I David Hatcher

THE JITTERS (Day Tripping)
Like space invaders in the architecture of a computer game, in CAPRI I unsmiling smiley faces hover on
the walls. They represent the 15 member states of the European Union. The crooked smile of each figure was derived from the performance chart of each country's most common national economic index (such
as the British FTSE 100 or the German DAX 30). (...)
The figures playfully investigate the possibilites of CAPRI as a gaming architecture pondering the hallucinogenic dimensions of globalised (economic) space.(...) Another layer of meaning would be to
see these smiley face motifs as a visual reference to popular forms of LSD or more modern recreational drugs such as ecstasy. (...)
In CAPRI's smaller back room, a quote of André Breton in the form of an optometrist's eyechart appears alone on the wall. This evoked the back room as a clinical space, where perception might be analysed
and measured. The chart itself also evoked art historical (surreal) schools of thought. I imagined the surrealist desire for scandal as something that globalisation or unfettered freemarket policies have made into an almost everyday experience or condition. (DH)

The Jitters (Day Tripping)

In The Jitters (Day Tripping), the 15 current member states of the European Union hover on the walls of Capri's front room. The crooked smile of each figure is derived from the national economic index of each of the member states: Austria, Belgium, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Ireland, Italy, Luxembourg, The Netherlands, Portugal, Spain, Sweden and the United Kingdom.
Referencing the iconic smiley face, Pacman and the visual language of international stockmarkets, the figures playfully investigate the possibility of the Capri front room as a gaming architecture as they ponder the hallucinogenic dimensions of globalised space.
In the back room, a quote from Andre Breton manifests as an eyechart.