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Art and writing practice and theory—and rug analyses

Secret Ballet

A political thriller (2004) composed entirely of example sentences of the Collins COBUILD English Language Dictionary (1987)

'Secret Ballet' appears to be the easy-to-read autobiography of Jane Swallow, a (fictional) conservative politician. The book describes Jane's troubled private and family life, her creative ambitions, personal intrigues and affairs as well as her clumsy attempts at political mud-slinging and character assassination.

The work's premise is the reconstruction of a shattered mastertext thought of as dispersed across the entire dictionary.

By bringing together the then current topics and phrases, "Secret Ballet" reflects the totality of ideas and opinions of the late 60's, 70's and early 80's.

Additional information about Secret ballet

Killing Time

A novel based on (all) books titled 'Killing Time'.

Other work

Photo composites, a composite text, a pixel drawing, etc.

• The rug (the slave);
• Miscellaneous photographs;
• Strassenszenen;
• Hafentreppe;
• Fancy;
• Tate;
• Photography: Here is how, etc.

Probe

Probing into other people's stuff

• Psychedelic art;
• diCorcia: choice, non-event and truth;
• Alexander's Pattern language;
• Neumanns Filme (DE);

Trip

Texts around information systems, public transport, interchange engineering (mosty by John Lindsay)

• Information Systems—Fundamentals and Issues;
• Suburban satyrs;
• You are here, etc.
• Where shall we go? how should I know?, etc.

Rugs

Rug analyses: Attribution, design, technical description, and photos

• Alexander's rug theory;
• Kurdish village Bijar with diamond pattern, human figures, and herd;
• Kurdish Hamadan rug with sickle leaf design;
• Anatolian large-pattern Holbein rug, etc.

Sketch

Essay-type stuff, sketches of concepts and ideas

• Post-autonomous practice;
• Conversational art;
• Negating art, etc.

Film

Texts about film, texts to be turned into film

• Pourquoi Israel (DE);
• Notre musique (Godard);
• Godard: Virtualitaet und Subjekt (Klaus Theweleit) (DE);
• Godard: The Virtual and the Subject (English translation);

INDELIVERABLE

Tourism interfaces; attempt at inverting a fictional EU-funded project

• Sketch of a critique of tourism;
• Brussels inside and outside;
• Photographs of Palermo + Monreale (tourism interfaces), etc.

Marsyas

Collection of material around Marsyas (Greek mythology)

• Marsyas entry in Lempriere's Classical Dictionary

Gespaltener christlicher Glaube

Eine pychoanalytisch orientierte Religionskritik (Hermann Fischer)

• Vorwort;
• Freud;
• Jesus;
• Paulus;
• Luther