Obliteration Room: a stark white room with thousands of kid-placed colored dots

(Image: GoMA Blog)

Yayoi Kusama's installation The Obliteration Room at the Brisbane Gallery of Modern Art started as a stark white room, and then thousands of passing children were given brightly colored dots with which to decorate it. The result is exuberant and marvellous.

(Image: Stuart Addelsee, used with permission)

This is What Happens When You Give Thousands of Stickers to Thousands of Kids (Thanks, Fipi Lele!)

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DonBoy2

Is there some kind of text in the upper right quadrant, just right of the center “line”, or is my brain just doing its spurious pattern-finding thing?
- Wowbagger_Infinitley_Prolonged
  
  If you look at the “in progress” pictures, you can see that they’re empty picture frames.
  - DonBoy2
    
    Oh, got it. It’s all-white but not featureless. Thanks.
JPhilipp

On a somewhat related note, here’s an experiment I conducted a while ago to see where people would click on seeing near-blank images:
http://blogoscoped.com/click2/
- Zero Sonico
  
  That’s really cool. Did you throw it in the submitterator yet?
  - JPhilipp
    
    Great idea, here you go:
    http://submit.boingboing.net/2012/01/where-do-people-click-when-faced-with-blank-or-semi-filled-images.html
artbyjcm

How did the kids reach up so high on the walls? lol
- http://twitter.com/alexstapleton Alex Stapleton
  
  It’s more “exuberant and marvellous” if we ignore that and just believe that small children did it all.
Lobster

I like it way better pure white.
http://www.theroguegourmet.com The Rogue Gourmet

I was lucky to be in Brisbane last week and visited this show with my daughter who loved it. They will give adults stickers too if you ask (the ceiling is covered with stickers as well)
bklynchris

pure unadulterated pleasure………
digi_owl

Explosion in a paint factory comes to mind.
gus mueller

any word on the level of e-coli contamination after all those stickers were smushed
into place?
- rob_cornelius
  
  there is always one insn’t there
http://twitter.com/digitalArtform Joseph Francis

Now shoot it in stereo.
dahlia

kids rule.
Antinous / Moderator

White Box

Once again, this makes no sense if you click on the video embed because it strips off the time code. Click on the link instead.
- Palomino
  
  Her faux designer straight jacket is too funny… Asylum Chic.
teapot

Yayoi Kusama did the same thing years ago (putting dots on an ordinary-looking living room), but instead of using dots on a white room she used dots in a darkened room with UV light.

http://mutablematter.files.wordpress.com/2011/12/dotted_room.jpg

Kusama gets ZERO points for stylistic evolution, but everything she makes looks cool.

Her Infinity Room is awesome.. the best thing is they have to shut you in there, meaning galery-based IP infringement is a sinch.
Palomino

I’m not too sure about this. When I was 5, I saw Dr. Seuss’s movie, The 5,000 Fingers of Dr. T. This is a 2011 version, looks like the last kid standing and that the idea is not all that unique.