Installation | 2012 | powder coated aluminium sheets, gear motor, conveyor belt, chute mechanism, crusher mechanism | 2,70 x 2,70 x 0,90 m | Fotos top down: Hannes Woidich, Gaby Peters, Ralf Müller Fotografie (www.rmfd.de), Hannes Woidich

This machine was made possible by the friendly support of: the red point gmbh, Dortmund and Wieneke Anlagenbau und Verfahrenstechnik, Bad Driburg.

Fortuna X/14.3 is a fortune cookie-crushing-machine. Its oversized proportions emphasize the indifference with which it pounds the comparatively tiny cookies into bits and reduces the process of industrial mass production to absurdity. The yellow chute is filled with fortune cookies, which – via a mechanical contraption – are then in turn dropped onto the conveyor belt which delivers them to the crusher where the fortune cookie is pounded into bits. At the end of the conveyor belt, the object, which is so important to some people (the paper slip with the visionary message for the future), falls together with the fortune cookie pieces on a pile of already crushed cookies at the end of the belt. Although there are signs "Please do not touch.", the visitors pick the messages from the crushed fortune cookie heap.