Destroying the Cubicle

Visitors to the gallery in early October 2016, when Cubicle opened, would have encountered the view above, where some slack cables within the fairly typical office space hinted at something awry. Those coming in the enusing months would have seen something like the image below, where the "office" appeared to be in the process of getting sucked into a black hole in the corner of the gallery.

Schnipper timed the winch – powerful enough to pull 45 tons – to run continuously yet slowly during gallery hours, about one millimeter per hour. A time-lapse video from a camera in the corner of the room revealed the two-month destruction, which could be interpreted as commentaries on the obsolescence of cubicles in the age of open-plan offices, the psychological entrapment of office spaces, and the need to consider if and how today's office environments will become tomorrow's debris.