The Palais de Tokyo in Paris is officially my favorite museum in the world. I was recently treated to the awesome experience of Last Manoeuvres in the Dark by Fabien Giraud & Raphael Siboni:
“Since 2007 Fabien Giraud and Raphael Siboni have shared an attraction towards community-based practice, bad taste and the different forms of subculture. Mixing tuning, punk, hardcore and Guinness records, their work lies at the intersection between artistic practice, Pop culture and scientific research.
Last Manoeuvres in the Dark is made up of a set of terracotta of Darth Vader masks arranged in a military formation, a distant reminder of the Xi’an Army. The supremely evil hero of the Star Wars trilogy created by George Lucas in 1977 is endowed with an artificial intelligence system, developed to work out the darkest musical hit of all time. Each mask is fitted with a powerful microprocessor. Connected to a central computer, they operate as a network. Darth Vader, the epitome of villainy, is here multiplied ad infinitum, drawing a curve of absolute darkness.”
