Hacking the Good days…

So was just chilling out with my new Italian friend from my class, and she was so sweet to invite me to an art installation opening at Creshire St. At first I thought it was going to be just a few artifects and people popping champagn, but when got there I was absolutely blown away to no where….

To begin with we got into a little hotel like building, which was aparently tiny. Once you got in you see different tiny rooms, that resembled explorers’ and backpackers’ rooms, and I was thinking, so what’s so special about this??

Then I saw a room that looked like an explorer’s room, quite cute with all the ancient exotic displays,

While I was still thinking, well, that’s just furniture – I got blown away when I found that there was an entrace to a big cell underneath the building, about 5000 sq feet? In this lower ground cell, there were different patches of display, like computer waste, old SUV cars with TV and stale pizzas… Something that reminded me Kill Bill.

Then I spotted a room full of people – as well as hardcore porn posters in the container-coverted room – absolutely bewildered (if not blown away),

Well my instant reaction was, basically none. I was just kinda shocked – but then there was this huge line of people waiting by the fridge at the end of the room, and I thought people were trying to climb in the fridge for silly touristy picture – no… that was too simple – hell no!

They were actually climbing down to a secret dungeon from the fridge! The fridge is just a channel (well talking about Freudian, with this long entrance to the cave and all the explicit images on the walls..) to a dungeon,

This is how the hole looks like,

And the girl just went all the way down after signing the ‘if-shits-happen-the-organizers-are-not-responsible’ form. Dense, isn’t it? As chicken as I am (afraid of height, anything that required balancing) I didn’t go in. But the girls said it wasn’t that much of a deal down there.

I think what was brilliant of this installation is the idea of layering – You were standing on a random street in London thinking that there was a random hotel with random rooms – but when you got in you found that there was a huge cell inside of which there was secret entrance that resembled the little hole in the movie, being John Malkovich. That’s brilliant. I was rather blown away by this.

Gees. Still digesting what I saw today.