Park book, part installation, this work satirised the niavety of the 1980 United Nations Reccomendation on the Status of the Artist. The full text of the recommendation was styled to emphasis the style of UN-speak with its endless repition of stock phrases. The piece was printed on thermal reciept paper to highlight the corruption of artistic freedome by market forces.
Through the confessional for cognitive sins Prophette is offering absolution from modern sins in the form of cognitive bias. Both the website and the installation play with the idea of cognitive bias, to get people to admit to these biases and “absolve” them of their “sins”. The idea is to poke fun at this over-hyped area of discussion which reached an apex with the success of Daniel Kahneman’s Thinking, Fast and Slow.
Make Money From Betting on Religious Beliefs Using the 2021 UK Population Census – A Guide This book offers a unique exploration of the intersection between religion, gambling, and census data through the lens of the now-defunct Betfair Metaphysical betting exchange. Designed for novelty and metaphysical fun, the exchange allowed participants to place bets on … Census 2021: Your Guide to the Metaphysical Betting Options
The Random Bible is a bible that was created to contain 787,137 random words. The same number as the King James Bible. The words are drawn from a list of over 100,000 words. Most people have a vocabulary of less than 20,000 words. So enjoy these words and find inspiration from reading aloud in a bombastic voice.
Bob Prophette’s Tarot for Fools is based on the Book Narrenshiff by Sebastian Brant. A book first published in 1497, capturing the many ways we can display our foolishness. In Bob’s Tarot for Fools you are not led on a fool’s journey. You will not meet a Magician or a High Priestess, you will not emerge from the Hermit’s cave to feel you have understood the balance of life. You will not delude yourself by thinking you have understood anything or can really know anything. Instead, you will remain with the humility you were born with.
