re-hands-on-pop-up-office

Site-specific installation, website, IP camera, 2014




re-hands-on-pop-up-office, installation shot, 2014. Photo by Martin Chanda ©

At first glance, everything appears normal in this office, build for the Triennale d'art du Valais. On closer inspection you see that everything is a bit off. Fragments of a triangle chart appear on the calendar, clock, and binders. Walking further in to the office you hear music from the Cisco Systems answering machine from the computer. On screen are three doors displayed flying over a road in the mountains. All three doors, in the end, lead you to the same place. Finally, you see yourself on the computer screen, from behind, captured by a hidden surveillance camera. These photos are then posted on Twitter, and the viewer becomes the viewed.






re-hands-on-pop-up-office, installation shot, 2014. Photo by Martin Chanda ©



re-hands-on-pop-up-office, installation shot, 2014. Photo by Martin Chanda ©



re-hands-on-pop-up-office, installation shot, 2014. Photo by Martin Chanda ©


The website

The landing page has three doors which lead, like a reverse 'Colossal Cave Adventure' or a funnel, to one image of the surveillance camera in the office which is connected to the internet where the visitor(s) would see themselves.






Landing page, HTML, CSS, Cisco on hold tone, 2014



Step 2b, HTML, CSS, Marimba tone, 2014



Step 2a, HTML, CSS, Sound from HUAHUEHUAHUE BR BR2014



Step 2c, HTML, CSS, Cave drop sound, 2014



Step 3a, HTML, CSS, Facebook notification sound, 2014



Step 3b, HTML, CSS, Windows XP start up sound, 2014


Photos from the IP camera

This is a selection of photos from over 15 000 photos I received from the motion detection of the IP camera during the time of the exhibition.






re-hands-on-pop-up-office, IP camera photo, 1280 x 720 px, 2014



re-hands-on-pop-up-office, IP camera photo, 1280 x 720 px, 2014



re-hands-on-pop-up-office, IP camera photo, 1280 x 720 px, 2014



re-hands-on-pop-up-office, IP camera photo, 1280 x 720 px, 2014



re-hands-on-pop-up-office, IP camera photo, 1280 x 720 px, 2014



re-hands-on-pop-up-office, IP camera photo, 1280 x 720 px, 2014



re-hands-on-pop-up-office, IP camera photo, 1280 x 720 px, 2014



re-hands-on-pop-up-office, IP camera photo, 1280 x 720 px, 2014



re-hands-on-pop-up-office, IP camera photo, 1280 x 720 px, 2014



re-hands-on-pop-up-office, IP camera photo, 1280 x 720 px, 2014



re-hands-on-pop-up-office, IP camera photo, 1280 x 720 px, 2014



re-hands-on-pop-up-office, IP camera photo, 1280 x 720 px, 2014



re-hands-on-pop-up-office, IP camera photo, 1280 x 720 px, 2014



re-hands-on-pop-up-office, IP camera photo, 1280 x 720 px, 2014



re-hands-on-pop-up-office, IP camera photo, 1280 x 720 px, 2014



Visitors

Two visitors using the computer in the office and discovering the pieces of the NSA's XKeyscore pyramid in the room. The IP Camera was remotely controllable and I could play sound out of the speakers attached to it. In this video you can hear The Police's 'Every Breath You Take'.







re-hands-on-pop-up-office, 2014




Exhibitions

CURRENTS, CURTAINS, CODE, Triennale d'art du Valais, Fully, Switzerland