Drawing on anthropologist Mary Douglas’s interpretations of sociologist Ludwik Fleck, the exhibition juxtaposes works that were produced in collective environments in the 1990s with new structures and films produced alone. As such the exhibition reflects on the contradictions that arise between the individual and the group in relation to the production of art.

The title of the exhibition refers to Fleck and Douglas’s investigation of the way a thought style links group members via their shared ideas, how they communicate and the methods they employ. These ideas affect the art’s subjectivity and are reflected in a series of new text works.

A central work in the exhibition, A broadcast from 1887 on the Subject of our Time, was originally produced in 1996 and involved a “broadcast” directed towards a utopian community.

The content of the broadcast is taken from Edward Bellamy’s book Looking Backward (1887), which includes an account of a radio broadcast before the invention of the medium.