The expression “Der symbolische Auftraggeber/The Symbolic Commissioner” refers to the utopia of the New Man, which various avant-gardes from art, dance, and architecture proclaimed both the client and

Publication by Westphalie on the occasion of their eight year anniversary in 2014 in a first edition of 585.

"A sojourn in Palm Springs in the early summer of 2011. Three people lingering around a Mickey Mouse shaped pool in the breezy backyard of a cul-de-sac closet originally owned by Steve McQueen. Their conversations turn towards contrast, detail, space, terrain, surface, entropy, belonging. Lars Neckel's Empty Set takes it from here... ."

The book is the dialectization of the unabridged text of Laurence Sterne's «The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman», Volume I (first published 1759) into redneck vernacular.

Remember Pig-Pen in the Peanuts cartoons? He was always covered with dirt and grime. He was a walking sludge heap, filthy and proud of it:

The exhibition “The Promise of Total Automation” investigated our relationship to a world of machines, technological objects, and electronic devices.