Or, to complicate matters more (in true committee stylee) why not make it accessible via a podcast or radio broadcast on Resonance FM or the Architectural Associations excellent aair.fm? I think it would be very interesting (not to mention fun) to record, for instance, the entire committee chanting the manifesto, singing it, screaming it or whispering it, all together or solo...
Or broadcast it publicly? Even get together to perform it publicly - just in time for Christmas caroling? We could compose the piece as committee, eg: Cornelius Cardew's Scratch Orchestra...
Thus we need no money - I have all the recording and editing hardware/software we may need - only logistical support, and some type of organisation to get us all in a room together (well, at least most of us) Then again, for those who wish hardcopy, we could have it 'inscribed' on CD, Cassette, Vinyl in limited edition. Then we need to create a meme, a viral advertising campaign for the public good.
What do you think?
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I think giving our symptoms some kind of viral outlet is good. The problem with stickers is that they 'turn' no one/nothing. It makes much more sense to launch our catastrophe in a way that retains some spirit of situationist bravado. I can't see how stickers move beyond self-advertisement, and symbolically they are good for nothing. Either as you said, some kind of Wellesian broadcast or I thought a) turning the manifesto into a faux-memo from some Environmental Contingency Planning Committee and launching it via e mail or b) couching it as some kind of 'lost data' and leaving it on trains/the tube and so on, which chimes with the whole 'leakage' of death stuff and mocks the government's habit of letting our top secret info out of the bag.
Clodagh... I think both those ideas are pure genius, not to mention cheap and easy to implement. Pretending it's a top secret memo is hilarious.
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