I chose to try to describe the message of surveillance in Mona Hatoum's piece, called "Corps Étranger" (French for foreign body). In it, she basically explores her guts with a little camera.
Here it is, my first podcast:
Thursday, February 8, 2007
I See You...
What comes to mind when one thinks of surveillance? Is it security? Spying? The "third eye"? Among the pieces displayed in the ICA's Super Vision exhibit are about five that deal with this particular theme.
I chose to try to describe the message of surveillance in Mona Hatoum's piece, called "Corps Étranger" (French for foreign body). In it, she basically explores her guts with a little camera.
(Podcast to be posted next week--stay tuned!) As of Feb. 15, 2007, check!
Here it is, my first podcast:
I chose to try to describe the message of surveillance in Mona Hatoum's piece, called "Corps Étranger" (French for foreign body). In it, she basically explores her guts with a little camera.
Here it is, my first podcast:
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Your choice of Mona Hatoum's "Foreign Body" to consider ideas of surveillence gets me thinking... Here's a little tiny ("endoscopic") camera sneaking us inside peeks of her internal organs and tubes. In a way, it seems like espionage (like a little foreign spy who has snuck behind boundaries of what's usually unseen.) Who are we then who look at this footage of a pretty intimate/private kind? Are we "spies" too? If there is a line between SHOWING and LOOKING at something private, when is crossing it okay, or not? Do you need consent, so someone knows you're looking? Or do you just have a "right" to observe anything that a stranger puts out in there? If I look at your blog, am I spying?-Jen
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