Micronations Travelling Agency (YKON)

exhibiting at Sparwasser HQ,
February 2nd - 7th 2006
visiting TNR's Anständige Vertretung Berlin February 5th

Philippe Laserre has pointed out that »the phenomenon of micro-nations can be located between a joke and a serious vision of the future«. The term »micronation«, which YKON is working on, has been applied to almost anything from invented kingdoms, model states, cybertopias, libertarian oases to real existing miniature states. Each micronation attempts in its own way to create a zone of autonomy. Some of them even challenge the definition of statehood itself.

As part of the exhibition you could sign up for a "Micronations Manifesting in Berlin"-tour with the Micronation Travelling Agency. The idea of the tours was to extend the topic of Micronations with the surroundings of the gallery space and to locate and to pin point related phenomena in Berlin.

YKON (Sasha Huber, Tellervo Kalleinen, Oliver Kochta-Kalleinen, Petri Saarikko) is a Helsinki based artist group which has been formed to convene the 2nd Summit of Micronations at the Brioni Islands in 2007.

Transnational Republic representatives:

Jakob Zoche, Tammo Rist

For more info:
www.ykon.org
www.muu.fi/amorph03
www.sparwasserhq.de