The beige Institute™

A cultural, editorial and research institution.


What remains of a life
once every risk
has been removed?
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Born from fiction, the Institute operates in the real.
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It develops diagnostic systems, publications, archives and objects for examining desire, attachment, self-delusion and belief.

Its central subject is Beige: a state of reduced contrast, softened conflict, acceptable surfaces and almost invisible decisions.

Beige makes colour visible.
Beige can also make colour unnecessary.

FOUNDING RESEARCH SYSTEM


bEIGE DESIRE INDEX™ — FIFTY SHADES OF BEIGE

‍A diagnostic system for people who want to feel less

Fifty nearly indistinguishable shades tracing desire from first attraction to complete disappearance.
Each shade identifies a different condition of attachment, restraint, protection, self-delusion or belief.
The publication treats colour as an emotional classification system: precise, absurd, intimate and almost impossible to verify.


PROTOTYPE 001


THE BEIGE CUBE™

‍A System For Keeping Everything Under Control

An institutional object composed of nearly indistinguishable tonal fields.
Resolved, it may still appear unresolved.
Disordered, it may appear complete.
The solved state cannot be distinguished from collapse.

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