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“Today the enemy is not called Empire or Capital. It’s called Democracy.” * Alan Badiou “Democracy is becoming more an empty ritual, devoid of the ability to deliver true alternatives and true choices.” Franco Bifo Berardi “A lie is the beginning of a new story. That’s why we love Art.” Oscar Wilde ONE MAN ONE [...]

A Virus is haunting the busy communication highways of the social networking sphere: the virus of Seppukoo. The infection has been started off last month with a viral marketing campaign for the launch of the homonym notWorking platform Seppukoo.com. The alert has now reached the pandemic state. Nobody’s safe. Video (Readymedia for Seppukoo.com) (How to commit a [...]

I am the Empire in the last of its decline, That sees the tall, fair-haired Barbarians pass,–the while Composing indolent acrostics, in a style Of gold, with languid sunshine dancing in each line.

Nothing more to say: silence is golden. Let’s just follow it.

The coins are finished and the game is over.

According to the first and the second Euclidean postulates, two points are joined by a straight line segment that can be extended indefinitely in a straight line. Les Liens Invisibles .com is the homonym, self referential, ongoing collection of invisible | broken | non-existent | conceptual | zen links by the imaginary art group Les [...]

Wandering around the geolocated matrix and looking always for the same directions, sometimes it happens to get lost and to wonder if there’s any way out of here. Inquiring one of the most popular web mapping service, the imaginary art group Les Liens Invisibles found three spiritual pilgrimage routes ready to be shared, printed, and [...]

Waiting the end of the end. Enjoy this small video piece.

“The world is my idea”: this is a truth which holds good for everything that lives and knows, though man alone can bring it into reflective and abstract consciousness.” Arthur Schopenhauer from “The world as will and representation” Since ancient times cartography has been used to describe the world as a geometric ensemble of measurable [...]

We’ve just released a small brand new artwork. It’s a poetic declaration about how we got too close to Duchamp’s bicycle. Go visit it here

Les Liens Invisibles has recently participated with a fake-based “imaginary intervention” to the italian Exhibition “Luoghi dell’Utopia” curated by BAU art organization: eleven big reproduction of the most representative (italian and international) art magazines gave the illusion of the presence of the artwork in the show with a sarcastic collage of hyper-intellectual articles.

While the olympic curtain softly falls on the chinese repression in Tibet, the imaginary art-group Les Liens Invisibles celebrates the upcoming Olympic Games with a new fake-based hybridation between art, activism and advertising strategies. Exploiting the global visibility of the Olympic Brand, the ambiguous www.peking2008.com domain is used by Les Liens Invisibles as a powerful [...]

Disillusion 2.0? You were told that a new democracy of communication was possible, that the lies of corporate media were to disappear and that your voice was going to play an active role in the formation of public discourse. You were deluded into believing that even the world, this world, would become a better place [...]

In 1964, italian artists Alberto Grifi and Gianfranco Baruchello gave birth to one of the most interesting and significant experiments in the fields of art and cinema: “Uncertain Verification”, a paradoxical assemblage of cinematographic extracts taken from over 450.000 feet of Hollywood footage from the 50s, originally destined to be destroyed and purchased for the [...]

This strike takes the move against the decision taken after a point of order in the Italian Parliament promoted by Luca Volontè, leader of the Catholic parliamentary group, to shutdown the site of the collective Molleindustria. The object of the contest was a game (“Operation: Pedopriest”) made to denounce the connivance of the higher positions [...]

After several episodes of intollerance and violence in the italian country town Lucca ascribed to young neofascists living in the zone, the canditate major of the coalition between centre and right-wing parties Mauro Favilla was going to win the second ballot with the not repudiated votes of the extreme right-wing party “Forza Nuova”. To remark [...]

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Dot Star Generator Beyond the infosphere, the stars again … Browse the net as a new, mysterious and complex constellation of meaning. Dot Star Generator is a web-based artwork by d3dalus and the imaginary art-group Les Liens Invisibles http://dotstar.lesliensinvisibles.org