De-interactivity

After having placed our tent with the two most 'spiritual' cords (the white Salar and the black Return) in the garden of the former convent, we created the multimedia part of the installation in a transitory part of Gerkenberg's basement. Between a former meditation room and some ateliers for the more creative monks, we hung up in a straight line the all but two cords, mounted the screens and atached the speakers.

We decided to play around a bit with the sensors and simulate interactivity. This allowed us to let more people enter the space at the same time (this was needed due to the concentration of the visitors in a very short period.

As our control room was situated next to the media space we could hear the spontaneous reactions of the visitors - real time feedback. The reaction of the first basement visitors, 2 female aboriginals: "oooooooew, these threads just smell aaaaaawfull... "

sensor set up

Also, we discovered that some visitors don't respect conventions like... staying out of 'no entry' areas. Maybe the fact that they for once could touch the expo objects gave them a sense of absolute freedom. Yes, they got themselves in a real expo-hacker-mood. We recorded this with a webcam pointed at the door and moved by my heart beat.
Title of the resulting short film: 'Q No Entras'.