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A PSA for your health from the Ministry of Information

Citizens - A gift from the Ministry Of Information.

Download and print off this leaflet so that you are never caught unawares by Virulent Novelty!

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VIRULENT NOVELTY is a major threat to the safety & security of our country. It is responsible for moral & ethical decay, an increase in alienation, suicide rates & deviant sexual behaviour.

Recent research from Government Scientists at the Ministry indicates that outbreaks of VIRULENT NOVELTY can be directly correlated to an upsurge in degenerate behaviour. Medical studies report increased stress levels, insomnia and depression. VIRULENT NOVELTY is spread through unregulated informational contact. This is what scientific experts call VIRULENT EXPERIENCE.

“VIRULENT EXPERENCE is information & experience which induces the sufferer to relentlessly pursue meaningless novelty. Sufferers often become obsessive and detached from reality, as well as increasingly isolated & reckless in their pursuit of dangerous emotional stimuli. They just can’t get no satisfaction”

SUSPECT SYMPTOMS:
- Obsessive compulsive monitoring of emotional identities via meaningless social connections
- rapid-cycle stimuli
- overeating
- Boredom, listlessness and generalised nausea.
- Rampant sexual appetite
- Decreased empathy & chronic dissatisfaction -
- Near-pathological desire for external validation (existentially)
- Increased stress; tendency towards depression
- Need to stand out, extreme fashion choices and adaptation of flesh with scarifactions and or piercings.
- Drug Use
- Scruffy clothing, unkempt appearance.
- Slurring of speech overuse of slang or colloquialisms
- Emotions associated with feeling unloved or broken hearted.
- Uncontrollable crying fits.

BE VIGILANT> STAY SAFE>REPORT & BE REWARDED

PREVENTION:
The filthy degenerate whose unrestricted emotions once threatened to tear apart the fabric of society are no longer permitted to pollute the experiences we share. The administration provided by the Ministry of Information has ensured that the most Virulent poisonous forms of information and experience are banned and restricted by the Index. Only interact with Ministry Of Information feeds, or those feeds run by Ministry Approved Experience Vendors. If in doubt, consult Sure Heart guidelines and await communion with Blake.

BLAKE will analyse any potential risk and extract and sanitise the area of your mind infested with virulent information for your Safety, Security & Sanity. We trust you to report any sites of VIRULENT EXPERIENCE immediately. BLAKE will then flag the issue and despatch Ministry investigators to the scene as soon as possible.

Many thanks, BLAKE!

Do not exceed your Sure Heart Bandwidth, any attempt to bypass Sure Heart program code will cause a medically induced coma for your protection. Your bandwidth plan is specifically tailored for your individual needs. Do not share unregulated Experience – cross contamination may occur. Always remain within your personal informational environment. Regularly consult BLAKE for the very latest updates and patches.
Remember – BLAKE is everywhere, for your safety and convenience. Access BLAKE directly, any time you feel unsure.

Reality will never again be diffused with worthless useless information presented as addictive Novelty. In filtering and purifying our minds of poisonous self destructive intent England has achieved what was once thought impossible.

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FoolishPeople are currently inviting submissions from artists working in all mediums to create artworks and installations for our forthcoming exhibition, Virulent Experience, a unique collaboration between Conway Hall and FoolishPeople. This is a fantastic opportunity to showcase your work to a wide audience in an historic Central London venue throughout August 2012. Virulent Experience explores the evolution and devolution of ethics, morals and the impact to the mind, imagination and free will of humans via a fictional future version of London on the eve of the 2040 Olympics. FoolishPeople will transform the historic Conway Hall – a landmark of London’s independent, intellectual, political and cultural life – into The Museum of Virulent Experience, housing the entire banned index of thoughts, emotions and desires in an age where Information Prohibition has begun. We are looking for artists working in any medium to create a series of works that exist within the narrative and fictional world of the Museum of Virulent Experience. We will also accept proposals for completed works that fit within the context and are pertinent to the piece. All artists featured within the Virulent Experience exhibition will be included in the exhibition book published by Weaponized, this further explores the themes and context of the project. Please contact art@foolishpeople.org to obtain the full artist’s brief. Virulent Experience Art © Jase Daniels © 2012. facebook.com/jasedanielsart

FoolishPeople are currently inviting submissions from artists working in all mediums to create artworks and installations for our forthcoming exhibition, Virulent Experience, a unique collaboration between Conway Hall and FoolishPeople.

This is a fantastic opportunity to showcase your work to a wide audience in an historic Central London venue throughout August 2012.

Virulent Experience explores the evolution and devolution of ethics, morals and the impact to the mind, imagination and free will of humans via a fictional future version of London on the eve of the 2040 Olympics.

