Fragmented internal monologues around the clash between the self and its otherness, capitalism and being, abjections and obsessions with signs, words, numbers and vibrations as embodied conditions are the subject matter of this installation. The concept is based on a pictogram by Antonin Artaud entitled "The machine of being, or drawing to be looked at sideways" and its meta-representation or functional transformation into a circulating thought that resides in minds and mutates in bodies. On the back of the machine cabinet, a diagram connects 11 holes "filled with sound or stocked with silence", referring to factual and fictional connections between 6 humans and 2 animals: Antonin Artaud, Carl Solomon, Allen Ginsberg, Wilhelm Reich, Erik Satie, Samuel Beckett, Lamb and Rooster. Speech/voice is transmitted from each hole directly to the inner ear of the visitor by inserting a metal rod and resting the mouth on it (conductive sound perception). With this physical and penetrating act, the visitor invades the machine and is simultaneously invaded by it, becoming part of the machine or the machine becoming part of the human body; conveying their own metonymic status of the human-machine subject (here the composite is incorporated as a synthesis or prosthesis into the subject's identity beyond humanising the machine or mechanising the human). The speech/voice conjunctions are decoded on the typed pages. The text written on both sides of transparent paper (filling in the blanks) refers to the objective-subjective side, data and symbol, complementing and opposing each other. Since the readable side is the trace of the original (typed backwards through carbon sheets), each page is intended for double-sided observation, a process that emphasises the materiality of the textual condition, a text that re(de)constructs itself, a textual corpus in the process of being transformed into a body of completeness. Booklets with first-person texts addressed to the other (side) articulate the rationale of this co-referential parallelism.
There is no particular side from which to observe or perceive this work, nor a beginning, middle or end point. The whole work and each part of it can be conceived from a personal point of view, a subjective experience of time or a thought process.