Rules for a grammatical role-playing game to be played during any kind of conversation

Formal Conversation & Chance Debate (English) / Un Juego Para Toda Ocasión Social (Español) / etc
Date: 2000

The rules of the game to be sold/bought are available in English and Spanish. Additional languages can be supplied upon request. What is owned after purchase is the uncanny experience of grammatical role playing and the memory of the sound of pronouns repeating in unusual patterns.

Price: $200 per game for each 5 players or less (Note: An additional fee of $50 is charged for rules in new languages)

How to apologize for failing to meet deadline

Failure to Meet Deadline 
Date: 2007, Unlimited edition.

The purchase of the textual fragments allows their use by a single buyer in any kind of written or verbal correspondence. Some of them might need slight adaptations for each particular context.

Failure to Meet Deadline #1 (circa 25 words) -  $10 USD

Failure to Meet Deadline #2 (circa 115 words) - $100 USD

Failure to Meet Deadline #3 (circa 100 words) - $80 USD

Failure to Meet Deadline #4 (circa 90 words) - $60 USD

Failure to Meet Deadline #5 (circa 15 words) - $20 USD

Failure to Meet Deadline #6 (circa 50 words) - $50 USD

Forwarding to the artist all the emails received from Africa

All Emails I Receive from Africa
Date: 2007

Collectors of this work create a folder with the piece's title All Emails I Receive from Africa in their email Inbox.
Between March 21 and July 31, 2007 they move every message they receive from an email address in Africa to the new folder. Either throughout this time 
frame, or between August 1 and August 10, 2007 the collector(s) forward all accumulated messages to Pedro Lasch using the following address: plasch@duke.edu.

Work will not be validated until collector has sent check or wired funds to gallery or artist account corresponding to $1 for each email forwarded. Final work will have various collectors, and will only include messages that begin with the letters Fwd, or equivalent in any other language. No one except Lasch will ever see the final totality of 'All Emails I Receive from Africa'.

Price: $1 per African email accumulated and forwarded to plasch@duke.edu between March 21 and July 31, 2007.

Visiting the black light environment

Black Light
Date: 1997/2007

In 1997 the artist created a series of representations of what is currently impossible, yet seems utterly desirable: sources that emanate darkness instead of light, or what the artist calls 'black light'. The early painted representations soon proved useless in terms of persuading a majority of viewers/perceivers about the depth of the invention or discovery of 'black light'. The current technology of virtual environments now offers itself as a worthy technique of representation or simulation for this idea or fictional phenomenon. The collector(s) of 'black light' will provide advance investment for the fabrication and design of these virtual environments and will then be invited to experience them in the summer of 2008 in Durham, NC at the DiVE facility of Duke University.
 
Price: $500 to visit black light virtual environment in Durham, NC in summer 2008 ($250 advance by April 30, 2007) 

Temporal rearrangements of space, furniture and any other object provided by collector

Private and Public Rearrangements
Date: 2004-ongoing

Since 2004 the artist has offered to temporarily rearrange spaces, furniture, and objects within domestic, private, and public spaces. 
These temporary rearrangements are based on intuition, as well as what the artist knows of the people who own and use these spaces. 
Collectors of this work may keep the new condition of their everyday environment as rearranged by the artist as long as they wish. The only  documentation of the work is the address where the arrangement happened, the name of the commissioner or collector, floor plans, and two sets of photographs, one before and one after the rearrangement. For the purpose of EdlA, none of these documents may be purchased. 
What is purchased or collected is simply the experience of the rearranged environment.

Price: $300 per day fee plus additional costs that include transportation, lodging, and food for as many days as necessary for artist to rearrange things.

Phone conversations based on email scripts

Voice Strings (Telephonic Spaces Series)
Date: 2007 (Telephonic Spaces Series begun 1998-ongoing)

In 1998 Lasch re-staged his own version of Samuel Beckett's Krapp's Last Tape by reading out the play in fragments unto the answering machines of random individuals selected from the NYC phonebook. This became the first production Telephonic Spaces. The series has since grown to include various ongoing projects that happen over the telephone. Voice Strings (2007) invites collectors or participants to select a given string or string selection from any email correspondence between two individuals they find of interest. Once selected, the string is sent to Pedro Lasch at plasch@duke.edu, and a phone appointment is made between the artist and the collector or participant. During the phone conversation, the two parties re-stage the conversation by taking the role of one of each email string correspondents. While they may vary the content through phonetic experimentation and emotional inflection, no text might be added to the string during the phone conversation. The only record of each voice string is the original email string, the names of the participants, and the date and time on which the phone dialogue occurred. No sound record will be made. If a participant or collector wishes to have the artist chose the email string, this is also a possibility, but an additional artist fee of $100 applies in that case. 

Price: $5 per minute on telephone. Call must be made by collector.

Pedro Lasch