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  • past including today
  • darken the circle
  • iswas
  • in here stands it
  • nowthen
  • thatthis
  • therehere
  • my am i
  • the object hurts the space
  • inventory
  • postface
  • put your ears on
  • white noise

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Statements and possible answers from a psychometric test (being "moderately" "mildly" "severely" and "not at all") are randomly shuffled.
Limited edition seven inch single made for RaebervonStenglin 2013.

past including today

Psychometric test statements are read out with the word "I" replaced with "we".
Limited edition seven inch single made for RaebervonStenglin 2013.

darken the circle

Generative program which endlessly mixes the statement "if it is this then it is that" in one room and "if it was that then it was this" in an adjacent room.
First exhibited at RabervonStenglin, Zurich 2013.

iswas 1 iswas 2

Generative program which endlessly re-orders the words in the statement " in here stands it ".
First exhibited on the Spike Island website for the exhibition " in here stands it " 2012

A computer program builds nonsense sentences around the words "now" and "then".
First exhibited at Spike Island, Bristol 2012.

nowthen

A computer program builds nonsense sentences around the words "that" and "this".
First exhibited at Spike Island, Bristol 2012.

thatthis

A computer program builds nonsense sentences around the words "there" and "here".
First exhibited at Spike Island, Bristol 2012.

therehere

Words related to Miami are placed next to words describing the weather in Stockport, Manchester. These recorded words then trigger, through a computer program, samples from a Roland TR-808.
First exhibited at Art Basel Fair, Miami Beach 2012

my am i

A computer program builds nonsense sentences around the words "the object" and "the space".
First exhibited at RaebervonStenglin, Zurich 2011

the object hurts the space

The Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory (MMPI) psychometric test is read out loud and recorded. The recording is looped.
For another poetic use of the MMPI, see Craig Dworkin's LEGION, Against Expression: An Anthology of Conceptual Writing (Northwestern UP, 2011): 190 et seq.
First exhibited at Krome Gallery, Berlin 2011

The postface from the book "Six Years: the Dematerialization of Art Object from 1966 to 1972" by Lucy R. Lippard is cut up and re-ordered endlessly.
First exhibited at Essays and observations, Berlin 2010

postface

Associative reactions to a selection of paintings are randomly ordered by a computer program.
First exhibited at CEAAC, Strasbourg 2010

Associative reactions to the words "white" are randomly ordered in the left channel and reactions to the word "noise" are ordered in the right.
First exhibited in Visite Ma Tente, Berlin 2009

white noise