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Banquet
BANQUET, 2012
pinball machine, cables, 300 x 380 x 220 cm

Table and backbox of the pinball machine show a black-and-white drawing which is illuminated and animated by light. The graphics refer to the tradition of the Last Judgements and combine the mythical dualism of heaven and hell with the interrelations between master and servant, a subject in Hegel’s "Phenomenology of Spirit". The gaming machine becomes a paradise machine and the title BANQUET ironically refers to the biblical-eschatological banquet. Capital, sugar, slavery and colonialism are the ingredients of the banquet the player sits down for. The goal is to keep the ball “eternally“ in the game in order to achieve the Edenic state of a “Sweeternity.