Self-Registering Instrument

(From The Inutile Instrument Series)
Assemblage with electric meter
48 x 5 x 5 Inches
Meter registers when lifted from bracket and tilted.
Collection of Karen Rymer and Jeffery Moore

The meter registers to indicate that the unit is working when lifted from its bracket and tilted. It’s whole purpose in life is to tell you that it works. It registers therefore it is.

The Inutile Instrument Series
This loose knit series of useless instruments, as the title suggests, began in 1989 with, Inutile Instrument #1, Inutime, and Self Registering Instrument and has since grown to loosely include other work. We can let pieces like The Reality Comparator and the Paradox Box or Instrument for the Translation of Paleographic Memory be included or maybe even say, Instrument for Spanking …. but that seems a bit too utile. Look around through the site. You decide.