Afstudeerproject 2018

syzygy in a negative leap second

In the third act of my thesis, which functions as a script for the work, a character named and embodying ‘the purposefully useless’ collects the pieces of superfluous symbolism that were shaved off explanatory visuals and assembles them into a sequence of ideas and objects in a confined space that functions as a pataphor.

(The pataphor, popularly defined as:

“That which occurs when a lizard’s tail has grown so long it breaks off and grows a new lizard.”)

Creating a world of inflation and deflation, where formal elements from worlds with halos of seriousness stop referring to their original context, and become the matter of a nature in which curious, absurd and sometimes childlike laws structure chaos.