Richard Foot and Arron Fowler, of the R&A collective, came round on the 8th November to shoot a short movie about the Typewriter series. The result is a neat little film, featuring a short interview, some camera porn and loads of words appearing here and there. Click here to view it on their website.

The dates are 17th November to 2nd December. I doubt I’ll be able to make the PV, but you’re all welcome to go and have a look. And a listen of course.

SpaceCamp gallery,Murphy Arts Building in Fountain Square, Indianapolis, IN, USA.

This sound installation consists of two computer speakers hung on the wall and connected to a mp3 player. The content of the sound file that is played looped is optionally on display on the wall too.

This sound installation is a reflection on information and the way it is distributed and consumed. The 10 minute soundtrack is a constant flow of commands, warnings and statements that one is confronted to every day. These phrases are sclerosed: they were born complete one day and never evolved. They are set pieces of information that are now devoid of sense and meaning, because of their very ubiquity and because of them being ceaselessly repeated. They are like stamps on a passport: they don’t say anything about the country you’re going to, they simply state that all necessary administrative task needed to go there have been completed. They are not here to inform us, but to make sure that whoever uses them can’t be sued. They are failsafe, not to the users, but to the purveyors.

The soundtrack is accompanied by a printed sheet containing all the phrases and words used, printed as one big, continuous, punctuation free block of text (the spoken phrases do not contain punctuation either). I encourage visitors to grab a sheet and read it. Hopefully, they will try and find the place in the text that is matching the spoken words, and therefore pay proper attention to the information delivered to them. My aim is to create a kind of game in which

the visitor interacts passively with the artwork. The fact that the sheet can be folded and taken home, and that the sound files are available on line, is an incentive to carry on playing outside the

gallery environment.

You can download it for free in pdf or mp3 formats. You can also purchase a signed and numbered CD with the files on, plus extra material (3 extra voices, notebook and game sheet, plus handwritlen notes), for a total of £20, postage included worldwide.

It is not a photographic piece, although it deals with issues of memory, indexing and reality.

An artist statement about this piece and a few more images can be found here (.pdf format).

I am delighted to announce that I am now represented in Switzerland by TAFKAJ Gallery

It shows the works of Benjamin Rasmussen – Kimiko Yoshida – Cécile Sergent – Bernard Faucon – Michael Jackson – Jane Fulton Alt – Xavier Delory – Takala and France Dubois.