New video documentation of Charmed has been published on the Kuuki web site, and includes footage recorded at ISEA 2008. There is also footage of Charmed at Performance Space, Sydney, May 2008, courtesy of Experimenta and Steve McDonald.
After the exhibition at the Western Australian Museum Charmed will return home to have two smashed screens repaired - and then will continue on the Experimenta Playground National Tour 2009.
Charmed has been prodded and poked by maybe 40 thousand odd people and survived in tact with only a few scratches and lot of dirt from hands and fingers. In the video documentation, towards the end, is some footage of Charmed being played with at the opening of the Play++ exhibition, and you will see a variety of ways people touch the objects.
Not everyone is gentle, but no one to date has broken anything. Well that was until this week. It seems the work elicited a strong response from someone in Perth who decided to take to it rather violently, smashing two of the three screens.
Fortunately screens can be replaced...