Protocol
2001
Cast aluminum, red velvet, glass, carpet, and sound
Variable dimensions
The installation comments on the absence of dialogue and communication between countries and politicians. The microphones´ shape creates the design of two chairs and a table, as a symbolic furniture. In several countries, this kind of microphone is associated with politicians’ speeches. Particularly, the chair’s design evokes the human position at the political level. The microphones in the back of the chair, symbolically, imply that anybody that sits down in those chairs to talk will always be saying things the person behind him pronounces. The spectator can be seated in the gallery; but the decision of take a seat in the piece is, metaphorically, like the decision of entering in a political position.