Things to Say documents a series of collected drawings produced in collaboration with invited guests to perform with Viktor every Thursday evening throughout the duration of the exhibition A Recent History Of Writing And Drawing at the ICA in London in 2008.

The Speed-i-Jet, a mobile pen-printer manufactured by Reiner (Germany), is a device built around an industrial inkjet cartridge / printing head. With its clumsy user interface and 30 character maximum capacity, this charming parasitical product prompted the discussion of possible uses for such a device.

Research Notes attempts to celebrate how we find ourselves doodling while on the phone, testing pens in stationery shops, our belief in folklore, the need to misuse technology or whose idea it was to fly aero planes in formation to write messages across our skies.

Selected from the shared archive A Recent History Of Writing & Drawing, the book provides references to things old, new and maybe forgotten which together can offer an alternative understanding of our habit to document and communicate thoughts and ideas.

Upending assumptions that any one kind of communication is more authentic, more direct or more valid that any other, meaning, texture and poetry is found in the most unlikely places.

The book documents the activities of Hektor, the spray paint output device, and collects exhibition views from a selection of Hektor works. The photographed works were manipulated to leave out all spatial context, reducing them to their source material – drawings.

Risograph printing with error diffusion dithering was used to adequately translate the rough qualitiy of the original spray paint.