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'8/11' (Chapeau) - Binary comedy after Marx's 11th Thesis on Feuerbach

On a long screen (composed of 2 projections) 8 persons appear and, like actors on a stage at the end of their performance, bow in front of the audience/viewers, with some of them taking off their hats. They all reappear repeatedly and perform the same collective bow, but each time in this row of 8, different persons take off the hat. As 8 actors (actually one and the same person – artist) stand for 8 digits of a binary coded letter of the alphabet (for example, letter A: 01000001) every combination of hats, off and on their heads, actually reads as one letter in the text. Sound in the piece is a continuous aplause of an enthusiastic audience.

Audience is the playwrite
Any visitor can type a text of his/her own comedy into a computer. The text is turned into the binary code which then controls video playback of letter sequences i.e. the order of appearance of the actors. When there is no text typed by the visitors
“actors” play the text of Marx's '11 Theses on Feuerbach'.