«ratking» 2025
cables, eggs
Ratking reinterprets the historical superstition of rats bound together by their tails—a traditional symbol of bad omens—into a site of potential. Constructed as a nest of cables where eggs are laid and hatched, it transforms what was once feared as a sign of misfortune into a metaphor for hope.
cables, eggs
Ratking reinterprets the historical superstition of rats bound together by their tails—a traditional symbol of bad omens—into a site of potential. Constructed as a nest of cables where eggs are laid and hatched, it transforms what was once feared as a sign of misfortune into a metaphor for hope.
Kunsthalle Sankt Gallen, algorithmic-mega-death-superspell.exe, 2025
poem – Chicken feet and Palo Santo
when earphone cables knot like ratkings
when algorithms chant like black spells
my dad used to say
a black cat crossing the street
only casts a bad omen
when its direction was
from left to right
like the shift that’s happening
in front of our minds eyes
just nobody noticed
the pivotal moment in history
where magic became real
everybody walks
walks
walks
with a wand
o u
r n
a d
the corn
e
r
.
may the only offering today
be
to unknot
and plug in.
