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DRM Chair

“Friday Late Night”, Victoria & Albert Museum, London, 2013
Performance with the chair in collaboration with Gianfranco Baechtold, Laurent Beirnaert, Pierre Bouvier, Thibault Brevet, Raphaël Constantin, Lionel Dalmazzini, Edina Desboeufs & Arthur Desmet
Materials: birchwood, wax light sensor, resistor & Arduino

The DRM Chair has only a limited number of use before it self-destructs. The number of use was set to 8, so everyone could sit down and enjoy a single time the chair. A small sensor detects when someone sits and decrements a counter. Every time someone sits up, the chair knocks a number of time to signal how many uses are left. When reaching zero, the self-destruct system is turned on and the structural joints of the chair are melted. This was a 48h-long project, from concept to final video shooting.