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For the king to take off his nightshirt and put on his dayshirt was doubtless a necessary procedure; but in the social context it was at once invested with a different meaning. The King turned it into a privilege distinguishing those present from others. The Lord Chamberlain had the right to assist; it was precisely ordained that he should cede this right to a prince.
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Wherever artificial intelligence generates images, errors arise around human hands. Excess fingers crawl across door frames and table edges throughout our visual world, as zombie-like blackberry vines with no connection to any body. As a strange irony of the digital information age, these emblematic body parts which form the very foundation of our number system, cannot be comprehended by a technology based on calculations.
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In 1853, The Crystal Palace Company prepared the world's first exhibition of full-scale dinosaurs. The dinosaurs were modelled in clay and casted in concrete to withstand weather in an outdoors sculpture park south of London. During winter when the installation work was put on hold, the artist behind the sculptures arranged a New Year's dinner in the belly of one of the dinosaurs.
From the very beginning of gravel production, it influenced the way we orientourselves. Gravel was used to build roads that marked out directions in the landscape and it was used in the laying of railways that would change the way we orient ourselves in time. With the gravel as a core ingredient, asphalt, cement and concrete were developed, materials that made it possible to build in height and orientate ourselves upwards towards skyscrapers and downwards towards metro shafts and parking garages.
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There were several books published defending the possibility of spirit photography. Among the notable books were The Case for Spirit Photography by Arthur Conan Doyle, published in 1922, where Doyle attempted to defend William Hope and his Crewe Circle, a well-known spiritualist group of the time.
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Gravel expanded the physically possible space but its production caused disoriented landscapes. Once hollowed out, many gravel pits were filled with trash and building materials, and suddenly Ice Age fossils of mammoth tusks could be found alongside discarded washing machines and deposited plasterboards.
If, since the moment the first human appeared on Earth, around 80 billion people have walked the planet, one can hardly expect each individual to have their own repertoire of movements. It is simply arithmetically impossible. One cannot consider a movement to be an individual's expression; on the contrary, it is rather the movements that use us as their tools, carriers, personifications.
The player who trespasses against the rules or ignores them is a “spoil-sport”. The spoil-sport is not the same as the false player, the cheat; for the latter pretends to be playing the game and, on the face of it, still acknowledges the magic circle.
All that remained of the original fields, forests and meadows was the structures that had been too expensive to dig away: a deep well, for example, that stands alone, as a naked tower because the ground around it has been dug away. Almost a monument, the well seems to point to the fact, that what was left when the gravel was extracted, was a landscape turned inside out. And in such a landscape, you have to find a new orientation. I see this as the starting point for my process.
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