Hell / Purgatory / Heaven, 2026

I

Hell

Hell occupied the ground floor of DeNode Foundation, forming the first stage in the trilogy’s ascent through the building. A collective Ouija structure was assembled from twenty-six letter cards and two additional cards marked “Yes” and “No”. Participants placed rolled paintings over their heads, transforming the canvases into provisional masks that concealed their faces and made their bodies part of the apparatus. Questions were directed towards unseen presences while Robinson transcribed the resulting letters and responses onto a whiteboard.

The ritual borrowed the form and expectation of a séance, but repeatedly failed to produce a coherent reply. Language emerged only in fragments, while meaning was anticipated and continually deferred.

II

Purgatory

Purgatory occupied the first floor of DeNode Foundation, forming the middle stage in the trilogy’s ascent through the building. A monumental table draped in black cloth filled the space. The cloth also became Robinson’s robe, extending across the table’s surface as he emerged through an opening at its centre. His body appeared to issue from the structure itself, collapsing the distinction between performer, garment, stage and ceremonial object.

Visitors selected tarot cards corresponding to past, present and future, which Robinson interpreted aloud before the assembled audience. By turning a conventionally private reading into a public procedure, the performance made anticipation, uncertainty and exposure part of its material. Divination offered no secure prediction. Authority remained divided between the participant, the cards, Robinson’s ritualised voice and the apparatus that enclosed him.

III

Heaven

In Heaven, one participant wearing a mask of Robinson’s face coats him in strawberry sauce, chocolate sauce, whipped cream, eggs and flour. Coded as blood or wine, excrement and semen, this tarring-and-feathering precedes baptism in the pool among masked doubles. She later removes the mask. Robinson composed the score using synthesisers and a loop pedal.