Media, activism and debate platform running concurrent to Documenta X. Utterly new to the complex logistical dictats associated with events production, in 1997 Mute enthusiastically agreed to take part in Hybrid Workspace, a gigantic event-athon running alongside Documenta X and spanning so many weeks it felt more like the whole year than the whole summer. Mute’s theme was Technoscience and in spite of our inexperience we managed to collate some relevant material. Core to this was the Direct Biocracy Questionnairee, which questioned medical authority in everyday life, and compiled hundreds of answer sheets passed back by visitors. Mute friends, including John Hutnyk and Armin Medosch together with Manu Luksch, also contributed their work. The project fed into Mute issue 9, whose theme was also Technoscience.

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