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2008 Fall

Robert Boyd: Conspiracy Countdown

Robert Boyd’s Conspiracy Theory, the first part of his forthcoming project TOMORROW PEOPLE, is a synchronized two-channel video installation. Located in the Corner Gallery on the first floor, Conspiracy Theory addresses issues of social paranoia and civil distrust in an era of questionable politics using excerpts from syndicated radio talk show hosts, international conspiracists, amateur documentary filmmakers, and the mysterious Commander X. For this issue of the P.S.1 Newspaper, Boyd has submitted a top ten “Conspiracy Countdown.”

 10. Welt am Draht (World On a Wire), 1973

The made-for-TV science fiction film by Rainer Werner Fassbinder portrays a computer programmer who is working on a project called Simulacron that is able to simulate a full featured reality, only to discover that he, and the world he inhabits, is a simulation.

9. Secrets of the Matrix, 2004

David Icke presents a 6-hour lecture about “a network of interbreeding (reptilian) bloodlines that have been pursuing an agenda for thousands of years to impose a globally centralized fascist state with total control and surveillance of the population.”

8. UFO Abductions: A Global Phenomenon, 1998

Michael Hesemann’s documentary about alien abductees features Rauni-Leena Luukanen-Kilde, a former medical officer from Finland; Whitley Strieber, the author of Communion; and Louis Turi, a metaphysical doctor who was abducted while en route to his brother’s disco in the south of France.

7. Anthrax, Smallpox, Vaccinations and the Mark of the Beast, 2005

Leonard Horowitz presents “little known facts regarding threatened outbreaks; the science, economics, and global politics underlying bioterrorism and forced vaccinations,” and the mark of the beast.

6. Loose Change: 1^st Edition, 2005

Dylan Avery theorizes in an online expose that “9-11 was an inside job.”

5. Dark Secrets: Inside Bohemian Grove, 2000

Alex Jones infiltrates the Bohemian Grove in Monte 

Rio, C.A. to expose “the occult playground of the global elite.” 

4. The Strecker Memorandum, 1988

Robert B. Strecker theorizes that AIDS is a man-made disease that was introduced into the human population through medical injection programs. 

3. Communion, 1989

Film adaptation, starring Christopher Walken, of Whitley Strieber’s bestselling novel about the author’s personal experiences of being abducted by aliens.

2. The Secret Underground Lectures of Commander X, 2004

A retired military intelligence official reveals the “shocking truth about the New World Order, UFOs, Mind Control and more.”

1. V: The Original Miniseries, 1983 

A race of reptilian aliens attempt to take over Earth.