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Secret ballet

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

Jane Swallow, a journalist and budding Tory politician, is married and has three kids. She is ambitious, confused, overworked, romantic, righteous, and promiscuous. While she is enamoured of flamboyant writer George, she is having an affair with a woman working in the party office. Her precarious marriage to John, an unsuccessful painter and nut case, disintegrates further as John eyes up the new unruly family au pair, Felicity, who has designs of her own...

Additional information about Secret ballet

Other work

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

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

Probe

Probing into other people's stuff, critique

• Psychedelic art;
• diCorcia's 'Streetwork' series;
• Alexander's Pattern language;
• Kosuth's novel 'Purloined';
• A theory of presentation, etc.

Sketch

Essay-type stuff, sketches of concepts and ideas

• Post-autonomous practice;
• Laikologie;
• Conversational art;
• Negating art;
• Breaking the rules;
• Fields of photographic practice;
• Map of photographic genres, etc.

Rugs

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

• A theory of rugs;
• Koljai rug with turtle border;
• Kurdish Hamadan rug with sickle leaf design;
• Anatolian large-pattern Holbein rug, 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.

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.