The Video Installation Unexpected Rules was produced as the Swiss Contribution to the 26th International Biennal of Contemporary Art of São Paulo in 2004.

The script is based on the "Clinton-Lewinsky Affair", which arose from the nexus between power, sex, and globalized media and shows how multifaceted levels of interest, along with public images, ultimately render the "true" interpretation of an event impossible. Moser & Schwinger's version of the affair does not follow a linear storyline that is shaped by causality and rational behavior. Rather, their cinematographic and scenic adaptation of the actors’ contradictory emotions, interests, and strategies creates a complex plot that forces the viewer to accept paradoxes as a part of reality. These different layers are integrated into a popular form of representation - a cross between a TV show and puppet theater.

The film was originally shown as part of a video installation in which visitors enter the reconstructed film set (a wooden lightbox lined with 1,300 colored bulbs), stand very close to the projection screen, and become first-hand witnesses of the negotiations within the intimate setting of the presidential family.

		Lightbox size: 604 cm (width) x 420 cm (length) x 337 cm (height). Projection screen size: 530 cm (width) x 300 cm (height).