Secretary Randall M. Packer of the US Department of Art & Technology will conclude his nationwide tour at Johns Hopkins University in Washington, DC to deliver the “Speech for the End of Time.” The event will be a direct response to war cries from the Administration that are leading us quickly and inevitably down the path to a day of reckoning.

In Secretary Packer’s tour – which has included Los Angeles, Boulder, and New York City – he has announced the activation of the Experimental Party, the artist-based political party, the “party of experimentation,” and its latest initiative, “10,000 Acts of Artistic Mediation.”

In the “Speech for the End of Time,” Secretary Packer will call on coalition artists to “inspire other artists into action by undergoing aesthetic operation as a form of magic designed as a mediation between our strange hostile world and the human spirit.” For more than 100 years, the avant-garde has gone forth from its studios and garrets to fight for utopian aspirations and social transformation. Today’s artists have entered a fierce struggle against a grave danger, the existential darkness that has possessed our government, that grips its soul.

For according to William Burroughs, “Weapons that change consciousness could call the war game in question.”