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From Rhizome Artbase
The Museum of Rumour is a fictive work that presents ongoing 'pataphysical research into the study of rumour. It uses a sort of 'gay science' of multiple and contrary theories - from the physics of motion to the theory of six degrees of separation.
In particular the museum charts the uncanny connections of the so-called 'small world effect' by mapping the intersections of rumours through the nodal point of Gertrude Stein a major figure of rumour.