In this video work you meet the artist all dressed up in a tuxedo, standing in what seems to be a ‘white nothing’. Over and over again he gives a thank you speech, without revealing whom he is thanking or why he is so thankful. The performance is without humor and the tone is personal but the speech itself is constructed by using bits and parts from various famous Oscar speeches. The whole speech, for instance, starts off with the sentence ‘It has been a long journey to this moment’ and ends with ‘Words seem so futile, so feeble. You are all such lovely, beautiful people. Thank you’. The first quote is from 1963 when Sidney Poitier won an Oscar as the first black male for best actor. The second one is from 1971 when Charlie Chaplin received an honorary Oscar for his lifetime achievement. In their original context they all express true feelings of gratitude and of love but put together the way they are in this work they become more like empty phrases and the speech becomes more like an generalized mantra, ready to be used for any event suitable.