From the same people who brought us the Helsinki Complaints Choir comes the Brioni 2007 Summit of Micronations.
The works of the YKON group are situations rather than objects. The key thing is their approach: people as social communities producing speech and ideas. The group typically brings together different elements to create situations somewhere between serious and playful, even absurd sometimes.
Their booklet (PDF) produced for the M8 mini-summit at the Singapore biennale in 2006 gives an insight into their thinking:
After a long period of oppression, localism is back, but in a more democratic and environmentalist form. If we are not in some sense even living in a time of dialects, perma-culture, and village thinking, a powerful wave of admiration and interest for the small and the superlocal is rising.<br/><br/>On this growing wave of consciousness, micronations gather an aura of pioneering (some central tenets of) the spirit of our era.<br/><br/>Welcome to the ocean of ‘differentialism’, ‘federationalism’, ‘segregationalism’, and ‘autonomism’. From out of the blue, the small and wild ones surf in, tanned by their freedom of distant, yet not found shores, untouched by the painful prisons of everyday bureaucracy which all big states, communities, and alliances from China to Coca-Cola, United Nations, and even overgrown computer game communities have to surrender to.<br/><br/>The times are changing, who knows how and to what extent, but at this peculiar moment of world history the rebellious Hobbits of nationalism and state ideology are a newly-found wonder, bringing us a scent of far away islands with necklaces of utopian promises draped around their necks.