'Oh, I almost forgot. There’s another box. “It is a box that was locked up by this man for 20 years,” Brudermann says. “He said it can only be opened upon his death. He was a CIA agent. And this man, who happened to have the same initials as me, N.B., was also a missionary in the 1940s. So he had a lot of texts and writings. Papers. It culminated in his creation of an educational society for world leaders. It was a very cryptic, high-profile institution in Honolulu in Hawaii. This was his last endeavor.” She’s still being quite secretive about it, I observed. 

“Well, you know, I respect my subjects. There was also a gun and a bloody knife.” She paused, gave a light laugh. “I don’t know if it’s blood. But it could be blood. It’s old, brownish. It was a liquid. So it could be blood. He kept it in this box, there must be relevance to it. Nota bene—nb. Bizarre things are in that box.” This project will premiere as part of the 2013 Performa Biennial in New York. “It will be a game of Tarock solitaire with a legendary gambler,” she says. “In a house of mirrors that will tell the future.”'‘nb’, Verlag für Moderne Kunst 2014, distributed in the US: Artbook, in the UK: Cornerhouse Publications