At the end of Lukatoyboy’s residency, message salon embassy presents the publication Zine No. 5, “Hotel Confidential – A selection of the files found on a shared computer in a hotel”.
The artist and sound inventor Lukatoyboy comes across files left behind on public hotel computers used by hotel guests, who carelessly leave behind personal traces such as boarding passes, private correspondence, invoices, construction plans, weather reports, family photos and contracts. Lukatoyboy collects these legacies. The documents left behind stimulate the imagination and become pieces of the puzzle of a possible story. The artist turns us into accomplices and confidants who take part in an indiscretion – and perhaps we remember with horror that we once left documents of this kind somewhere ourselves. Lukatoyboy’s zine also reads as a commentary on the nature of the hotel, a place that brings together people who don’t know each other. The artist rummages through the wastepaper basket of the hotel lobbies, so to speak, and the files he finds provide insights into the secret lives of the hotel guests and give clues to their fates, relationships and ways of communicating on the Internet.
“Hotel Confidential- A selection of the files found on a shared computer in a hotel”, Lukatoyboy, Zine Nr. 5 – Edition of 100 Copies, 28 p., b/w copies © 2017 Lukatoyboy & message salon