Photo Booth Pantheon

Photo Booth Pantheon is a building, a memorial, a performative installation and a tool at the same time. A real photo booth which represents historical and contemporary tendencies of remembrance, which are getting more and more important in the age of viral sharing.

Pantheon, Walhalla, Hall of Fame. Places where the key figures of our history and mythology presented. Our heroes and our gods preserved there to the future. In the Builders Society there are key figures, heroes and gods as well. They can be anyone, and they are different year by year. This kind of turnover in the Builders Society should be reflected in a Pantheon of Hello Wood. Therefor our Pantheon design has no fixed statues inside in the wall niches, it is waiting for the members of Builders Society to fulfil it.

The Photo Booth Pantheon inviting all the members of the Hello Wood to become the part of the memorial. Thanks to the structure of our proposal, there are two types of spatial quality which the participants can meet.

One can simply enter to the ordinary inner space of the Pantheon, to participate as a visitor, a tourist or a believer of the Builders Society. Another can easily enter to the space of the very wall of the pantheon. Inside the wall there are a completely different space, which is operating as a background of the memories of the future. A nonsense but real space between present and future in theoretical manner.

And finally there is a hole in between. The wall niche which is open. This wall niche is an extension of the inner space of the Pantheon, but only accessible from the wall. It is a special hole which is more like a portal, a gate in-between. If someone become visible in this hole, they become history. They become the exhibited bust statue of the Pantheon for a while. Or, as long as they wish.

And at this point another thread of the story starts.

Regarding to, this Pantheon is a photo booth as well, in the middle of the ordinary space there was a camera which is operated in 360 degrees. That camera took special photos of the people who entered, while they were standing as the part of the memorial of the Builders Society. These photos are square cropped hence it is easily uploadable to Instagram.

On Instagram these images represent a historical type of memorial place the Pantheon which meets current habits of how our society collecting memories today.