Mammoth Project: Mammoth Robot 20th Century (prototype)
The Mammoth Project, the fantastical manifestation at Expo 2005 Aichi.* A giant quadruped walking robot, built out of accumulated steel scrap and industrial waste, 20 meters long and weighing 200 tons, and powered by a diesel engine. Spouting black smoke, it would make an appearance at the Expo site, be transported by a huge helicopter to the Nagoya urban area and then to the port, where it would be loaded onto a huge boat straight to Siberia. Finally, it would be carried to the permafrost excavation site of the frozen mammoth and buried there, a time capsule plan born of the bloated ambition of twentieth century humanity. Once the project was called off, university students assisted in turning it into a virtual project, displayed as a diorama model (2004); and then in Kodomo Toshi Keikaku (The City of Children, 2005), it was developed into the frozen Mammoth Pavilion, and in that way the concept was preserved. * The world's fair held in Aichi Prefecture, near the city of Nagoya.
- year
- 2004
- material
- Steel, industrial waste
- size
- 136x87x260
- possession
- Private collection
