Zine; 2021
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‘Act of Adjusting’ is a zine that emerged from my ongoing research ‘Mutual
Darkness of Objects’. The work contains 44 vector drawings of the bathroom
mat.
Condition:
I document the bathroom mat whenever I enter the bathroom and whenever I
leave it again.
For one week, I documented the bath mat upon entering and leaving the
bathroom. Of these, 22 bath mats were documented upon entry and 22 bath mats
were documented upon exit. A total of 10 corrections were made.

About ‘Mutual Darkness of Objects’
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Method
Method
Mutual Darkness of Objects is a research documentation, inspired by
Object-Oriented Ontology, about discovering and developing a narrative from a
non-human starting point. The title refers to the idea that objects never make
direct contact with each other, any more than with the human mind, but require
a mediator for such contact to occur. This "mutual darkness" or
"mutual withdrawal of things, a term used by Heidegger, makes reality only
accessible with indirect language, such as metaphors in aesthetics and poetry.
object (as tracer) ︎︎︎ traces (they capture) ︎︎︎ metaphor ︎︎︎ communicative value
Within this research the (non-human) object is used as a ‘tracer’ to trace the worlds it passes through. By observing and analyzing the object in the different networks of actions in which it is engaged, I’m hoping to extract a communicative value out of the various gestures of the object. This hopefully leads to an exploratory dialog between me, the other and the things around me.
object (as tracer) ︎︎︎ traces (they capture) ︎︎︎ metaphor ︎︎︎ communicative value
Within this research the (non-human) object is used as a ‘tracer’ to trace the worlds it passes through. By observing and analyzing the object in the different networks of actions in which it is engaged, I’m hoping to extract a communicative value out of the various gestures of the object. This hopefully leads to an exploratory dialog between me, the other and the things around me.