Triumph of Zero

Dennis & Debbie Club
‘Loading Screen’ (2015) digital video loop

Erica Eyres
‘Conference Drawings’ (2016) pencil on paper & ‘Clay Paper Bag’ (2014) slip cast

Andy Warhol
‘Electric Chair’ (1971) screenprint on thick wove paper, 90 x 121 cm signed and dated in ballpoint pen verso, numbered 21/250 published by B. Bischofberger, Zurich, with the Factory Additions, New York. Private collection, Glasgow.

Beagles & Ramsay
‘Who owns the cheese?’ (2016) digital animation 3.08mins with reconstituted foam seating

Beagles & Ramsay
‘The Shutters Are Down’, ‘Boing Boing Boing’ (2016) ‘Sell A Lung’ (2017) silkscreen and acrylic on card

John Russell
installation ‘Eton’ (2015) photographs

Annual Progression

What might a non-ideological laugh look like?

Truth does not change.

– suggests control and detachment

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IMPROVE VISITOR’S THINKING

VISTOR RESIDUE

R.D.B.E.D.R.W

LOADING DOWN

VULTURE

PROFOUND BOREDOM

SCREWFIX

LOAD BOREDOM

THERESA MAY

NON-DOM-DOWN

100% ACCURACY

I can only maintain the required level of urgency for short periods.

SMILE

Abort yourself and attempt long distance space travel in the last quarter of your life.
…generating procedural discoveries on the quantum level…
…initiating poverty protocols…
…simulating macro-economic power divisions…
…rebuilding hierarchy libraries…
…deleting parallax perspectives…
Look back once to see the black hole of a past life, look back twice to corrupt the memory banks, look back thrice to reveal the boundaries of the Dyson Sphere mining out your heart.
Collect 12 life-events to finish your run. Drown your father in a well on the night of the supernova before the world’s oceans evaporate. You currently have collected 4 out of 12 life-events.
Security measures dictate the use of a safe-phrase. Your safe-phrase is KILL ME, PLEASE, I CAN’T BARE ANY OF IT ANYMORE, I MEAN IT, REALLY. Please memorise your phrase and do not share it, until the necessity for it arises.
By popular vote you have been chosen as the least entertaining Non-Player-Character. Global memories of you will be deleted from the system once the player has completed your quest line.

Exhibition photography: Malcolm Cochrane