The Believer – The Compassion-Passion Machine

“In November 2010, Jon Bernad, a twenty-seven-year-old performance artist
who dogsat for a celebrity, stuck his head into a dark box that, from
the outside, resembled a chamber for kissing. Hanging from rods like a
portable wardrobe rack, the black corrugated cardboard box had an
interior divided in half by a two-way mirror. This “Mirrorbox” was
installed on the patio outside the Silent Movie Theater in Los Angeles,
and hung as part of an art show accompanying a screening of the
documentary The Invention of Dr. Nakamats, about an eccentric Japanese scientist.

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