FoolishPeople will transform the historic Conway Hall – a landmark of London’s independent, intellectual, political and cultural life – into The Museum of Virulent Experience, housing the entire banned index of thoughts, emotions and desires in an age where Information Prohibition has begun.

We are looking for artists working in any medium to create a series of works that exist within the narrative and fictional world of the Museum of Virulent Experience.

We will also accept proposals for completed works that fit within the context and are pertinent to the piece.

All artists featured within the Virulent Experience exhibition will be included in the exhibition book published by Weaponized, this further explores the themes and context of the project. Please contact art@foolishpeople.org to obtain the full artist’s brief.

Virulent Experience Art © Jase Daniels © 2012. facebook.com/jasedanielsart

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London 14/5/12 Announcing – A unique collaboration between Conway Hall and FoolishPeople, Virulent Experience is an immersive theatre and art event that explores the evolution and devolution of ethics, morals and the impact to the mind, imagination and free will of humans via a fictional future version of London on the eve of the 2040 Olympics.  FoolishPeople will transform the historic Conway Hall – a landmark of London’s independent, intellectual, political and cultural life – into The Museum of Virulent Experience, housing the entire banned index of thoughts, emotions and desires in an age where Information Prohibition has begun. John Harrigan – Artistic Director of FoolishPeople and writer of Virulent Experience comments: “I am immensely proud to be working with Conway Hall. Their work has never been more important; providing a space for free thought within society is imperative if we are to be brave enough to imagine potential future utopias, where shared ethics and morals are vital to humankind. With Virulent Experience, FP will continue the work we started with Dead Language and transport our audience to one of the many possible futures we may inherit if society and populist culture continues to attempt to alter the perception, imagination and free will of the human mind.” Dr Jim Walsh – CEO at Conway Hall says: “I am delighted that Conway Hall is working with FoolishPeople on this hugely important and innovative project. The ethical issues that Virulent Experience will explore, and provide an immediate focus for, can no longer be overlooked. It is vital for all us to come to terms with, and start to question, where the ever increasing flow of information will lead and at what cost. The creativity that FoolishPeople bring to this issue is second to none and I am overjoyed that Conway Hall can play its part in this unique and World class endeavour.” Virulent Experience opens on Monday 6th August 2012, and runs throughout August. Tickets available from www.conwayhall.org.uk/virulent-experience ABOUT VIRULENT EXPERIENCE London 2040, society is crippled under the weight of a population addicted to novelty and impermanence. Nothing lasts when every dream or nightmare imagined can be crafted and created. To stem the loss of reason in a post-real world, time and access to the ever expanding human experience is restricted. New forms of experience are policed by the Ministry of Information, in a last ditch attempt to control a world that is eating its own meaning. Experience of that which is categorised as NOVELTY is monitored under the Human Emotional Experience Act of 2032, where total access to information is strictly limited within a monthly data plan and the most virulent forms of experience and knowledge are banned. The age of Information Prohibition has begun. Forced back into the real world, language devolves into hybrid forms, to cater for a generation who only understand meaning when communicated in hash tags and status updates. Yet there is one place where all you can eat reality still exists and every banned emotion, experience, dream and nightmare can still be made real: the Virulent Museum of Human Experience, housing the entire banned index of thoughts, emotions and desires. Now, on the eve of the opening ceremony of the 2040 London Olympics, Karla, a certifiable Experience Junkie, who has spent a lifetime imprisoned by her out of control desires has come to the museum. There, she must convince Socrates, hoodie and outlaw philosopher, a living novelty born of the 2011 London riots, to help her release a secret hidden deep inside the museum. A machine which may save Karla from her own mind and offer the human, a wayward animal, a method with which to regain the truth it has lost. NOTES TO EDITORS: ABOUT CONWAY HALL Conway Hall is a non-profit venue hosting a variety of lectures, classes, performances, community and social events. It is renowned as a hub for London’s independent intellectual and cultural life. More information at www.conwayhall.org.uk ABOUT FOOLISH PEOPLE FoolishPeople create and engineer immersive events, theatre, collaborative live art, books and film.
 Over a number of years, we have developed a practice Theatre of Manifestation that transforms entire buildings into dreamlike worlds that living characters inhabit. FoolishPeople has collaborated with hundreds of artists worldwide and produced work in conventional theatres, galleries and site-specific venues throughout the UK, also touring to America and Amsterdam. Our work has been sought out and commissioned by organisations such as the BBC, Secret Cinema, Arcola Theatre and the Institute of Contemporary Arts. FoolishPeople is currently in post-production on their first feature film Strange Factories: http://www.strangefactories.com PRESS CONTACTS: Lucy HarriganProducer
 e: lucena@foolishpeople.org t: 07894 021108 Dr Jim WalshChief Executive Officer e: jim@ethicalsoc.org.uk t: 07786 968250 Virulent Experience Art © Jase Daniels © 2012. facebook.com/jasedanielsart

London 14/5/12 Announcing – A unique collaboration between Conway Hall and FoolishPeople, Virulent Experience is an immersive theatre and art event that explores the evolution and devolution of ethics, morals and the impact to the mind, imagination and free will of humans via a fictional future version of London on the eve of the 2040 Olympics. 

