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An Investigation into Systemic Performance and Entropic Geometry

The Flight of Form is an experimental art project exploring how structure and chance collide. Using a vintage German geometry play set (Spiel Matema Formenspiel Schroedel Nr. 63003), 67 plastic shapes are launched one by one from the position of a camera lens onto a sheet of paper. Each piece is added without removing the previous, resulting in an evolving field of overlaps, collisions, and visual noise. Every stage is documented through photography, capturing the transformation from order to chaos.

The process is bound by a strict set of rules—fixed distance, fixed launch point—but the outcomes are entirely unpredictable. Gravity and material behaviour take over where artistic intention steps back. The artist becomes a facilitator of a system rather than its controller.

The project echoes the serial logic of Max Bill and Josef Albers, but reframes their controlled aesthetics in a post-conceptual, performative setting where precision and unpredictability coexist. It also draws from the legacy of conceptual and generative artists such as Sol LeWitt, John Cage, Vera Molnár, and Hans Haacke, positioning itself within a field where systems, chance, and form are in constant negotiation.

The result is a visual publication that documents the full sequence of throws—each page a new iteration, a new deviation. The Flight of Form is not about finding form, but about watching it emerge when the rules are clear and the outcome is not.

The Big Silent is an artistic investigation of the grand piano as one of the most powerful instruments of Western musical culture. Drawing on the legend of the Pied Piper of Hameln, where music becomes a force capable of leading bodies away, the work reflects on how instruments themselves can shape, influence, and control those who encounter them.

The publication follows artist Niels Lyhne Løkkegaard’s collective disassembly and reconfiguration of a grand piano. Its internal parts are extracted and preserved as “piano parasites,” turning the instrument into a speculative archive that exposes the histories, ideologies, and hidden agencies embedded within Western music.

Rather than destroying the piano, The Big Silent softens and destabilizes it—approaching the instrument as a haunted, parasitic body whose authority can be questioned, opened, and transformed.

Text by Majken Overgaard and Niels Lyhne Løkkegaard


The book is published with from the Danish Arts Foundation

Book Design by Nicolai Bejder Studio