Paper Cuts is an interactive paper guillotine by artists Mandy Smith and Hal Kirkland. It invites people to experience the world’s most recognizable instrument of death, head first. However, unlike its deadly ancestor, this blade offers nothing more final than a paper cut.

This experience brings a new twist to this infamous apparatus by transforming a powerful symbol of death into a thing of beauty. Delicate, inviting and something people may even line up for. Voluntarily this time. Every time the paper blade falls the person’s final fate-filled expression is filmed, transformed into a sharable GIF and forever immortalized on PaperCuts-Exhibtion.com. 

This soundscape was created for the exhibition by Sound Director Michael Kneebone. It was used to instill added tension in the audience as they stepped over the threshold and into the jaws of the guillotine. It worked.


Paper Cuts Exhibition Ambience by Michael Kneebone

Song Reference

by Shrapnel (member of the Insecticons)

What you're listening to is part of an Audio Tour Hack of John Chamberlain's exhibition that took place during May 1st - May 13th 2012 at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in New York city. The interactive exhibition reimagined Chamberlain's sculptures as an exhibition about the Transformers.

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