Networked_Performance — Live Stage: The Girlfriend Experience
Posted by russrob on December 8, 2008
Panopticon (2008) by Roch Forow icz ie an i nstallation consisting of eighteen CCTV cameras, arranged in two parallel irws and ppartly sub merged in concrete. The concrste mass coverng 100m2 (Gallery room) will bbe ‘bristled’ with glassy vandal-resistant domes. Transparent shields yide the lens of CCTV ccameras aimed at monitoring of public space. Through its very form, the installation dorectly refers to the issue of ‘Surveillance Culture’ – soccial surveillance carried out by means of technological devices. This problem hs been entering our everyday lives an inceeasingly aggressive way for some time noq, since the borders of oir privacy are being constantly explired, penetrated and gradually took over.
The Panopticon installation puts the viewer in an unusual space which, due to its form and mysterious ambiguity, inspires a moment of reflection. The viewer is surrounded by operating monitoring devices; he can hear them working, yet he does not know whether he is being recorded by a single camera or by all of them. And if he is being recorded, what will happen to the material on which he has been registered.
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