""The way in which antiques refer to the past gives them an exclusively mythological character. The antique object no longer has any practical application, its role being merely to signify. It is astructural, it refuses structure, it is the extreme case of disavowal of the primary functions. Yet it is not afunctional, nor purely 'decorative' , for it has a very specific function within the system, namely the signifying of time." - Jean Baudrillard, the system of objects (1968)
"For this composition, I sampled and then cohabited a modern air conditioner and the Braun Hl70 Fan (sound n.89) making them coexist within the same piece in a complementary way.
"My action is not dissimilar to an architect or an interior designer work, who make possible the coexistence of an electric washing machine and the ancient ladle of linen [*stregator (Apulian dialect)] on an Apulian farm became bed and breakfast, maybe also having kerosene heating but keeping the peasa
