The School of Visual Arts presents "Off-Course

The School of Visual Arts presents "Off-Course," an exhibition of work by first-year
MFA Designer as Author+Entrepreneur students curated by Kevin O'Callaghan.
The exhibit uses the structure of an 18-hole miniature golf course to explore
uncommon phobias including the fear of vacuum cleaners, long waits and reversed
gravity.
Each of the 18 participating students has designed a fully-functional miniature golf
course hole that highlights an obscure phobia. Using humorous and colorful displays,
the interactive exhibition aims to not only educate the visitor, but also to help drive a
particular fear away.
ZUIGERPHOBIA – FEAR OF VACUUM CLEANERS
ELLIOTT WALKER
While this phobia is most commonly found in infants and small dogs, there have been reports of
Zuigerphobia in human adults. For zuigerphobes, the threat of being sucked into a vacuum
cleaner is a real and present danger. That image, combined with the loud sound of most
consumer-grade vacuum cleaners, creates intense feelings of fear and anxiety in the presence of
these useful, effort-saving appliances.
ZUIGERPHOBIA – FEAR OF VACUUM CLEANERS
ELLIOTT WALKER
ZUIGERPHOBIA – FEAR OF VACUUM CLEANERS
ELLIOTT WALKER
TESTOPHOBIA – FEAR OF TAKING TESTS
CAMILLE MCMORROW
Fear of taking tests. While tests provoke anxiety and dread in many people, the truly testophobic
experience a much stronger reaction, sometimes with nausea, irregular heartbeat and rapid
breathing. The fact that our society places such an emphasis on testing only makes the suffering
of this phobia worse. The phobia makes it nearly impossible to think clearly, causing bad grades,
and in turn, more anxiety about tests.
TESTOPHOBIA – FEAR OF TAKING TESTS
CAMILLE MCMORROW
TESTOPHOBIA – FEAR OF TAKING TESTS
CAMILLE MCMORROW
VIDIGAMEAPHOBIA – FEAR OF VIDEO GAMES
SOOJI HAN
Vidigameaphobia is the fear of videiogames. This could range from just being plain scared of
video games to fears of being beaten at videos, or scared the video game might come to life.
VIDIGAMEAPHOBIA – FEAR OF VIDEO GAMES
SOOJI HAN
RHABDOPHOBIA – FEAR OF MAGIC
LEEN SADDER
Rhabdophobia is the fear of magic, particularly of spells, curses and fortune tellers. People who
are rhabdophobic are terrified of the idea of the super natural and stay away from psychics,
magic shows, and illusory tricks.
RHABDOPHOBIA – FEAR OF MAGIC
LEEN SADDER
HOPLOPHOBIA – FEAR OF FIREARMS
KATIE ESTES
Hoplophobia comes from the Greek word hoplon, meaning armor. One belief of people with this
fear can be that the control of the weapon lies in the firearm itself and not in the handler of the
weapon. In other words, guns do not kill people, people kill people.
HOPLOPHOBIA – FEAR OF FIREARMS
KATIE ESTES
HOPLOPHOBIA – FEAR OF FIREARMS
KATIE ESTES
ICHTHYOPHOBIA – FEAR OF FISH
ADAM KATZ
Ichthyophobia is a fear of all things fish, which entails; eating fish, swimming with fish, smelling
fish and encountering a dead fish. Ichthyophobia has a more common subtype called
galeophobia that is specifically focused on one type of fish: sharks. Icthyphobes are even
intimidated by metaphors that involve the term fish such as “something smells fishy” “he’s
swimming with the fishes” and “big fish in a small pond.”
ICHTHYOPHOBIA – FEAR OF FISH
ADAM KATZ
GIGAPHOBIA – FEAR OF TALL PEOPLE
SYLVIA VILLADA
Gigaphobia pertains to the fear of giants and large creatures, most commonly people. Therefore
any person above the average height of their immediate surroundings could be feared by
someone with this particular phobia.
GIGAPHOBIA – FEAR OF TALL PEOPLE
SYLVIA VILLADA
BAROPHOBIA - FEAR OF REVERSED GRAVITY
BRUNO ZALUM
Barophobia is an overwhelming, irrational fear of gravity. The barophobic individual may have a
completely distorted view of the force and consistency of gravitational pull. Individuals coping
with this phobia may fear that they will be crushed by the force of gravity were it to become too
great. On the other end of this spectrum, there are barophobic individuals who may fear that
gravity could reverse itself and that they will be doomed to live upside down.
BAROPHOBIA - FEAR OF REVERSED GRAVITY
BRUNO ZALUM
BAROPHOBIA - FEAR OF REVERSED GRAVITY
BRUNO ZALUM