FoolishPeople will transform the historic Conway Hall – a landmark of London’s independent, intellectual, political and cultural life – into The Museum of Virulent Experience, housing the entire banned index of thoughts, emotions and desires in an age where Information Prohibition has begun.

John Harrigan – Artistic Director of FoolishPeople and writer of Virulent Experience comments:

“I am immensely proud to be working with Conway Hall. Their work has never been more important; providing a space for free thought within society is imperative if we are to be brave enough to imagine potential future utopias, where shared ethics and morals are vital to humankind. With Virulent Experience, FP will continue the work we started with Dead Language and transport our audience to one of the many possible futures we may inherit if society and populist culture continues to attempt to alter the perception, imagination and free will of the human mind.”


Dr Jim Walsh – CEO at Conway Hall says:

“I am delighted that Conway Hall is working with FoolishPeople on this hugely important and innovative project. The ethical issues that Virulent Experience will explore, and provide an immediate focus for, can no longer be overlooked. It is vital for all us to come to terms with, and start to question, where the ever increasing flow of information will lead and at what cost. The creativity that FoolishPeople bring to this issue is second to none and I am overjoyed that Conway Hall can play its part in this unique and World class endeavour.”

Virulent Experience opens on Monday 6th August 2012, and runs throughout August.

Tickets available from www.conwayhall.org.uk/virulent-experience


ABOUT VIRULENT EXPERIENCE

London 2040, society is crippled under the weight of a population addicted to novelty and impermanence. Nothing lasts when every dream or nightmare imagined can be crafted and created. To stem the loss of reason in a post-real world, time and access to the ever expanding human experience is restricted. New forms of experience are policed by the Ministry of Information, in a last ditch attempt to control a world that is eating its own meaning.

Experience of that which is categorised as NOVELTY is monitored under the Human Emotional Experience Act of 2032, where total access to information is strictly limited within a monthly data plan and the most virulent forms of experience and knowledge are banned.

The age of Information Prohibition has begun.

Forced back into the real world, language devolves into hybrid forms, to cater for a generation who only understand meaning when communicated in hash tags and status updates.

Yet there is one place where all you can eat reality still exists and every banned emotion, experience, dream and nightmare can still be made real: the Virulent Museum of Human Experience, housing the entire banned index of thoughts, emotions and desires.

Now, on the eve of the opening ceremony of the 2040 London Olympics, Karla, a certifiable Experience Junkie, who has spent a lifetime imprisoned by her out of control desires has come to the museum. There, she must convince Socrates, hoodie and outlaw philosopher, a living novelty born of the 2011 London riots, to help her release a secret hidden deep inside the museum. A machine which may save Karla from her own mind and offer the human, a wayward animal, a method with which to regain the truth it has lost.

NOTES TO EDITORS:

ABOUT CONWAY HALL
Conway Hall is a non-profit venue hosting a variety of lectures, classes, performances, community and social events. It is renowned as a hub for London’s independent intellectual and cultural life.

More information at www.conwayhall.org.uk

ABOUT FOOLISH PEOPLE
FoolishPeople create and engineer immersive events, theatre, collaborative live art, books and film.
 Over a number of years, we have developed a practice Theatre of Manifestation that transforms entire buildings into dreamlike worlds that living characters inhabit.

FoolishPeople has collaborated with hundreds of artists worldwide and produced work in conventional theatres, galleries and site-specific venues throughout the UK, also touring to America and Amsterdam. Our work has been sought out and commissioned by organisations such as the BBC, Secret Cinema, Arcola Theatre and the Institute of Contemporary Arts.

FoolishPeople is currently in post-production on their first feature film Strange Factories: http://www.strangefactories.com

PRESS CONTACTS:

Lucy Harrigan
Producer

e: lucena@foolishpeople.org
t: 07894 021108 

Dr Jim Walsh
Chief Executive Officer
e: jim@ethicalsoc.org.uk
t: 07786 968250

Virulent Experience Art © Jase Daniels © 2012. facebook.com/jasedanielsart

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