Pindices: Making Individual Political Activity Visible
A project by sociologist Andrew Barry and artist Lucy Kimbell
--Website, gallery project and live research
Part of 'Making Things Public: Atmospheres of Democracy', an exhibition
curated by Bruno Latour and Peter Weibel at the Center for Art and Media
(ZKM), Karlsruhe, Germany, March 20-August 7, 2005
How political have you been this week, based on acts you have performed? How
much of a citizen? Pindices seeks to make individual political activity
visible, but not in the ways typically measured by polling agencies or using
the normal methods of social science. Rather than looking at political
ideologies, institutions, groups or identities, in our project we start with
the individual and their acts, and invite participants to make public a
reckoning of their everyday political or citizenship activity by creating
their own personal political indices during 'Making Things Public'.
Somewhere between a public art project and bad social science, Pindices
offers ways of thinking about what matters to individuals and how this is
made visible.
Set up your own pindex at http://www.pindices.org from 20 March
http://makingthingspublic.zkm.de/
Andrew Barry is Reader in Sociology at Goldsmiths College, Director of the
Centre for the Study of Invention and Social Process and the author of
Political Machines: Governing a Technological Society. Lucy Kimbell is an
artist and designer and AHRB research fellow at The Ruskin School of Drawing
and Fine Art, University of Oxford. The project is supported by the Arts and
Humanities Research Board, ZKM, Goldsmiths College and The Ruskin School of
Drawing and Fine Art.
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