Rules of the Image

 

 

 

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The society of secret Images is a collection of images that will belong to the community of Gerland, in Lyon. The collection seeks the opposite to a hierarchical preservation of proper names, the longing of non-degradable matter and the fixation of concepts. It will be an active collection where the donated image provokes an empirical exercise that will generate a second and socially produced image.

The physical space that houses the collection is a room in a family apartment. We call this site the Event Horizon, where the only possibility of observing the donated images before they disappear into invisibility takes place.

 

The circuit of the image:

• The donated image enters The Society of Secret Images.

• The donated image is exhibited (or not) at The Event Horizon before being withdrawn into secrecy.

• The Invisible College produces an empirical exercise to activate the donated image.

• The empirical exercise’s outcome is a new self-produced image by the society.

• The socially and self-produced image enters the collection.

• The donated image could stay to join the self-produced image or leave the collection (leave = given back, destroyed or erased).

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​The donated images should have a root in phenomena that were non-visible for the eye, and they became visible –they were pushed to a visible surface– thanks to the use of technology, such as a microscope, a telescope or artistic representation.

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The donated image could be in any format available. The image could even be secretly whispered into someone’s ear or a revolutionary call shouted in the streets.

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The Sourcerer doesn’t have to be the author of the image they donate.

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​The donated image will only become public at the Event Horizon. The only way for The Eye of Mercury to see the donated images is through its physical presence.

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​The donated image cannot be published by The Society or by the artists in the press, books, websites, etc., unless the Sourcerers allows it after a specific request from The Society or the artists.

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​The future of the donated image after serving its catalyst purpose for producing an image through collective imagination and labour, will be decided between the Sourcerers and The Society.

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​The self-produced image of the Society could be exhibited or published by the Society or the artists of the project whenever they want.