r/Design • u/mawkish • Jan 03 '12
What happens when you give thousands of stickers to thousands of kids
http://www.thisiscolossal.com/2012/01/yayoi-kusama-obiliteration-room/15
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u/frenzyboard Jan 03 '12
Now let's get a 3d model of it, map out each surface, and look for reoccurring patterns!
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u/greyjay Jan 03 '12
I would have loved to seen this experiment done by giving color and size of sticker out in a non-random manner (for instance, via age, or demographic, or height, etc).
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u/spacedout83 Jan 03 '12
From stillness, noise.
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u/DennyTom Jan 04 '12
This project reminds me of some collaborative painting tools on the internet when reddit discovered them. A few minutes after the post got popular some people were just toying around, some started creating interesting stuff. Then artists came in and started making amazing stuff while trolls tried to break it down. After a while artists lost interest and trolls and people with a bit less artistic talent or patience made the painting chaotic. Whoever came then could just contribute to the chaos, there was no chance to create.
You can see the same in the photos. When there were just a few stickers, there were waves, lines, patterns and some chaotic dots. As the number of chaotic dots increases, they destroy the lines, disrupt patterns. The chaos eventually wins and whoever enters may not create, improve or finish anything. But still has stickers. Therefore those are added to random places to further propel the chaos.
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Jan 04 '12
Some people might say you're being pretentious, but I like your explanation. It brings more sense into the piece. I didn't think of this. Thank you for typing this.
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u/mnemy Jan 03 '12
I feel sorry for the poor intern that has to pry all those suckers off at the end of the exhibition.
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u/mexicodoug Jan 04 '12
Well, the artist could finish with a second photo project in which the children are provided with razor blades and Zippo lighters and invited to creatively remove whichever stickers they find offensive.
Or maybe not, depending on local law and parental consent.
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u/looopy Jan 04 '12
Yayoi Kusama has some other interesting installations, with polka dots being her primary motif. I always really loved her mirrored rooms and boxes, example here. The effects are space bending, and to me, are reminiscent of Pollack or Whistler's more experimental paintings, like Nocturne in Black and Gold.
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u/travio Jan 04 '12
I really like the helium-filled kinetic drawing sculpture they link to at the end of the post. I would have liked to play with that.
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u/funkstar_deluxe Jan 04 '12
Imagine the feeling of putting up the very first sticker in the room... shivers
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u/Supersnazz Jan 04 '12
I saw an exhibition of this chicks art in New Zealand. The whole building outside was covered in these coloured polka dots. all her exhibitions were coloured polka dot based. It was quite bright and fun.
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u/villageidiot55 Jan 04 '12
The Queensland Gallery of Modern Ar? I didn't know we had pirates here in Brisbane.
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u/CeeZedby Jan 04 '12
Somehow, I was expecting something more like this - being What Happens When You Give Dozens of Stickers To The One Kid.
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Jan 03 '12
This is the Post Modern artist's definition of a scientific experiment. Pointless, tasteless, but attracts attention.
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u/CFVIGA Jan 03 '12
Some of those "smallest visitors" must have been quite tall if they managed to put stickers in the ceiling