Fluxus Box

This Fluxus box was based on the ideologies of the movie "Poltergeist" in the 1980s. It was said that they made it to represent the typical suburban home and how it was shifting from the 1950's societal "norms." This left many uncomfortable with the introduction to new technologies and lifestyle comforts. I wished to capture some of our "comforts" and add a hint of the apparitions that haunted the family. The chair slides back and forth  when pulling the tags from side to side, giving the effect of "it's moving by itself" when it's really just us in our own minds. The curtains represented the Halloween costume and how we always dress up as ghosts during Halloween, but we're terrified of the thought of being haunted by the past. The carpet is a reference to the carpets of the homes, they were all the same back then. Each drawer had something special inside: the top had marbles to make noise as Poltergeist means "noisy ghost" in German, the middle had "ectoplasm" to stimulate our touch sense, and the bottom played on our sense of smell as there is paper that was doused in tequila (based on the fathers drinking habit whenever he was stressed out). Lastly, I wished to capture Carol-Anne's innocence through the toys; the clown and the blocks that spell out SAFE. We are sheltered in our childhood from the reality of the world and we get a brutal awakening when we get older.