from CHAINS
JÉRÉMIE WENGER
The constraint used in these pieces is a simple concatenation principle, similar to musical modulation—where a pivot chord is used to shift from one key to the next—, and which was inspired by a French nursery rhyme from my childhood, “Trois petits chats” (“Three little cats”). The chaining process creates garlands of ‘clichés’ evoking various aspects of the contemporary world, the tension between the respect of the constraint and the thirst for surprise and diversity creating something akin to a linguistic Rorschach test: given a snippet, where does the mind go when asked to treat it as the incomplete start, or end, of something?
—Jérémie Wenger
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hath not a jumanjihad it coming and going all in one way or anothering and belonging mark twain cloud cover of dark side of the moonlighting
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promisreid mubaraquiferocious
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faint heartbroken nose bleeding edge effectual prayer meeting point-blank-range rover
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cannedsuperdrivirtutorantula
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faff about of despair of hands down to earthlingering over and out
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cock snot green flash in the panopticon artist statement of purpose-built-in wardrobe mistressshipment tracking error message passing as whiteboard member states of emergency room of one’s ownershipwrecking ball game
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flash in the panthermonuclear weapons-free zone out of focus on your work-and-tumbling down the rabbit hole in the wall of tears of joystick it to the manhattan projectile vomiting centre stage fright
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never look back-breaking bad news travel fast asleep at the wheel of fortune cookie cutter barcode of conduct
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break free for all night long gone too far right to die forgive or take it easy going rogue state of the union of opposites
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sir gawain and the green new dealing withstand in good steadfasten your seatbelt and road trip on acid rainchecks and balances
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gun-shy away from little acorns grow a pair programming language barrier reef knot theory of evolution strategy
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cinemafiascoheretoforevermoreovergreatgrandmotherhoodwinkwink-a-peephole-and-cornerstonewarewolfhound’s-tooth
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Jérémie Wenger is a writer and programmer based in London. His practice explores the intersection between literature, constraints and generative processes, as well the consequences of the rise of Artificial Intelligence on literature and the self. He has exhibited works in Switzerland, Sweden and Finland, and has been involved in a Franco-Swiss project using neural networks for live performances on stage. His texts have been accepted for publication in the Irish journal gorse, Pamenar Online Magazine, ToCall, GRASS and Strings. @jchwenger / jeremiewenger.com