Chapter No. 13
Procedural Fiction
17 October 2025 — 5 December 2025
This chapter begins with twelve short phrases.
They were not written in one sitting, or with a single voice. Instead, they were collected from past exhibition texts, interviews, and artist’s notes about my work. Bryony Dawson, whom I recently invited to write a text for another project, pulled these lines from various sources and reorganized them into a new composition.
The result felt strangely familiar, as if someone had spoken my thoughts back to me through a different filter. I selected twelve phrases and decided to install them on the wall, simply, quietly. They stand like small scores or prompts—similar in spirit to Oblique Strategies—each open to interpretation, depending on when and how they’re read.
The sound component began as a continuation of LOOM’s one-hour playlists. It became a way to give these phrases another layer, another rhythm. Working with Siniz Kim, we talked about how meaning might shift if we translated words into texture and tempo.
Each phrase became a kind of instruction—not to a musician, but to a system that listens differently. What came out were twelve sound pieces: abstract, pattern-driven, sometimes unpredictable, sometimes tender. Each piece is accompanied by its phrase and AI-generated track images that interpret both the audio and the words. They don’t illustrate the phrases, but echo them in another register.
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1. Easily Overlooked Structure
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2. A Gesture to Loop Us In. A Loop to Gesture Within
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3. Souvenir Becomes a Monument
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4. Blank Names, Blank Sunsets, Blank Plans, Blank Halos
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5. Synthetic Sincerity
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6. Vague Imperative
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7. Doing and Undoing, Attaching and Detaching
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8. If I Say General, I Mean Generous
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9. Arbitrary but Memorised, Like a Shared Language
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10. To Select Is Also to Reject
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11. The Central Aspect Is Fiction
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12. The Outline Rather than the Material
