Do any of you remember Chile's Casa de Vidrio back in 2000? While it was over nine years ago, we still find the whole thing a bit bewildering. Chilean actress Daniella Tobar agreed to live in a 12-square-meter all-glass house, in full public view, right in the middle of the capital city of Santiago. After just two weeks of carrying on her normal daily routines in this setting, she had to call it quits...
Crowds gathered: some gawked, others protested. It seems the installation, funded by Chile's National Fund for the Development of the Arts, answered (or at least asked) some crucial questions: What is the public's opinion of the right to privacy? Where is the boundary between public and private? Much of the conservative nation reacted with outrage at an individual carrying out their private daily life in full public view.
We saw in this video that public attention waned when Tobar was replaced with a male inhabitant. What more does this say about home life and privacy?
How would this project differ today, with the prevalence of Facebook and other networks that didn't even exist nine years ago?
(Images: Jorge Christie)
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Humans as zoo animals.
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Plain jane I work with a few of those (zoo animals).
view Joan52's profile
Kafka would have loved this...
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Clearly Daniella wasn't narcissistic enough! Based on the numbers of people who try out for reality shows, I bet there are lots of people that would have loved to poop in front of an audience.
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I'm amazed she lasted as long as 2 weeks. Would've been an interesting psychology experiment too.
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The poor guy!
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The whole idea of a bathroom where everyone can watch is just creepy.
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Puh-leeze. 9 years is not that long ago. It would be the same now.
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'We saw in this video that public attention waned when Tobar was replaced with a male inhabitant. What more does this say about home life and privacy?'
That young aspiring actresses are gawk-worthy and middle-aged men are not? I am curious what would have happened had the male been a young handsome aspiring actor...
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here in Puerto Rico that was made, as a competition. about 8 persons were put there, the rule was they could't talk to anyone. No tv, no newspaper, no internet. A woman won, she stayed there about 6 months alone, the prize was like $120,000 among other things. She kept to herself by smiling and waving at people, reading books she brought in, cleaning around and exercising. I think the bathroom was the only place where people couldn't see her, but she couldn't stay there for a long time. When she was released, she told the press she did it for her family.
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