1st answera man walks through the door
picks up a broom and sweeps all the heads into the corner
he is paid to clean the factory floor of memory
and as he appears to us he will vanish
as he transcribes doctrine from dripping oil under machinery
as he peels the skin from incorrect answers in an uncorrected state
he tells the lies what they want to hear
wipes his feet on the freshly moistened lips of rumour2nd answera man walks through the door
drops down on all fours to sniff out traces of his ancestors
he can detect the whole range from conception to presence to death
although he finds evidence of guilt the most interesting
because with guilt the thoughts are left behind with the action
and the dried sweat derived from guilt has a different taste
the taste of a stillness from nerves crying through the skin
the apparent need the apparent desire to deceive or confess3rd answera man walks through the door
carrying all ten fingers on a white plate
his smile will guess the weight of the body of his smile
in the defeat the victory slips inside the bone oven
salutes the treaty collected in the orange dust on a stamen
he offers all that he has touched
to all that he would touch if he could touch nothing else
peace in the mind of the heretic is the heretic in the mind4th answera man walks through the door
is thanked for his attendance at the meeting
blessed with an ability to deface his supple existence
he states that he has never been more than a shadow
places a submission on the table for it to remain so
he is applauded for his honesty
in the fire on the fire before the fire
he places his hand of undrinkable water5th answera man walks through the door
quickly finds that he has been partially submerged
in an ultraviolet liquid the texture of fruit pulp
this is how silence is embalmed
tired space rubbed inside the cheeks as geometric paste
his neutral erection aglow in its bath of warm static
he could've gone to sleep
if someone had shown him how to close his eyes6th answera man walks through the door
is confronted by dozens of copulating mirrors
enmeshed on their cold bed of unregistered light
reflections sink the calibrations from visual songs
wasted across a market of strobe lit tongues
he has been sent to retrieve his own image
to reattach the echo to his first word
to reassess the accuracy of the right angles in this square sun7th answera man walks through the door
he is immediately identified and killed
he had become too close to resembling his ideas
he knew that truth had the smell of a dead full stop
his body will be wrapped in lead up to its shoulders
his eyelids removed for use as postage stamps on citations
then he will be stood in the sand at the low water mark
signalling bodies to jump from the sea to the top of the cliff8th answera man walks through the door
has finally discovered the room where all the zeros are kept
multiple portraits of the universe in small black circles
this is the language he understands
infinity that adds up to nothing
a zero is the perfect fit for the soul
the method to put one in by taking one out
to replace what is replaced with what is not replaceable
- 115: SPACE
with A Sometimes
114: NO THEME 13
with J Toledo & C Tse
113: INVISIBLE WALLS
with A Walker & D Disney
112: TREAT
with T Dearborn
111: BABY
with S Deo & L Ferney
110: POP!
with Z Frost & B Jessen
109: NO THEME 12
with C Maling & N Rhook
108: DEDICATION
with L Patterson & L Garcia-Dolnik
107: LIMINAL
with B Li
106: OPEN
with C Lowe & J Langdon
105: NO THEME 11
with E Grills & E Stewart
104: KIN
with E Shiosaki
103: AMBLE
with E Gomez and S Gory
102: GAME
with R Green and J Maxwell
101: NO THEME 10
with J Kinsella and J Leanne
100: BROWNFACE
with W S Dunn
99: SINGAPORE
with J Ip and A Pang
97 & 98: PROPAGANDA
with M Breeze and S Groth
96: NO THEME IX
with M Gill and J Thayil
95: EARTH
with M Takolander
94: BAYT
with Z Hashem Beck
93: PEACH
with L Van, G Mouratidis, L Toong
92: NO THEME VIII
with C Gaskin
91: MONSTER
with N Curnow
90: AFRICAN DIASPORA
with S Umar
89: DOMESTIC
with N Harkin
88: TRANSQUEER
with S Barnes and Q Eades
87: DIFFICULT
with O Schwartz & H Isemonger
86: NO THEME VII
with L Gorton
85: PHILIPPINES
with Mookie L and S Lua
84: SUBURBIA
with L Brown and N O'Reilly
83: MATHEMATICS
with F Hile
82: LAND
with J Stuart and J Gibian
81: NEW CARIBBEAN
with V Lucien
80: NO THEME VI
with J Beveridge
57.1: EKPHRASTIC
with C Atherton and P Hetherington
57: CONFESSION
with K Glastonbury
56: EXPLODE
with D Disney
55.1: DALIT / INDIGENOUS
with M Chakraborty and K MacCarter
55: FUTURE MACHINES
with Bella Li
54: NO THEME V
with F Wright and O Sakr
53.0: THE END
with P Brown
52.0: TOIL
with C Jenkins
51.1: UMAMI
with L Davies and Lifted Brow
51.0: TRANSTASMAN
with B Cassidy
50.0: NO THEME IV
with J Tranter
49.1: A BRITISH / IRISH
with M Hall and S Seita
49.0: OBSOLETE
with T Ryan
48.1: CANADA
with K MacCarter and S Rhodes
48.0: CONSTRAINT
with C Wakeling
47.0: COLLABORATION
with L Armand and H Lambert
46.1: MELBOURNE
with M Farrell
46.0: NO THEME III
with F Plunkett
45.0: SILENCE
with J Owen
44.0: GONDWANALAND
with D Motion
43.1: PUMPKIN
with K MacCarter
43.0: MASQUE
with A Vickery
42.0: NO THEME II
with G Ryan
41.1: RATBAGGERY
with D Hose
41.0: TRANSPACIFIC
with J Rowe and M Nardone
40.1: INDONESIA
with K MacCarter
40.0: INTERLOCUTOR
with L Hart
39.1: GIBBERBIRD
with S Gory
39.0: JACKPOT!
with S Wagan Watson
38.0: SYDNEY
with A Lorange
37.1: NEBRASKA
with S Whalen
37.0: NO THEME!
with A Wearne
36.0: ELECTRONICA
with J Jones