"The title of the piece roughly means "the fear of poisoning oneself" and is taken from German scientists Morgenroth and Ehrlich who, in 1901, first postulated the existence of autoimmune disease.

... it could not have been more clearly indicated to you that you are invited to blindly choose, to choose with your finger, by touching. Tenhaaf's irony here nuances the current infatuation with interaction, and gestures toward the obscurity in which we more often than not make choices, our telematic choices but also our choices as consumers, our choices of opinion. Our choices.

There: you have chosen. You have just entered the fatal tragic world of a strange conjugation of determinisms. Your choice determines which segment of the Oedipus story you will hear over a background of DNA. Laius learns from the oracle about the death awaiting him at the hand of his yet-to-be-born son. Ancient forms of ultrasound and amniocentesis where the revelation contains a threat to the person of the father instead of a diagnosis concerning the integrity of the unborn child."

From a text by Johanne Lamoureux (translated by Susanne de Lotbiniere-Harwood) in the exhibition catalogue of theexhibition at Western Front, curated by Brice MacNeil, Vancouver, Dec. 1990-Jan. 1991