Pierre Hughye Liminals (LAS Art Foundation) at Berghain Halle

Instructions to give your audience the impression that they are encountering ‘the void’ for €10 (using just a gallery film of 1 hour and an expensive set of speakers):

1.Project an image of a naked woman on a huge screen.

2.Arousal makes your audience feel like something is really happening so make her sexy.

3.Keep the room dark, with concrete walls and high ceilings. The back room of Berghain would work perfectly.

4.The flickering light from the screen should never be quite enough to get a full sense of the room’s dimensions.

5.Accompany your film with dramatic electronic music (crackles, roaring static). Surround the audience with speakers.

6.Have your naked woman crawl and writhe around on the floor – ensure she looks naïve and childlike. Better still if she is cold, bruised and vulnerable.

7.Get a good look between her legs – get the camera right up in there. Vagina = void (Freud said it first: ‘dark continents’!!).

8.Scoop out her face and put another dark gaping hole in its place (She has got to be depersonalised and inhuman enough to be ‘post-human’ but just human enough so that her tits stay perky).

9.Place her in a desolate otherworldly landscape (…a ‘dark continent’). Make sure your landscape has some big craters (more deep dark holes to get the blood flowing).

10.Give her a C-section scar (but don’t think through its implications of birth and new life too much, her body must continue to stand for a masculine fantasy of the void as death and otherness).

11.For the final flourish, opaquely cite Wittgenstein in the explanatory post-film interview (conveniently leave out his most famous line: ‘Whereof one cannot speak, thereof one must be silent’ or… shut the fuck up, the void is right there in you already you silly man).