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<a
href="http://basekamp.com/about/events/think-tank-has-yet-be-named"><h1>The
Think Tank that has yet to be named</h1></a>
<span class="date-display-single">July 27, 2010 - <span
class="date-display-start">6:00pm</span><span class="date-display-separator">
- </span><span class="date-display-end">8:00pm</span></span> EST
<div class="writeboardbody"><p>Hi Everyone, <p>This Tuesday is another event
in a year-long series of weekly conversations and exhibits in 2010 shedding
light on examples of Plausible Artworlds. <p>This week we’ll be talking
with Jeremy Beaudry from the anomalously named “Think Tank that has yet to
be named”, a sort of roving creative public policy institute that
initiates site-specific conversations, performative actions, and educational
projects questioning contemporary urban issues wherever they happen to crop
up. Specifically, the group is concerned with how artists and their creative
practices so often end up embroiled in urban (re)development strategies,
gentrification and the general homogenization of urban space.
<p>http://www.thinktank.boxwith.com/ <p>Since its inception in 2006, the
Think Tank’s permanently open-ended denomination draws particular
attention each time it is enunciated to the perils and pitfalls of name
giving — above all naming’s inherent tendency to a assign a fixed
identity, something any would-be plausible artworld must be wary of. Naming
is a powerful political act when it makes a previously unauthorized body
appear; yet perhaps only “as-yet-to-be-naming” can perpetuate this
political potential over time. As Jeremy Beaudry, Director of the Dept for
the Investigation of Meaning, explains, “the Think Tank is comprised of
several Departments, each led by a single Director. There can be no
Department without a Director, and there can be no Director without a
Department. Directors are both autonomous agents and cooperative
collaborators. In this respect, the Think Tank has no members, only
directors. The declaration of a directorship in a Department amounts to a
statement of that individual’s bias and agenda. Nothing is more offensive
to the Think Tank than the pretense of neutrality.” The list of names of
the Think Tank’s Departments (past and present) wryly makes the point:
<p>• Dept. for the Investigation of Authenticity (<span
class="caps">DIA</span>)<br> • Dept. for the Investigation of
Cross-Pollination (<span class="caps">DICP</span>)<br> • Dept. for the
Investigation of Documentary Subjectivity (<span
class="caps">DIDS</span>)<br> • Dept. for the Investigation of Ecological
Subjectivity (<span class="caps">DIES</span>)<br> • Dept. for the
Investigation of Failure (<span class="caps">DIF</span>)<br> • Dept. for
the Investigation of InterSubjectivity (<span class="caps">DIIS</span>)<br>
• Dept. for the Investigation of Meaning (<span
class="caps">DIM</span>)<br> • Dept. for the Investigation of Metaphorical
Agency (DIMetA)<br> • Dept. for the Investigation of Neutrality &
Palatability (<span class="caps">DINP</span>)<br> • Dept. for the
Investigation of Radical Pedagogy (<span class="caps">DIRP</span>)<br>
• Dept. for the Investigation of ReHumanization (<span
class="caps">DIRH</span>)<br> • Dept. for the Investigation of the
Structure of Expectations (<span class="caps">DISE</span>)<br> • Dept. for
the Investigation of Tactical Education (<span class="caps">DITE</span>)<br>
• Dept. for the Investigation of Tactical and Strategic Alignment (<span
class="caps">DITSA</span>)<br> • Dept. for the Investigation of the
Unmentionable and the authentic <br> • Dept. for the Investigation of the
Unthinkable (<span class="caps">DIUT</span>) <p>See you all then! <p>Join
us every Tuesday night – in person, or on Skype, skypename:
‘basekamp’<br> If you come to the potluck chat in person, be sure to
bring a dish :)<br> Basekamp space: 723 Chestnut St, 2nd floor, Philadelphia
usa <p>To join this week’s Potluck Chat: <p>Download from skype.com if
you don’t already have it <ul><li>In Skype “Add a contact”:
basekamp</li><li>Send a message when you want to join the chat, by selecting
us from your list and clicking ‘Start chat’</li><li>We’ll add you to
the text chat, and when everyone is ready we’ll start the conference
call</li></ul> <p>Follow Plausible Artworlds:<br>
http://twitter.com/basekamp<br> http://basekamp.com/info </div>
<p>Comment here<br />
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href="http://basekamp.com/about/events/think-tank-has-yet-be-named#comments">http://basekamp.com/about/events/think-tank-has-yet-be-named#comments</a></p>
<p><em>Plausible Artworlds is a project organized by Basekamp and Stephen
Wright, and has been funded by The Pew Center for Arts & Heritage through the
Philadelphia Exhibitions Initiative.</em></p> </div>
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