Sensitive service (2020)
As a result of long negotiations, iBiom Inc. received an order to provide "Sensitive service" on the territory of the "Manezh" during the exhibition "Nemoskva is just around the corner".
The "Sensitive service" started at the very entrance to the museum — in the cloakroom area. A pleasant, soft voice greeted the guests and informed them about the "Sensitivity Mode" in the museum with the support of iBiom.
The "Sensitive service" started at the very entrance to the museum — in the cloakroom area. A pleasant, soft voice greeted the guests and informed them about the "Sensitivity Mode" in the museum with the support of iBiom.
iBiom Inc. wins the tender
In order to minimize the potential stress for visitors due to special conditions, the package of services included: cleaning of stairways, "sensitive" audio support, a training video about observing personal hygiene, recreation areas with the possibility of indirect and safe communication as well as information posters and multifunctional keychains.
Mock-ups of safety signs for the stairs
The face of responsive service is the musical-cleaning group "Microfiber", whose traces appear in various parts of the museum.
In the video, "Microfiber" reenacts pandemic rituals (donning a mask and gloves, sanitizing, endless cleaning) through repetitive movements in the style of Japanese dance flash mobs and '80s aerobics. The video, a fun reimagining of sanitary obsession through obsessive aerobics, loosens things up and relaxes people.
In the video, "Microfiber" reenacts pandemic rituals (donning a mask and gloves, sanitizing, endless cleaning) through repetitive movements in the style of Japanese dance flash mobs and '80s aerobics. The video, a fun reimagining of sanitary obsession through obsessive aerobics, loosens things up and relaxes people.
Microfiber
Musical cleaning group "Microfiber"
Posters of gadgets needed to survive in a post-pandemic world were displayed in the museum space.
Post-pandemic world posters
In the pandemic and post-pandemic worlds, the benches have become places for one. You can't chat, you can't share experiences, and you can't get to know anyone.
The Sensitive service team has given the benches back their communicative function. On responsive benches in the Manege, one could listen to voice messages from previous visitors and leave a message for the next.
Communication took place with the help of a telegram bot in the form of a digital moth named Sandy.
The Sensitive service team has given the benches back their communicative function. On responsive benches in the Manege, one could listen to voice messages from previous visitors and leave a message for the next.
Communication took place with the help of a telegram bot in the form of a digital moth named Sandy.
Bot-communicator Sandy
Three times a day, Sandy sent out random invitations to her club. The guest who received the invitation went to the Manege Store, called out the code word "Insecta," and received a touchless keychain tool that is a sort of tendril that can be used to probe surfaces, just like Sandy.
Invitation to Insecta
Collective exhibition "NEMOSKVA IS JUST AROUND THE CORNER", The Manege Central Exhibition Hall, St. Petersburg, Russia
Installation views
process
The assembly of the installation
