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What Will Happen To This White Room When Kids With Colorful Stickers Arrive?

by Jill Pantozzi | 2:49 pm, January 3rd

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Kids with paint, markers, stickers or just about anything else that can leave a mark are dangerous in most rooms but not…The Obliteration Room. Sounds like a death trap set up by a supervillain but no, this is an art installation created by Yayoi Kusama in Australia. Hit the jump for photographic evidence of what this blank slate looked like once a few thousand kids got to put stickers anywhere they wanted. 

According to Colossal, the unique installation at the Queensland Gallery of Modern Art (which is a reworking of a similar one she did in 2002), began in December and will run through March 12 as part of the Look Now, See Forever exhibit. The artist “constructed a large domestic environment, painting every wall, chair, table, piano, and household decoration a brilliant white, effectively serving as a giant white canvas. Over the course of two weeks, the museum’s smallest visitors were given thousands upon thousands of colored dot stickers and were invited to collaborate in the transformation of the space, turning the house into a vibrantly mottled explosion of color.” Greatest idea ever or greatest idea ever?

I present to you, The Obliteration Room.

I want one.

(Colossal via Laura Hudson on Twitter)

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  • Frodo Baggins

    It looks like a rainbow swallowed pop rocks and soda.

  • http://www.wulfmojo.com Wulfy

    See this is art I can actually appreciate!

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Adam-Nelsen/502434460 Adam Nelsen

    How did said “little kids” reach so high? They’re dots 8 to 12ft up the walls.
    I call B.S. This shoot and environment was staged.
    Awesome concept. Why not actually do it and show the real results? Guarantee they’re be more interesting than this.

  • Anonymous

    I see adults in the pics and no words in the projects’ description that they aren’t allowed to pick up the kids if they are too small to reach the places they want to see colored. Or even place a sticker according to the kids’ wishes. 

  • http://twitter.com/evrybdysinvited Everybody’s Invited!

    This is amazing. I am totally inspired.

  • Anonymous

    I fail to see how this could be “staged”? Yayoi Kusama is a VERY well-established conceptual artist, so it’s not like it’s just some nobody trying to make a name for themselves using the internet’s penchant for pretty colors. (And this sort of installation is definitely characteristic of her work.) Did you never beg your parent/older sibling/aunt/uncle/other adult capable of lifting children to pick you up so you could touch the ceiling? Also, there are chairs in the room.

  • http://ladymercury-10.livejournal.com/ Maiasaura

    I love the idea, but the way the room looks with all those stickers kinda makes me feel claustrophobic.

  • http://www.facebook.com/alice.tordoff Alice Tordoff

    Is there a video of this?

  • John Wao

    Looks likes the Jets and the Sharks had a paintball fight…

  • Anonymous

    But… how did they get stickers on the ceiling???

  • Nickie Tenut

    ” Also, there are chairs in the room” <3

  • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=1117600978 Morgan Crown

    Gravitational pull.

  • Anonymous

    A variety of sticker types, and markers would look more interesting. 

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_R7GVNIKWG3S2UTHEQOMSZXT4M4 Anna B

    Are you serious?

  • Anonymous

    “Haha, yay!” That’s what this article made me say out loud.

  • http://twitter.com/ZigPosterman Ziggy Posterman

    Where are the Paint Markers All I see are stickers, I like stickers and all, but just see round stickers.