WORKING FILE · VERSION BETA · ZÜRICH / LAUSANNE

LUKASBEYELER

2003–OPEN RANGE / NO CLOSING DATE ON FILE

Images, bodies, rooms, machines, nights. The category was never the useful part.

Partial index. Some tapes missing. Pattern intact.

Cover of the MCBA publication Lukas Beyeler, Instant Win
Instant Win, MCBA, 2014.MCBA ↗
BORN1980 · LAUSANNE
TRAININGECAL · VISUAL ARTS
EARLY SIGNALMANGANEL · 2005
FORMATSIMAGE / VIDEO / ROOM / NIGHT
STATEOPEN RANGE
01 / WERKVERZEICHNISSELECTED ENTRIES · PARTIAL

NOT A LADDER

SAME NERVE.
OTHER CONTAINER.

The films travelled. One image became a room. Later the room grew bodies, and the bodies kept the costume on for hours. KUNT did the opposite: it made the room first and let the people finish it.

KAT.001 / NUGASE! PANIK MAHJONG
Game board. Strip rule. Japan through the side door.

KAT.004

VIDEO · THE HORSE HOSPITAL, LONDON

EVERYONE WANTS ME,
IT'S MY BIGGEST DOWNFALL

20XX. Something spreads. Inside each private universe, everything still makes sense. From outside, the same behaviour reads as mania.

The camera never confirms who has the problem.

PROGRAMME / 2012 ↗
MCBA poster for Lukas Beyeler's 2014 exhibition
MCBA exhibition poster, 2014.MCBA ↗
KAT.005

INSTALLATION · VIDEO · RELIEF · PERFORMANCE

INSTANT WIN

Japanese gaming machines first. Ennis House pattern after. Handmade tiles. A false tomb in the middle.

You walk through the promise of a prize and arrive at a tomb. The joke gets there before the theory.

KAT.007

CONTINUOUS PERFORMANCE · CCS PARIS

PARODIUS

Ivan Blagajcevic, François Sagat, Rocco Shira. Hair, muscle, femininity, ultra-pop costume. Three bodies held inside a live studio for hours.

After enough time, glamour gets hot, tired, funny. Better.

CCS PROGRAMME ↗
Figure in white shirt before a vivid geometric pattern with the face covered by reflective purple material
Pattern / face displacement, 2023.ZIGZAGZURICH ↗
KAT.009

PHOTOGRAPHY · FLATMARKUS / 4SPACES × ZIGZAGZURICH

SURFACE / STILL ON SHIFT

Colour, cloth, body, toy. Nothing waits politely in the background.

The face can go. The blanket keeps working.

KAT.

WITH MARC STREIT · ART / PARTY / SOCIAL SPACE

KUNT

A party can be a room with temporary laws. Clothes, gestures, jokes, permissions. Different weather for a few hours.

The trailers had one job: get people into the room. Years later they came back through the art door. Fair enough.

KUNT CONTEXT ↗
GAP NOTE / Some work now survives in programmes, old uploads, flyers and other people’s memory. Leave the holes visible. Someone may still have the tape.
02 / CODE SETSIX SWITCHES · LIVE

LIGHTS ON / MANUAL MISSING

WORK THE ROOM.
BREAK THE LABEL.

SET. LIGHT. BODY. SEAM VISIBLE.

03 / CONSTELLATIONREAD THE CREDITS

THE CREDITS KEEP REPEATING

SAME NAMES.
NEW ROOMS.

The credits tell it better than the lone-genius version. Pfeiffer, LaBruce, Willhelm, Sagat, Streit, Monteiro. Then the same names return in different rooms.

WALTER PFEIFFERASSISTED · IMAGE LINEAGE
BRUCE LABRUCELIVE VISUALS / STAGE DESIGN · 2009
BERNHARD WILLHELMMEN'S LOOKBOOK · PARIS · 2011
FRANÇOIS SAGATINSTANT WIN / PARODIUS
MARC STREITKUNT · CURATOR · ACCOMPLICE
ROCCO SHIRAPARODIUS
IVAN BLAGAJCEVICPARODIUS
IVY MONTEIROCAMERA / EDIT · PRIDE ISSA RIOT · 2020
MILA NAGY · DANIEL SPIZZI20XX / MALFUNCTION FILE
JAKE CANUSO · CLAUDIA P.20XX / MALFUNCTION FILE

KUNT / DOOR OPEN

KUNT did not photograph a scene. It opened the door, turned the sound up and let the scene make its own evidence.

The trailers only became archive later. At the time they had a simpler job: get people into the room.

04 / PATTERN FIELD2023 · BODY / OBJECT / TEXTILE

SURFACE / PROMOTED

BACKGROUND
UNAVAILABLE.

Bearded male figure posing with two Furby-like toys
Man / Furby, 2023.ZIGZAGZURICH ↗
Bare-backed figure holding a striped textile in front of concentric circles
Back / blanket / circles, 2023.4SPACES ↗
PERSON/OBJECT/ROOM/PATTERN

Furby, back, blanket, wall. Everybody working.

05 / PROTOCOLINSTANT WIN · STATE II

FLOOR NOTES / FOUND AFTER CLOSING

STATE II.
NO END.

  1. Build room. Leave seam.
  2. Repeat sign. Wait for weather.
  3. Object poses. Keep rank.
  4. Category tidy. Wrong code.
  5. Joke lands. Leave it dirty.
20XX / DIAGNOSTIC UPDATE
END symbol not observed. Several clean interpretations tried to install one. Patch rejected.

Pause / closing title: same black. Different edit.

MODEL / INSTANT WIN · STATE IIHOUSE EDGE 0%

THREE SIGNALS.
END REEL MISSING.

Cabinet recalibrated. No coin. END icon missing.

PAYOUTS / ALL · ENDINGS / 0 · FAULT / 20XX · STATE / BETA

SIDE CABINET / LOOP ROOM

SIX PIECES.
ROOM CHANGES.

Six pieces from the file. Each one changes the room. The × tiles are bad classifications, not enemies. Step on one and the room corrects itself badly. KAT.010 opens when the file is dense enough.

🀄NUGASE 2020XX WIN PARODIUS KUNT PATTERN
LOOP ROOM / 1PKAT.010 LOCK

Find six pieces. × is a bad classification. The room reacts.

Pieces / none

KAT.010

[ UNTITLED ] · MEDIUM OPEN · DIMENSIONS VARIABLE

NUMBER RETAINED

Nothing assigned. Number retained.

APPENDIX / SOURCESPUBLIC FILE

PARTIAL FILE / FIRST-HAND CORRECTIONS WIN

PUBLIC FILE.
HOLES INCLUDED.

Independent tribute. Working index. Not official. Facts below; readings above are allowed to misbehave.

  1. MCBA · Instant Win / 2013 jury prize context
  2. MCBA · Lukas Beyeler. Instant Win publication
  3. The Horse Hospital · Everyone Wants Me It's My Biggest Downfall · 2012
  4. Et Alors? · Lukas Beyeler interview · 2013
  5. Centre culturel suisse · Parodius · 2017
  6. Kunsthalle Zürich Academy · Camp Fires / KUNT trailer context
  7. Contemporary Art Pool · flatmarkus · 2022
  8. 4Spaces · Lukas Beyeler × 4Spaces / ZigZagZurich · 2023
  9. Tanzhaus Zürich · Lukas Beyeler / KUNT context