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Secret Ballet

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

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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.

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);

Sketch

Essay-type stuff, sketches of concepts and ideas

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

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.

Probe

Probing into other people's stuff

• Psychedelic art;
• diCorcia: choice, non-event and truth;
• Alexander's Pattern language;
• Neumanns Filme (DE);
• Narration in Kosuth's 'Purloined';
• Notes on EIN-HEIT by Michael Schmidt

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.

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