Dear all,

For the past two weeks myself and my main dude Andrés Novo have been working on the enormous beast below, to be known as the ÜBERTRÄGER (roughly 'carrier', 'bearer', 'bringer-over') as part of Archipel In√est (archipel-invest.eu). It will be presented close to the Hauptbahnhof in Recklinghausen, Nordrhein-Westfalen tomorrow, Sunday 20 July at 15:00.

Thereafter the ÜBERTRÄGER will transmit its coded messages at 10:00 and 19:00 every day until the July 26.

Only those lucky enough to find/be given/purloin/otherwise obtain the special code book will be able to decode the secret stories. The distribution of the code book (total 500 copies) will be arbitrary and at the discretion of the artist.

It would be great to see some or indeed all of you soon in Recklinghausen. I will be hanging around looking after this thing most of the day.

«Wenn du Glück genug gehabt hast mich zu finden und du dir die Zeit genommen hast meinen Anweisungen zu folgen, dann wirst du dich vermutlich jetzt fragen, was ich dir sagen werde. Es steht geschrieben, dass das erste Wort, das je geäußert wurde, ein Urschrei im Anbeginn der Welt, auch das bedeutungsvollste Wort war. Dieses Wort, in seiner Einzahl, in seiner Erstheit, beinhaltete gewissermaßen alle weiteren Wörter, die noch kommen sollten. Alles, was seither gesagt worden ist, ist schlicht Erweiterung, Erklärung, Elaboration. Aber um darauf zurückzukommen, was ich nun zu sagen habe, zuallererst: beobachte weiter! Und alles wird sich zeigen.»

"If you have been fortunate enough to have found me and have taken the time to follow my instructions, then will now presumably be wondering what I am going to say. It has been written that the first word ever uttered, a primal scream in the dawn of the world, was the most meaningful of all. This word, it its singularness, its firstness, contained as it were all others that were to come. All that has been said since is simply expansion, explanation, elaboration. But to return to what I have to say now, first of all: keep watching, and all will be revealed."

Viele Grüßen,

Chris

Made possible with the support of Urbane Künste Ruhr and KUNSTrePUBLIK; Translation EN-DE: Vincent Hessling.