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American artist Barbara Kruger has produced here a unique audio chess set where each piece on the board is a miniature speaker. Designed loosely on the famous 1924 Bauhaus chess design by Josef Hartwig in red and black Corian, every chessman contains a series of different audio recordings from classic Kruger questions such as “What time is it?’ and ‘What’s up with your hair?’ to equally provocative Kruger announcements like ‘You feel comfortable losing,’ or ‘You can’t be serious’. When heard together during the course of a game these real voices construct an audio conversational piece that parallels the act of playing chess.