Frantiček's video work radically stages the deconstruction of the subject. Using a high-speed camera developed for military purposes that produces more than 5,000 images per second, he has recorded close-ups of human faces, that let their lips bubble and vibrate as the air flows through their closed mouths. The images are accompanied by a similarly irritating soundtrack of distorted snippets of speech. By breaking down fleeting movements into their minimal components, rendered in extreme slow motion that is also reminiscent of scientific-analytical research methods, Klossner creates monstrously distorted video portraits. The face as the facade of the subject that creates meaning and identity seemingly escapes control, individual features liquify and become illegible: the communication structure in which facial expressions and the speech apparatus are placed as a matter of fact collapses. This is where the unbroken obscenity of the close-ups comes in, carried by the immediate physical effect of the opening and closing mouths. Text: Karin Mundt, Hartware Medienkunst Verein Dortmund, 2004

The first presentation of "Mess Up Your Mind" took place in form of a 9-channel video installation at Kunsthaus Grenchen in Frantiček's solo exhibition of the same name (2001). Later versions of the work exist as a single-channel video (2003) and as a video sculpture with mirror teleidoscope (2018). Both versions are part of the Carola and Günther Ketterer Ertle Collection.

The high-speed recordings were made in cooperation with the Swiss Army's specialist department for weapon systems and ammunition, Camera: Fritz Trösch, Piranha infantry vehicle: Georg Stirnimann, collaboration: Peter Schuler, Daniel Schafer, Soundtrack: Ben Fay & Frantiček Klossner, Voices: Gwendolyn Masin, Ben Fay, Frantiček Klossner. Numerous friends of the artist took part in the production in form of a happening. Among them were the legendary Bernese mayor Alexander Tschäppät and his partner Christine Szakacs, the philosopher Gerhard Johann Lischka, the curator Sandra Gianfreda, the psychiatrist Aude Einstein, the art mediator Brigitte Morgenthaler, the architect Boa Baumann, the violinist Gwendolyn Masin, the musician Ben Fay, the artist Andrea Loux, the architectural historian Oliver Martin, the photographer and musician Reto Andreoli, the gallerist Bernhard Bischoff, the motion detectors Thierry Pulver and David Wernz, the curator Dolores Denaro, the architecture critic Daniel Walser, the photographer Ruben Wyttenbach, the digital transformer Benno Burkhardt as well as Sacha Erard, Marc Graf, Corinne Roll, Cédric and Manuel Scheidegger, Stefan Schwärzler, Martin Schweizer and Roman P. Schwitter.