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13: A Clue as to Why I’m Not So Confused Anymore
This book creatively combines classic artwork with contemporary pop art and children’s illustrations to bring the ideas to life visually. The author employs a large number of Albrecht Dürer’s woodcuts and engravings, blending them with emoticons, pop art symbols, and lighthearted elements. This playful visual mashup creates a humorous and entertaining backdrop for the text, making it an approachable starting point for philosophical exploration.
For All Who Struggle
The call to prayer, for those who struggle, need looking after and whose hands are stained with the blood of innocents. F>UNT have released a three song cycle of mash-ups featuring Islamic calls to prayer and the music of Nick Cave and Warren Ellis. The cycle follows from attendance at Nick Cave’s recent performance in … For All Who Struggle
Wallets of Wisdom
Status of the Artist
Park book, part installation, this work satirised the naivety of the 1980 United Nations Recommendation on the Status of the Artist. The full text of the recommendation was styled to emphasise the idiosyncratic nature of UN-speak with its endless repetition of stock phrases. The piece was printed on non-archival thermal receipt paper to highlight the corruption of artistic freedom by market forces. The installation consisted of this ‘receipt’ being periodically printed by a standard Point-of-Sale receipt printer, mounted on a plinth. The piece was exhibited as part of the 2015 Sheffield Artists Book Prize.
The Golden Rule 2.0
A proposed update to the Golden Rule which features in many religious texts including the Bible: Do unto others as you would have them do unto you – original Forgive others for what they do to you, if you would do the same wearing their shoes – update The advantage of this update to the … The Golden Rule 2.0
The Burning Crucifix of Self Help
Court of Moral Ambiguity
Each card contains a description of a morally ambigous act covering four categories (suites): home, money, leisure and work. The severity of the act increases with the value of the card. Once the three rounds of exchanging cards are finished the winner is declared as the player with the highest value cards remaining in their hands.
Sins of the Mind
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.
Fourteen Words, Forty Syllables
Inspired by Jorge Luis Borges’ story The Writing of the God, this book presents a collection of randomly generated sentences. Using the original text of Borges’ story as its foundation, each sentence follows a precise structure of fourteen words and forty syllables—reflecting the mysterious “Script of the God” described within the narrative.