Document Type
Article
Abstract
[First paragraph]
A restorative and favorite space after life's trials is the transitional space of a bathroom vanity where monotony or the intensity of living can be washed away. We refresh, rehearse, rework and realign an inner to an outer world through cleansing before a mirror. In "World Without Water", a new media interactive installation by co-creators, Suzette Araujo, Tahir Mahmood and Kalli Paakspuu, the act of facing a mirror becomes a physical interaction in culture jamming. Produced originally as a prototype at the Canadian Film Centre, "World Without Water" utilizes the physical interaction of a bathroom vanity in a worldwide activism about water consciousness. The sink and vanity mirror are (re)formed into an interventive site of environmental activism. This new media experience was featured at CODE Live One in the Cultural Olympiad in Vancouver from Feb. 4 to 28, 2010.
Repository Citation
Paakspuu, Kalli. "Inventions of Activism: 'World Without Water'." Reconstruction: Studies in Contemporary Culture vol. 15, no. 3, 2015, pp. 1–3. https://digitalcommons.odu.edu/reconstruction/vol15/iss3/8