Today’s poll question: would you live in a giant hamster wheel for ten days?
As performance art, two men are living in a giant hamster wheel for ten days:
Think it’s tough living with a roommate? These two fellows are sharing a house that spins like a hamster wheel—one on the inside and one on the outside—forcing them to coordinate their daily routine.
Ward Shelley and Alex Schweder’s In Orbit is a performance art piece examining the social effects of architecture. For ten days, they are spending 24 hours a day in their spinning “house”—although I wonder how the bathroom situation works. All of the furniture is attached to the wheel itself, and the two have to operate in tandem in order to access a different piece of furniture. The shape of the house affects not just the boundaries but also the relationship between the two dwellers.
(The performance is called In Orbit, and derives from the idea of a rotating space wheel, but it looks like a hamster wheel, too.)
If I have the time someday, I’d try it. I’m just not sure I’d last ten days…
How ’bout you?
No thank you.
Life is already like this.
This critic thinks this bit of performance art has gone to the rats. Laughable, if anything…
Maybe for about a half hour – tops!
that wheel must have been expensive to build
Ben there , done that.
Yes, indeed!