The Vacation House Chair
The Vacation House Chair is a conceptual art project that plays with the metaphor of the vacation house and the chair as it teeters back and forth between fantasy and reality. The real physical object consists of a painted white wood chair on top of which is mounted a symbolic representation of a small house, complete with an entry door and two picture windows. The picture windows are equipped with little video screens that are linked to a wide variety of images and sounds (supplied by the Internet) of many different vacation destinations.
The user sits on the chair and pulls the hinged hollow vacation house down over his or her head. They can then call out the name of a desired vacation destination and the Vacation House Chair immediately searches its memory banks and displays images and sounds onto the picture windows from that place.
In this way, the user can vacation anywhere on earth (and/or in space) without having to physically go anywhere except to the Vacation House Chair.
Status: Built
Location: Santa Fe, NM, US
