A Plan for the Perfect Night    (1992)

A Plan for the Perfect Night    (1992)

A series of 15 c-type photographic prints of stars (taken from a NASA 35mm slide film set), ‘improved’ by invited participants, through adding an extra star, using white Tippex correction fluid.
Print size: 12″ x 16″

First installed in the group exhibition “Instructions Received”, Gio Marconi, Milan, curated (and A Plan for the Perfect Night  ‘improved’) by artist Liam Gillick.

Other versions of the installation of A Plan for the Perfect Night    (1992)  included a death row prison commissary list (ie; all the items available to buy within a prison, as a prisoner on death row) from Ellis Unit 1, Huntsville, Texas, US.  The list had been sent to Chodzko when he began a letter writing correspondence with a death row prisoner, through https://www.humanwrites.org/.

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Related works:

Secretors          (1993 – )
Nightvision    (1998)
Transmitters    (1991 – )
O, you happy roots, branch and mediatrix  (2020)