Agora Phobia (digitalis)

How can you experience unsafe public spaces and a profound sense of isolation? In 2000, artist duo Karen Lancel and Hermen Maat (Lancel/Maat) created the inflatable isolation column Agora Phobia (digitalis) for this purpose. This futuristic isolation column has already travelled to New York and Berlin, and lands in Rotterdam this Museumnacht010! You can find this work in the exhibition REBOOT

The column offers space for just one person and a computer. Step inside and engage in conversation with people who experience different forms of isolation, such as through cyberbullying, illegality, the covid pandemic, agoraphobia, or as refugees. Your dialogues, and those of others, unfold on agora-phobia-digitalis.org. Chat by yourself or watch the in-depth conversations and gain insight into the shared human experience of isolation and social connection in our technological society. Agora Phobia (digitalis) reveals a new kind of togetherness in which public and private worlds, and our intimate bodily and digital experience are intertwined.

Timetable:

• • 20:00 – 23:00

Photo: Pieter Kers