This publication assembles a selection of the above mentioned texts produced between the years
2005 and 2020 starting with The Non-Productive Attitude (2005) his prominent reflections on
the anti-productive attitude in the Cologne art scene of the time. The experience of having to
write the essay overnight within a few hours and without any time for revision triggered his
interest in exploring forms of unintentional writing and consequently the replacement of the
intentional author by an unconscious writer producer. This mode of automatic writing has
manifested itself until today and has become the core of Strau's artistic practice.
