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THEY DESTROYED MOST OF THEIR BAGGAGE, WHICH WAS... Blue 7 Gallery, Santa Monica '05  
Video installation by Anne Niemetz and Davey Whitcraft
“They destroyed most of their baggage, which was immense” takes a humorous approach towards the topics of one-way realities and hopeless situations. Mounted to the wall, a wooden box with circular cutout shows a tiny hamster running endlessly in its wheel. However, the observer’s perception is challenged, for it is not the wheel that is spinning but the hamster, as if placed in a centrifuge. In its darker interpretation, the situation of the rodent might remind the observer of daily life. The philosophically inclined observer might laugh and ask himself the question: is Sisyphus rolling the stone or is the stone rolling Sisyphus? The only intention the artists can be held responsible for is making a hamster spin in a box.
See: http://users.design.ucla.edu/%7Eaniemetz/theydestroyed/