The work invites viewers to experience the dualistic nature of U.S. foreign influence, at once a global superpower in entertainment and detainment, pleasure and pain.
It takes as departure point the story of the first ever prototype for a massage chair, which was crafted from the rubble of post-WW2 Osaka by Nobuo Fujimoto following massive US firebombings.
The massage chair contained a playlist of 12 songs all titled ‘Seeing Stars’, songs from all over the world dealing with love, abuse, fame, all produced in the U.S.
massage chair, insulation foil, flag, USB, keychain, playlist
for ‘Everything That Happens Underground’, WEST, The Hague NL