Signer is an 'engineer-artist' - like Jean Tinguely and Fischli & Weiss, he builds constructions that result in destruction. Controlled destruction though, he explains. Not for its own sake, but to explore and entertain. Using every day objects, he creates works that exist between pop art and land art, punk sensibilities and engineering processes, child-like playfulness and anarchic maturity. They are performances (almost always) without a performer. Objects are thrown about, from toy helicopters to chairs, as Signer toys with scientific ideas of cause & effect, experimentation and the process of discovery. I feel that his brand of humerous and (paradoxically) considered anarchy could be applied to the more personally expressive, emotional contexts within my own practice - utilizing similar processes and mechanisms to explore themes of failure, falling, isolation and boredom is definitely something to consider.