Installation at Künstlerhaus Bethanien, as part of the exhibition "Memory Is a Strange Bell", 2026.
Local Host :// is an ongoing project that uses homeserver-ing as a way of worldbuilding. The work embraces local networks as a reliable system, not built on resource extraction but on commons and collectivity. The installation consists of three interconnected servers built with custom-made 3D-printed parts; an interactive chatbot built based on PDFs, recipes on treatment methods for (gendered) conditions such as fibromyalgia, MCAS, endometriosis, CFS, among others, an archive of anti-AI movements including the movements against datacenters, clippy movement, recipes for hacking the doctolib platform, and a puppet-house-server as a stage for the same-named performance. The servers are interconnected via local network, which allows the chatbot interfere with the other two servers through small displays. Once in a while, in addition to healing recipes, the chatbot sends quotes from the book ‘Health Communism (2025)’.
Inspired by the DIY home-server culture and aesthetics, the puppet performance is based on a dialogue between three different LLM characters that meet in a virtual space named Serververse and exchange about their inner workings and secrets.
