The Lebensraum
is an interactive 'living space' of memory and history. The viewer/agent enters into the larger room, sits on an absurd, interactive foam couch, triggering projections of varying tracks and sections of a video/sound montage of historical symbols and recreations; freezing dominant images and representations, while others emerge as glimpses, and the unknowns as blackness, minimal text references.
Waiting their turn, the single viewer enters into the second space the Liberty Cap-sule, through a transparent or thin white door. Inside are two video screens: one with the silent heads of interviews the other with randomized historical images and events, accompanied by voice overs of testimonials and remembrances of those moments. As the agent nears the screens, a sensor is triggered, freezing the video images and triggering a video camera to interview the agent for a 30 second time frame.
In the 30 seconds, the viewer/agent articulates their memories and associations. As they leave the space, the two screens of the Liberty Cap-sule randomize and continue. The viewer exits out into a hallway that follows around both rooms, back to the entrance. Half way through the hallway is a video screen that replays the viewer's own interview. Back at the entrance is a monitor and the archive of the day's interviews. The viewer can explore others' experiences or return to the foam coach of the Liebesraum.
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