The project 120 Thousand Ways to be Kept Awake documents circumstances revolving around a clicking sound made by a radiator in my student dorm, mostly heard during the night. When my landlord refused to acknowledge the problem I decided to study the radiator in order to compile and hand in a detailed report of its somewhat enigmatic clicking patterns.
A sensor was attached to the radiator and connected to a computer that registered its clicks for twenty days. Graphs of the clicking patterns were then plotted.
A formal letter of compliant was handed in to the landlord, together with the graphs (one for each day) and a CD with audio samples of the radiator noise. No reply was received.
An installation narrating the project was Included in the group exhibition Lava at Galleri Win-Win, Gothenburg (2005)
