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Populär Culture Review
miss all of this would be to miss the art, to miss our cue to be on stage and
Figure. 7. Detail of The Lab is Dystopia. Photograph by John W. Sisson
Fourth Installation
You Are Here: The Lab Is Dystopia, 2008 (Chicago)
Description: Using old bricks and 2 x 4 boards from a dismantled
nineteenth-century bam, a maze is constructed on the floor of a room. The maze
spans 625 square feet, inside of which the viewer encounters a variety of robots.
Nearly all of the robots look like mice or have map-origami mice on top of them
(i.e., pages of maps that have been folded into origami mice and affixed on top
of the robot base). The public, always outside the maze, plays the role of the
scientist, either torturing or rescuing the animals inside by using various remote
Controls and other devices to change the environment and alter the behavi