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Tuesday, November 04, 2003
Surveillance and the "p" words--porn, politics and prurience
Post from Brian WallaceMark Shetabi's observation (about the prominence of surveillance as a topic) is correct (see Nov. 4, 9:41 a.m. post), but I'd be interested to know why he thinks it's true.
I, naturally, have an opinion: to me, it's a way to address semi-perennial "issues" such as the body, pornography, and politics while seeming (and in some cases being) fresh (and, er, without getting labelled as prurient).I brought Surveillance Camera Players to Cambridge/Boston last spring as one part of a conference on digital art and public space [ed. note: Digital Art and Public Space: Expanding Definitions of Public Art], and their performance was pretty provocative (shown right, above, SCP's map of surveillance cameras in Times Square area; shown left, image from an SCP performance).
Their tapes are interesting as documentation, but participating in a critical (literally, a finger-pointing) tour of a populated streetscape is very engaging...putting your body into a politically active mode for the delectation of some anonymous viewer...why, it's those issues of the body, pornography, and politics again.
--Brian Wallace is the director of exhibitions at Moore College of Art
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