The Status Sweepstake.

Saturday 22 January 2005

@ Decoy, 22 Green St, Digbeth, Birmingham B12 0NE

Modelled upon The United States' Visa lottery:

http://www.usgreencardlottery.org/

The Duo Collective:

http://duo.irational.org

present The Status Sweepstake:

http://status.irational.org/status_sweepstake/

taking place during the DIY CULTURE festival:

http://stuffit.org/diy/

Timetable:

  12:00 Presentation of the Status Project - http://status.irational.org/
  13:00 Last chance to obtain statuses in and around town.
  18:00 Picking of winner and awarding of new identity.

Instructions:

During the proceeding week, create one or more true
statuses for the following identity:

  Unisex Name: Terry Smith
  Date of birth: 1 April 1976
  Postal address: 581 Pershore Road, Birmingham, B29 7EL, United Kingdom.

The status project manual may be of use.

http://status.irational.org/cgi-bin/statuses/statuses.pl

Collaboration and trading before and during the event is
encouraged.

Then on Saturday, bring your statuses to DIY CULTURE festival
to be entered in The Status Sweepstake.

A winner will be randomly chosen from the participants and will
receive all statuses entered and will thus be furnished with
a functioning alternate identity.

Fictional statuses may be used to obtained legitimate statuses,
but may not be entered in the draw. For example, you can create
a fake student card to obtain an ISIC card, but we will only
accept the ISIC card.

Best of luck.