a habit a day (165) is a spatial installation that analyzes everyday repetition and collecting behavior. The work is based on questions of repetition compulsion, trauma and Freud‘s beyond the pleasure principle.
The installation is accompanied by a text: a short iphone note reflecting on the process of chewing. The text refers to the origin of the foils, which contain laminated chewing gum (165). Each slide preserves the number of gums that were chewed on the corresponding day. Arranged in archival order, they form a calendrical field on the ground. Therefore the installation thematizes absurdity and chance, implicit and explicit obsessions and their psychoanalytical shifts from neutral to personal – from inside to outside.
The work was firstly presented as a habit a day (126) during a residency at the Bauhaus University Weimar and exhibited as part of BestOff in Gmunden in cooperation with Parallel Vienna, curated by Simone Barlian and Elisa Schmid.
