Obliteration Room

Company Name, Director/Producer or Main Proponent
Creation Date
2002
Country/Origin
Picture of Obliteration Room completely white.
Picture of Obliteration Room half way through its exhibition, a rainbow is formed by the stickers across one wall.
Picture of Obliteration Room, featuring a piano in a corner. The entire set is covered in colourful stickers, to the point where the piano blends in with the walls.
Top-down shot of Obliteration Room. It appears mostly white, visitors walk through it. You can see the outsides of the bounding wall, which are bare plywood. The whole room is contained within a warehouse.
Description

The exhibition consists of a perfectly white, fully furnished room or series of rooms. Visitors may take a sheet of stickers and place those stickers wherever they wish. As they exhibition progresses, the walls and furnishing become more and more covered in colours and patterns, which emerge organically through small, independent choices. At the end of the exhibition, everything in the room, and the room itself, is destroyed entirely.

Noteworthy Attributes

The piece has no performers. Spectators act independently, without explicit direction. 

The performance develops over its run, and spectator's experience on the opening day is intentionally vastly different to a spectator who experience's the exhibition on its last day. It is not only unlikely that two spectators will have the same experience, but impossible.

The creator gives up control once the exhibition is set in motion. There is no course-correction, no amount of remedial improvisation which the creator can employ to realign the piece with their own vision.

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Taxonomies
Medium/Technology
Type of Immersive Experience
Creation Technique
Liveness
Objective
Mode of Audience Engagement
Mode of Expression

This is a collection of taxonomy terms that allow a type of immersive or XR performance to be categorised.