I know I don't (2005) uses a fragment from the song "Anarchy in the UK" by the Sex Pistols, recorded at the end of the 70ies. A new sentence is created resulting in the mirrored opposite of the first one. With this work the artist refers to the social and political circumstances that influenced the band to create this song in the past and looks out for the new existential problems which the individual faces nowadays.

The first version of this piece has pencil on half transparent paper, (21x 28 cm) and was originally commissioned by and published as a doublepage in GAP magazine, issue 4, by Futura Editions, July 2005, Athens, Greece.

Taken into an exhibition space the elicited notion of time - past, present and future - expands to become a spatial element. It manifests and simultaneously erases the wall dividing the two rooms. Ways to think the 'old' and 'new' are simply conceptions attempting to imagine the flow of time, just as listening is to imagine the flow of sonic events.

By Jens Maier-Rothe, curator, on the occasion of the „Floteson: Sonic sources, courses and rearrangements“ group show at KHM Gallery, Malmö, Sweden, 2008.



Exhibition view „Floteson: Sonic sources, courses and rearrangements“ group show at KHM Gallery,2008.

Apart of the drawing Nikos Arvanitis is taking the same audio fragment from the original recording and changes the order in which the words (lyrics) are being pronounced within this fragment and creates a new sentence with the opposite meaning of the original one. This new sample (sentence) is being played in a loop mode. The original sample (sentence) is appearing just once within the entire mix, exactly at the middle of it, to mark the difference between the original and new sample.

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