Anton Kaun | Carl F. Oesterhelt - Strunz! Enterprises

Destruction Device
A number of cords are laid in a criss-cross pattern across a table. One
end of each cord goes over the left-hand edge of the end of the table
down to the floor. There is attached to a motor winch. Each cord has a
motor winch with a different speed. The motors can be started simultaneously
using a single switch. The table is covered by a wide range of
materials (glasses, plates, pens, screws, paper, keys, radio, vases...). At
the other end of each cord one of the materials is fastened. Contact
microphones mounted on the tabletop, a loudspeaker converted for use
as a microphone which is placed on the floor next to motors, and a further
microphone record the sound. The motors are switched on. From
this point on there is no further intervention. This is where the selfdestruction
begins. The cords on the motor winches begin to pull the
materials off the table. These get smashed, liquids are spilt and everything
falls down in an uncontrolled fashion – onto the motors and the
loudspeaker-microphone.
Nothing is planned, everything is left to chance and ends in chaos! The
self-destruction is provoked by a deliberate mechanical destruction, left
to its own devices. The machine does not resist. A push of a button
results in complete destruction.
Concept + Realisation: Anton Kaun / Rumpeln (04 June 2008)