TateShots: Kusama's Obliteration Room

Yayoi Kusama's interactive Obliteration Room begins as an entirely white space, furnished as a monochrome living room, which people are then invited to 'obliterate' with multi-coloured stickers.

Over the course of a few weeks the room is transformed from a blank canvas into an explosion of colour, with thousands of spots stuck over every available surface.

TateShots have produced this timelapse video of The Obliteration Room covering the first few weeks of its presentation at Tate Modern. It was conceived as a project for children, and was first staged at the Queensland Art Gallery in 2002.

Music courtesy of www.worldinwinter.co.uk

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[hungrysparrow]

I'm depressed to see that a gang of schoolboys are yet to draw a 6 foot sticker penis on the wall.

[Mike Klein]

No one thought to cover the lens of the camera?

[fizzrate]

So now "artists" are crowd sourcing their art?

[Fahranie Felicia Carre]

AMAZING!!!

[BlacknWhitesAlright]

Hah! Yes, this.

[BlacknWhitesAlright]

I suppose someone has to fill the role of the philistine who comes in and burps about how "my kid could do that" and "that's not art, that's some random crap," so thank you for doing that job so well - I sure as hell wouldn't want to.