Remote Controlled Humans
Get coffee. Take your child to kindergarten. Go to work. Pick up your child. Get home. Don’t spill the coffee.
Remote Controlled Humans turns the routines of everyday life into a miniature race.
Contestants guide handmade human figures mounted on remote-controlled cars. Each human must collect coffee, deliver its child to a kindergarten teacher chosen from the audience, report to the boss for seven and a half seconds, collect the child again and race home.
The winner is the first to arrive home—with the child and some coffee still in the cup. It was considerably harder than it sounds—but also a lot of fun.
Developed as part of the Reversed Zoo universe, the work reduces human life to an obstacle course of care, employment, responsibility and caffeine. The humans appear to be in control, but someone else is always holding the remote.
The format later expanded into workshops where participants made their own remote-controlled humans.
First presented at P-ART-Y 2026 as part of its Reversed Zoo edition in Kristiansand, Norway.
Figures made by JAM PUBLIC.
The race was developed by JAM PUBLIC in collaboration with Ulrik Waarli Grimstad.
