Experimental Jetset Online Archive Lost Formats Links News About this site Contact	Hello Kilroy Kilroy Was Here / Hello Kitty Page 2 of 2				02. In April 2005, we were asked by AllRightsReserved and Sanrio Co. Ltd. to contribute to the Nakayoku Project, an exhibition to celebrate the 30th anniversary of Hello Kitty. The theme of this exhibition was 'Hide & Seek'.   So why do we participate in this sort of projects? We sometimes wonder about that ourselves. It's a show in Hong Kong we'll never see, organized by people (very friendly people, by the way) that we don't know, revolving around a character that is basically a twin of the Dutch 'Nijntje' (Miffy)... What exactly is the attraction? We can't really explain this. Part of it has to do with the fact that, around that time, we felt slightly depressed. So we hoped a light-hearted assignment, such as this one, would cheer us up. Also, we liked the absurdity of it all. We can remember an interview we once read, a long time ago, in which Sonic Youth described the feeling of being reviewed by heavy metal magazines as 'being shot into a pinball machine', or something similar. That's a little bit the feeling we have when we're working on bizarre assignments such as this one: like being shot into a pinball machine.		Anyway. Since the theme was 'Hide & Seek', we thought it was a good idea to refer to the classic 'Kilroy Was Here' poster. So we designed a poster in which we synthesized Kilroy and Kitty, and printed and framed it in exactly the same dimensions as the original poster that we have in our collection.   Coincidentally, around the same time, we designed another piece based on another poster in our collection (the Semiotic Liberation Army banner, see The Free Library).   We haven't received the pictures from Hong Kong yet, that's why we can't show you a proper photograph of the framed print. So for now, we can only offer you this image of the unframed version.
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