This document describes an art project called "What's in the Box?" where the artists placed two FedEx boxes with messages like "Are you scared?" and "I am not a bomb" in public spaces. Their goal was to challenge perceptions of anonymous boxes in society today. They found that reactions differed between cultures - tourists laughed, Germans photographed, and Americans called the cops. The reactions reflected societal fears and how unattended boxes are viewed with suspicion in today's security landscape.

1.  Was a project that was started to challenge
the idea of how we perceive the anonymous
box in our society today.
What’s in
the Box?

2.  The reason we started the project was
originally because of another idea we had of
people interacting with funny boxes. But we
always got comments on how nobody would
touch a box.
 People are terrorized by their own fear.
 So we wanted to make people think about
what or why they were afraid.

3.  We had two FedEx boxes that we tied some
string around and wrote:
 “Are you scared?” “Why?”
 “I am not a bomb” “I am just a box”
* And here we are putting the boxes…

4.  Tourists laughed
 Germans photographed
 Americans called the cops

5. * Just Some Boxes without The Box

6. * Just Some Boxes with The Box

7. * Some Person Who Wants To Buy The Box

8.  The reactions became like a kind of mirror to
the society or the world's state today. You
can't put boxes or luggage around
unattended. The scenery has changed how it
is being precieved i.e. the box on top of the
boxes in a present store is ok wheil a box with
a message is not if it has a string around it.