Coachella - 2015 Corporate Headquarters

"The Corporate Headquarters" by Derek Doublin and Vanessa Bonet

This was a really intriguing art installation in the venue. Essentially it is a 50-foot or so high tower resembling a corporate office highrise building. Inside there were hippos dressed in business suits walking around each floor appearing as if they were conducting stereotypical corporate business behavior—holding meetings, preparing reports, chatting on the phone with their feet on the chair, etc. The second floor had a typical stock ticker rolling horizontally in the background with some snarky phrases in place of the your standard Wall Street language.

The idea here being that corporate business is centered around being hungry and ravenous, like a hippo. The actors hired to play the hippo were great. Showing amazing tenacity, none of them broke character at any point during the day or night. There was also a mini-helicopter parked on the roof, not shown in the photo