Compass chair

By Bruce Allan 2012

Bruce Allan

Installation Art
Chair
Found
Hybrid
Intervention

Dimensions
wooden chair, embedded compass, book of dreams

Referencing the Silk Road. Chair with embedded compass. Celebrating ideas and inventions that travelled in opposite directions - the chair from west to east, the magnetic compass from east to west. Compass chair was installed in the exhibition Nomadic Party, ARKO arts centre Seoul, South Korea. Readers of the book Dreaming in Different Languages, a collection of dream transcripts from around the world, were invited to sit on the chair while reading the dreams.