Inhabit the Planet

2016
Socio-political participative game for thousands of visitors.

Visitors were asked to choose one possible role in future society and inhabit an empty planet. The three planets have meaning: wealth stands for capitalism, beauty for fascism, and equality for communism. This large sticker participation tries to analyse audience’s political preferences in a playful and engaging way.

Exhibited at Typojanchi, Seoul (KR). Under the name “Robot City” at Cinekid Festival, Amsterdam (NL).

  • Inhabit the Planet: a black planet wall of violet glitch scaffolds and stickers spans a magenta carpet in a brick hall
  • Inhabit the Planet: two young visitors reach up to press stickers onto a black planet wall crowded with coloured dots
  • Inhabit the Planet: hundreds of round stickers, each a tiny figure in pink, green, red or blue, swarm a black planet
  • Inhabit the Planet: glitchy red, pink and green blobs float on black around white words 'PROGRESS', 'GROWTH', 'INHABIT'
  • Inhabit the Planet: role sticker 'CARE 1', a red-haired figure sits in a white circle on magenta, blue dots along one arm
  • Inhabit the Planet: role sticker 'PROTECT 2', a figure stands in a white circle on red, blue dots stuck along both arms
  • Inhabit the Planet: role sticker 'PRODUCE 3', a figure bends in a white circle on blue, one hand planted on the hip
  • Inhabit the Planet: role sticker 'INVENT 4', a blue-dotted figure crouches with arms spread in a white circle on green
  • Inhabit the Planet: an empty planet of glitchy red, green and blue fragments, planks and poles hovers on black
  • Inhabit the Planet: three black planets, 'WEALTH', 'BEAUTY', 'EQUALITY', rise on coloured stools in a columned hall
  • Inhabit the Planet: text-heavy black slide, a white circle beside the rules 'CHOSE YOUR ROLE' and 'FIND YOUR PLANET'
  • Inhabit the Planet: a barefoot figure kneels in a teal planet on black and hoists a wire cube tipped with blue stickers