Jon Sasaki | In a real dark night of the soul it is always three o’clock on the morning

Jon Sasaki

In a real dark night of the soul it is always three o’clock on the morning

Toronto, Canada: Nothing Else Press, 2014

9 x 7 x 3 cm

Edition of 50 signed and numbered copies.

We're down to our last couple of copies of this work, which features potatoes wired to power a science toy clock, broadcast a distressing message. The two potatoes (not included) will power the device for many months, as the second image above illustrates. 

The work is available from the Nothing Else Press website, here. Or follow the recent Instagram account, here, in advance of new editions this fall by Stefano Calligaro, Lenka Clayton and Phillip Andrew Lewis.

"The buyer becomes complicit: they have to stab these two potatoes with electrodes and watch the system run itself down. It’s tragedy, but really only tragicomedy. If it were a sentient being it would be tragedy. It’s comedy because it’s just a potato. There’s something heartbreaking and funny about empathizing with an inanimate object.”

- Jon Sasaki, Canadian Art Magazine, Summer 2014