Viktor – 5000 Years of Chairs

Viktor, Jürg Lehni, 2006 DC motors, tool head, sprung steel reels, cables, custom made controller, Scriptographer software Produced with Defekt GmbH, with support of Swiss Federal Office of Culture and Migros http://juerglehni.com/works/viktor The video shows Viktor illustrating the lecture «5000 Years of Chairs» by Michael Marriott about the development of the world through advances in chair making technologies spanning five thousand years. The talk was hold on the occasion of the exhibition «A Recent History of Writing & Drawing» by Jürg Lehni & Alex Rich, Institute of Contemporary Arts, London, 2008.