I've always had a very slight stutter. I think this trouble with language has informed my interest in loosening certain taught processes of communication. The tendency to stammer throws seemingly natural habits of exchange into thick relief. This has led me to focus on power relations that circulate in the form of so-called “real abstractions:" abstractions that don't simply express, but effectively organize reality as a commensurable whole.

Concepts of reason and nature, as much as value and money, are historical instances of such practical instruments of control. Is there such a thing as a stutter in the concept of a thing? I like to think of this as a material moment in thinking. The faltering of speech demands a practical re-organization of the way things appear to frictionlessly cede to transfer. I try and make work that does this, exactly.
Sam Lewitt