  
events and collaborations. Ranging from the political to the personal,  
epic to the quotidian, unknown to unknowable, how do secrets function  
in the transfer and preservation of power? At a time in which  
oversaturation of readily available information already exceeds our  
capacity for adequate synthesis, how can the poetics of secrets cut  
through the logic of facts? When does the form of a secret supersede  
its content, and under what circumstances must information remain a  
secret? Secret School spans an indefinite number of sessions and range  
of spaces and extends from the aesthetic practice of building systems  
of social exchange.

For more information, visit secretschool.wordpress.com or email
s3Cr37.5ch00l at gmail.com

For immediate release; please circulate widely.

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