Readings

I have written the Museum of Vestigial Desire since 2012. These pages sit near Bairang. The line under each title is from the page.

What does not arrive

The imaginary guest, 2014
The guest did not come.

Temperatures of Pop, 2014
Like an unopened letter, the dog became a symbol for all possible messages.

Narrative, 2014
Whatever is transmitted is not received in that form.

Reception, 2015
So reception is a multi-variate process, and the receiver's qualification is one of these variables.

Content, 2013
If it is not transmitted, it is not received.

Script, 2014
If we manage to say, maybe you will manage to hear.

Hologram, 2013
They send something this way and something else that way.

Distribution, 2013
So distribution is about the process of making so many copies of an entity that it fills up all the space between sender and receiver.

Supply, 2013
But if it does not come it does not mean that there is nothing left.

Disappointment, 2013
When signals cross in the air, sometimes failures can look like intervals.

Closure, 2012
The unspoken is doubly spoken to make sure that the silence is not jarring.

The waiting room, 2013
Waiting is a good excuse to start breathing.

The Rise of Hoja Asli, 2014
There is nothing that the source is interested in receiving.

Who pays

Out-of-sync, 2012
Imagine living in a house where you have to pay the bills for a service that you have never used.

Elephants too heavy to return, 2012
Gifts are always reciprocal.

Value, 2016
Value must be assigned.

Selling, 2016
The stranger will not mind refusing an invitation to spend money on what seems to be a badly formulated idea.

Fit, 2026
Nothing can be read off the returned thing about the person, because the returned thing was made, on receipt, for the person.

Who it is for

Audience, 2013
Who listens when we speak?

Confirmation, 2013
We sent out these invitations via post and digital mail but we did not wait for anyone to turn up.

Public, 2014
Strangers and known people cannot be distinguished.

Sociality, 2013
The definition of our audience means that we state our rationale of engagement with society.

Fiction, 2016
We can very well be fictive if we do not mind being obscure.

Packaging, 2013
The outer wrapper of an idea that lets you place it is the package.

Presence, 2013
Reading is a feasible way of transmitting presence.

Before you can make anything

Self-validation, 2013
The process that we go through before production happens, as an intrinsic part of being is what we called self-validation.

Production, 2013
Bringing something into existence is the act of production.

Auto-education, 2013
If anyone offers to teach you something, you have to politely refuse.

Identifier, 2013
Who are you known as?

Individuality, 2012
At an understated level every voice is a bunch of voices, of course.

Whose failure

Failure, 2016
People cannot fail, only situations can.

Missed opportunities, 2013
Opportunities are missed all the time.

Loss, 2013
Guilt is a free take-away of every loss.

Being in a band

Fraternity, 2013
A group identity is heavier than a personal identity and can move much slower.

Friendship, 2013
Either my friends are never around me or they are there and they are feeling empty.

Association, 2014
Associations seem to be a collective noun, but they are not.

Negotiation, 2013
Negotiations are zones of theatre, combat and courtship.

Preference, 2013
Contrary to popular belief, preferences are not known even by actors themselves.

Channel, 2013
When you need a dedicated band of communication with the world, you start thinking of a channel.

Ventriloquism, 2026
The conversation between two of them, if it had happened, would have been impoverished by its publicness.

Copy, possession, reluctance

Copy, 2013
When it happens across many many iterations it loses the smell of its source.

Possession, 2013
Possession is a craft.

Ghosts, 2013
Ghosts are actually not interested in the validation of their existence.

Reluctance, 2013
When an actor refuses to obey the director, the contract has been violated.

Museums and spaces

Museum, 2013
This museum does not consider the possibility of failure because we engage only in one way transmission.

Symptoms of a museum, part 1, 2012
Mal-adjusted are the things that don't turn up in the search result.