Michael Stevenson
Strategic-Level Spiritual Warfare (2014–23)

Installation

Dates
21.9.–15.10.2023

Location
Villa Perpetuum Mobile, Graz

Part of
Villa Perpetuum Mobile

Production specifics
Courtesy of the artist

Michael Stevenson’s installation tests a doctrine once proposed by mathematician, playwright, and bodyguard José de Jésus Martínez, who observed frequent confusion at a door: “Will it yield with a push … or pull?” He understood this moment as an encounter with pure evil. Two doors from Forum Stadtpark are hooked up to a test mechanism. Their swing is controlled via pneumatic hosing, tracing them back to a remote room. Here, four AI bots play different computer games, whose results determine the door’s yield and multiply the encounters with evil.

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