The phobia of tomorrow
The phobia of tomorrow
A gray cube box with an opening. A person puts his or her hand inside. When he or she takes it out there is a stamp imprint on the palm with the tomorrow’s date.
Inside the box there is a little pillow for palm. Above the pillow there is a mechanic stamp, microcontroller, servos, a clock and others. When a person puts his or her hand inside the box the stamp goes down onto the palm and the tomorrow’s date is imprinted. The date of the stamp is automatically changed each day.
The Phobia of Tomorrow continues the project “Museumfication of Phobias”. We collect various phobias and realize them inside boxes in order to have the opportunity to experience these phobias regularly. For the moment, the following projects are realized: “Portable mini customs” (the phobia of passport control: customs officers go through a coach, the passengers raise their arms with passports, the cover of the box falls down) and “The Phobia of the Other” (the phobia of an even arm without vaccination mark, when the lack of the scar is a sign of another species, which differs from us).
The phobia of tomorrow.
2017
Interactive installation:
metal, wood, electronic components, servos, stamp dater, linear displacement elements, microcontrollers, sensors, LCD screen, ink, electronic calendar
Programming: Sergey Maskov
Exhibitions:
2018 / St. Petersburg / the State Hermitage Museum, exhibition “Innovation as an Artistic Technique”
2017 / Moscow / New Tretyakov Gallery, 7th Moscow Biennale of Contemporary Art