ICOLS July 2002 Update

[ICOLS DIRECTORS]

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                          http://www.icols.org




July 2002  UPDATE:


Dear all,

Thanks to those members who have sent in such great contributions and
communications since the June update letter and to those who contributed
to the success of the ICOLS Sydney launch event.

These monthly updates will from now on be emailed to a larger audience,
many of whom have shown interest in ICOLS to date. Many thanks to those
of you who have sent in fan mail and letters of support.
If you would like to be removed from the list, or are receiving more
than one copy, please let us know.

Launch report
For an illustrated report on the MCA launch which took place in Sydney
on Saturday July 13th 2002 please go to
the news/events page accessible from the top of the main menu page.

New works on the ICOLS site, listed by department:

International Corporation of Lost Structures
New members:
John Paul Bichard (UK) - Spymaster (with responsibilities for
Psychological Operations)
born 1964 - - astronaut training Star City, Moscow 1976  to 1981,
recruited by STASI as a special operative, East Germany 1981 - 1988 -
disappeared late 1988 -- present status unknown - believed to be
operating from UK.
new  project and office images
Linda Levinson (USA) - Security
new project and office image
Dr Nigel Llwyd William Helyer (AUS) - OM/Celestial Empire
2 MP3 files to download; 'Virgin' & 'Red Monkey Ass'


The Department of Revolutionary Nostalgia
Derek Kreckler (AUS) -  Mental Health Worker
redecorated office image
Rosalind Brodsky (UK/BAVARIA) - International Realty Service
2 MP3 files to download; 'Knocking on Lenin's Door' and 'The Communist
Manifesto'
Bronia Iwanczak (AUS) - Golfing Instructor
Havana Golf Club - location shots


The Department of Future Projections
Bruce Checefsky (USA) -  Director of Resistance
new report - 'A few days before my abduction'


The Local Unit of Missing Links
Jacky Redgate (AUS) - Culinary Photographer
office image
Ranu Mukherjee/0rphan drift (UK) -  Lab Technician
new equestrian project


The Department of Global Nostalgia
Adrian Dannatt (USA) - Tea Person
office image


The Department of Dislocated Memory
New members:
Hans Hamid Rasmussen,  Thomas Saenger  &  Theodor Barth (NORWAY) -
artist, artist and researcher
Hans Hamid Rasmussen: born in Algers of Norwegian mother and Algerian
father - parents radical left freedom fighters. Theodor Barth: born in
Norwegian urban bourgeoisie - lived most of childhood abroad (parents
diplomats); Thomas Saenger: born in Fredrikstad by Norwegian parents
(grandparents German and Italian), parents are both artists. Hans Hamid
and Thomas went to the Academy of Fine Arts together. Exhibits,
performances and events in Norway and abroad (Europe). Hans Hamid:
macro-installations and micro-embroidery. Thomas: mixed media middle
gates. Theo has done fieldworks in Lithuania, Croatia and Bosnia -
otherwise, projects together with Hans Hamid and Thomas grounded in an
ongoing sui generis séance. Recent spin-off projects: "Baphomet" in
Metronome 7 The Bastard (ed. Clémentine Déliss); permanent installation
Da’at outside the City Hall of Fredrikstad, ‘Atopic Church’ in the
exhibit Refuge at the Henie Onstad Art Centre (cur. Gavin Jantjes).
project proposal
Rebecca Cummins (USA) - Research Analyst
office image
Linda Marie Walker (AUS/NTH. CYPRUS) - Archivist of Spatial Deliquency
and Irresponsible Writing
Spatial Report  no. 3 and office image


Department of Global Disenchantment
New members:
Helen Grace (AUS) - Loss Assessor & Keeper of the Stockpile of Human
Devaluation
Helen Grace has been working for a number of years in Lost Structures
and Ruined Ideas. She recently joined a New Team engaged  in policy
development for Future Projections in the development of a National
Innovation Policy to utilize abandoned concepts, poorly thought out
policy statements, unread policy documents and discarded Great Ideas in
a major new Centre for Materials Transfer and Relocation, to be built on
a wasteland in the greater Sydney area, alongside a proposed new Arts &
Cultural Precinct. Her work in Loss Assessment has won her major
commissions and she has successfully tendered for a multi-million dollar
Systems Analysis Contract developing numerological and nominalist
probability data for High Risk Investment in Equine Applications & other
Gaming Scenarios.


The International Department of Local Aesthetics
Melinda Rackham (AUS) - Mistress of Virtual Relations
new office image
Jacqueline Millner (AUS) - Aesthetic Arbitrator
Beauty questionnaire (please send replies to j.millner at uws.edu.au)
Richard Grayson (AUS/UK) - Night Manager
MP3 file to download;'Staying up late'


yours,

Suzanne Treister and Bronia Iwanczak

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Suzanne Treister and Bronia Iwanczak
Directors
ICOLS
International Corporation of Lost Structures
http://www.icols.org

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