Uncontrolled Hermetic

© Raine Smith

Neal White

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Description
Uncontrolled Hermetic featured a single life-size human figure 'bagged' in a bunny suit made of felt. The figure stood outside a clean room, which housed a Victorian drawing machine that makes self-generated drawings apparently without human assistance. The body had seemingly been rejected not only by the clean room, but also by the artwork itself which could operate on its own.

The visitor to this space became part of the clean room system, an experience that asked the viewer to question their new role as a contaminating body.

(nhm.ac.uk/cleanrooms/)
Keywords
  • aesthetics
    • installation-based
    • site-specific
  • genres
    • installations
  • subjects
    • Arts and Visual Culture
      • paintings
    • Body and Psychology
      • bodies (animal components)
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