MEGUMI MATSUBARA with assistant
AUG 30, 2008 – FEB 9, 2009
"BOOJUM" is a mechanism that creates a Balance in nonsense.
The system consists of 10 machines whose names all begin with the letter B: Broke, Backwards, Bridge, Brooklyn, Blind, Blemish, Bounce, Biscuit, Beijing, Because. The Blemish is the only machine whose presence is not shown in any form.
The machines are all black in colour and completely motionless until the Blind opens its eye to see sunrise between the Brooklyn and the Bridge. When the Biscuit pours the Backwards out a cup of tea, the Bounce screams to call the Beijing to join the table. The Broke always sits in silence when the Because passes by searching for the slit.
*BOOJUM is a word taken from Lewis Carroll's poem "The Hunting of The Snark".
Megumi Matsubara
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