Studio A was first presented at the Berlin Biennial in 2008 as a sprawling attic space installation consisting of mobile architectural walls, slide projections, and multiple soundscapes. The projected images and field-recordings were made in Detroit over a two-month period in late 2007. During the exhibition period I would regularly activate the installation by performing unannounced in the space, but also by means of telephone - to a fax machine installed in Zurich (in conjunction with my show at Kunsthalle Zurich). The work receiving, repeating and displaying the telephone messages and images was called Auto-Tracking (2008). After devising several iterations of Studio A and Auto-Tracking they gradually merged with the spoken word slide installation Monumental Detours / Insignificant Fixtures (2009-2011). The written script which informed the images and spoken word for Monumental Detours / Insignificant Fixtures was a dérive inspired travelogue set within a cityscape of inter-connected skyscrapers, transitory spaces and non-places.