COVID-19 Quarantine Social Isolation Hibernation Box

The key of Hibernation Box is about the exploration of the desire to be able to shut oneself off for a while, like the pause button on your remote control. When COVID-19 hit the world, and lockdowns and mandatory quarantine became a reality. People responded to this differently and have gone/are going through this with different experiences and emotions. Hibernation Box gives to possibility to put yourself on pause for a certain period of time.

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Hibernation Box

2020

Quarantine Social Isolation Hibernation Box The practice of quarantine and social isolation felt claustrophobic to many, and that is what inspired the artist for the first piece in this, what could and would become a series of work, the Isolation Box (installation 1).

Basically it was inspired by bears, when going into wintersleep, crawling in their a den / burrow / hole / cave shelter and what that selcuded room (den / safespace) would looked liked for 1 single human.


See also the film on YouTube, klick on the small photo here, to go to the large photo and scroll down for the YouTube insert. 
  

The box is made of two trees, replanted by six other trees.

Hibernation Box

2020

Quarantine Social Isolation Hibernation Box The practice of quarantine and social isolation felt claustrophobic to many, and that is what inspired the artist for the first piece in this work, the Isolation Box (installation 1). The idea is that one can stay inside of it and sleep the quarantine out. It is made to be a safe spot, a tiny room with the size of a single mattress and 90cm height (enough for Camilio to sit if he wakes up from hibernation), made of rustic wood and totally isolated – except for eight small holes fitted with antibacterial-antiviral filters which also protect from dust, Co2, etc. Inside there are some essentials: the floor is covered by a mattress, and there’s a drip, oxygen, light, fan, heart monitor – basically, all that is needed to use/operate it individually. The box opens and closes from the inside and has four glass windows to lessen the claustrophobic feeling. Using the concept of hibernation, one would need coma-inducing medicine and special hypercaloric food to be consumed the weeks before going in. this special diet would need to give 250.000 calories, the minimum amount needed for an adult man to survive for 3 months. IN the case of 2 weeks, the amendatory quarantine time in Timor-Leste, less is needed. The box is a building packed, no glue, no screws, so easy to dismantle or build up, so easiness of transportation and storage is assured. The box is made of two trees, replanted by six other trees.

Hibernation Box

2020

Quarantine Social Isolation Hibernation Box The practice of quarantine and social isolation felt claustrophobic to many, and that is what inspired the artist for the first piece in this work, the Isolation Box. The idea is that one can stay inside of it and sleep the quarantine out. It is made to be a safe spot, a tiny room with the size of a single mattress and 90cm height (enough for Camilio to sit if he wakes up from hibernation), made of rustic wood and totally isolated – except for eight small holes fitted with antibacterial-antiviral filters which also protect from dust, Co2, etc. Inside there are some essentials: the floor is covered by a mattress, and there’s a drip, oxygen, light, fan, heart monitor – basically, all that is needed to use/operate it individually. The box opens and closes from the inside and has four glass windows to lessen the claustrophobic feeling. Using the concept of hibernation, one would need coma-inducing medicine and special hypercaloric food to be consumed the weeks before going in. this special diet would need to give 250.000 calories, the minimum amount needed for an adult man to survive for 3 months. IN the case of 2 weeks, the amendatory quarantine time in Timor-Leste, less is needed. The box is a building packed, no glue, no screws, so easy to dismantle or build up, so easiness of transportation and storage is assured. The box is made of two trees, replanted by six other trees.

Suit and diaper Hibernation Box

2020

The key  of this artwork is about the exploration of the desire to be able to shut oneself off for a while, like the pause button on your remote control. When COVID-19 hit the world, and lockdowns and mandatory quarantine became a reality. People responded to this differently and have gone/are going through this with different experiences and emotions.

This art work intents to dialogue with the feelings of anxiety (ICamilio has an diagnosed anxiety disorder) and explores the desire that some of us have for a pause button, to go into hibernation and sleep through it all.

Because of this, Camilio explored this emotion by building a hibernation box. While some people freak out on the idea of a box , for others the idea of going into hibernation is to go to a safe space away from the world/anxiety. The box is comfy, protected and light inside with windows. The making of the hibernation box included playing with the idea that it could be working for real, but is not intended to explore a medical/scientific experiment (if at all possible).

Hibernation Box

2020

Quarantine Social Isolation Hibernation Box

Exhibition View ((IN)human) The practice of quarantine and social isolation felt claustrophobic to many, and that is what inspired the artist for the first piece in this work, the Isolation Box (installation 1). The idea is that one can stay inside of it and sleep the quarantine out. It is made to be a safe spot, a tiny room with the size of a single mattress and 90cm height (enough for Camilio to sit if he wakes up from hibernation), made of rustic wood and totally isolated – except for eight small holes fitted with antibacterial-antiviral filters which also protect from dust, Co2, etc. Inside there are some essentials: the floor is covered by a mattress, and there’s a drip, oxygen, light, fan, heart monitor – basically, all that is needed to use/operate it individually. The box opens and closes from the inside and has four glass windows to lessen the claustrophobic feeling. Using the concept of hibernation, one would need coma-inducing medicine and special hypercaloric food to be consumed the weeks before going in. this special diet would need to give 250.000 calories, the minimum amount needed for an adult man to survive for 3 months. IN the case of 2 weeks, the amendatory quarantine time in Timor-Leste, less is needed. The box is a building packed, no glue, no screws, so easy to dismantle or build up, so easiness of transportation and storage is assured. The box is made of two trees, replanted by six other trees.