Chris Burden When Robots Rule: The Two Minute Airplane Factory

by Frances (Chris Burden) Art - Morris

At the end of the twentieth century ordinary people have little or no understanding of how the world we live in functions, how the food we eat is grown or how the objects we use are manufactured. For The Two-Minute Airplane Factory Burden has designed a factory-like assembly line which will construct model aeroplanes from paper, plastic and balsa-wood parts. The process, which is all on view, culminates in the launch of the planes, which fly up and circle round before descending to land on the gallery floor, to be collected and sold to visitors. Burden lays bare the principles of mass production in a way that is entertaining, ingenious and provocative.

Paperback

First published July 15, 1999

Reviews

[Peter · Rating 4 out of 5]

I probably like this book a lot (although it is quite thin a and doesn't offer much beyond a general catalog of the exhibit) because I have such great memories of the summer I spent in London studying and writing a paper on this particular work. Good times.