Sphinx, Silom Soi, Bangkok
happy hour
buy one get one

a cyberhomesteader drifting
accessing with a borrowed password
passing with a torn ID card
homepage
homeless page
buy one get one

Buy One Get One is a two month homesteading project housing at http://www.ntticc.or.jp/HoME.
Two digital suitcases modeled after a Japanese style bento box and equipped with a powerbook, cameras, mikes, and phonelines plus a hinomaru bento (lunchbox with rice and ume [plum]) are netcast ready for HoME delivery.

During the two month period of the ICC Biennale '97 exhibition, we claim our HoME in the telecommunication's mainframe. With Lawrence CHUA, we engineer a route that recalls seeds of discontent and desire carried on trade winds between continents.

We'll be uploading and "furnishing" our HoME with wallpapers of the home(page)less, smuggling memory chips of the ever-developing as we cross borderlines of hyperlink (il)logics. Return to the idea of the body as a system with complex routes/roots in the world around it. So, what does travel mean in a world that is part of your own body, or with a suitcase that is your HoME ? On the road, the digi-suitcase is transmission central, our last hold to a connection, our attachment to HoME/System Mainframe. The ume bento recalls a colonial past.

In the gallery, the bento suitcase serves as the interface of travelers and marketplace locals. Ume, nipple, panic button. When in doubt, PRESS. Memory chips scramble. Reprogrammable auto-agents shuttle down the assembly line. Visitors at the gallery reloading the site are part of the homesteading scheme.
Buy One Get One The internet is the agenda. Super hyper the rush to get wired. The African Safari has a mission to wire the continent. A continent awaits its phoneline installation. But, but, who's gonna pay for the phonebill ?
Joining global assembly line of automated packaging, HoME is a java programmed site that allows auto-uploading of ever processing sales pitches from the ever-developing continents.

Buy One Get One; the over and forever developing clone themselves and claim HoME in net circuitry. Recalling the boys selling garlands and pineapples in the midst of Bangkok's perpetual gridlock, our wired bodies work across-circuited systems, shaking ass to make a buck.