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Mandy Smith + Hal Kirkland Paper Cut Participants With Guillotine

Mandy Smith + Hal Kirkland Paper Cut Participants With Guillotinemandy smith + hal kirkland paper cut participants with guillotine
Paper artist mandy smith and interactive creative director hal kirkland have collaborated on ‘paper cuts‘, an participatory sculpture that invites an audience to experience — head first — history’s most infamous apparatus of death. unlike it’s violent predecessor, however, this guillotine’s ‘blade’ offers nothing worse than a harmless paper cut.


Mandy Smith + Hal Kirkland Paper Cut Participants With Guillotinemandy smith hal kirkland interactive paper guillotine
the final paper sculpture in london
photo by aaron tilley
Mandy Smith + Hal Kirkland Paper Cut Participants With Guillotine
Mandy Smith + Hal Kirkland Paper Cut Participants With Guillotinemandy smith hal kirkland interactive paper guillotine
visitors to the installation are asked to put their neck on the line to experience the sculpture
Mandy Smith + Hal Kirkland Paper Cut Participants With Guillotinemandy smith hal kirkland interactive paper guillotine
the paper blade falls onto the participant’s neck
Mandy Smith + Hal Kirkland Paper Cut Participants With Guillotinemandy smith hal kirkland interactive paper guillotine
interacting with the paper sculpture
Mandy Smith + Hal Kirkland Paper Cut Participants With Guillotinemandy smith hal kirkland interactive paper guillotine
a camera records each visitors reaction
Mandy Smith + Hal Kirkland Paper Cut Participants With Guillotinemandy smith hal kirkland interactive paper guillotine
held within the paper guillotine
Mandy Smith + Hal Kirkland Paper Cut Participants With Guillotinemandy smith hal kirkland interactive paper guillotine
the aftermath
Mandy Smith + Hal Kirkland Paper Cut Participants With Guillotine
mandy smith hal kirkland interactive paper guillotine
(right) the paper sculpture in london
photo by aaron tilley
Mandy Smith + Hal Kirkland Paper Cut Participants With Guillotinemandy smith hal kirkland interactive paper guillotine
making-of the paper guillotine
Mandy Smith + Hal Kirkland Paper Cut Participants With Guillotinemandy smith hal kirkland interactive paper guillotine
white and pink paper flows down the sides of the supporting beams
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