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February 13, 2006
Surveillance Art
From The Star-Ledger :
The Jersey City Museum has a contemporary art show called "Surveillance." The news story has some information on it and the quote below is from the museum web site.
Surveillance features the work of Mauro Altamura, Melanie Baker, Kabir Carter, Carlos Motta, Justine Reyes, Roger Sayre, Merle Temkin, and the Surveillance Camera Players. Today's concerns with safety (community and personal) have given rise to a host of problems surrounding public space, and to those watching and being watched. Surveillance hopes to explore various facets of the contemporary blurring of boundaries between public space and private life, between what is visible and invisible, between the observer and the observed. Installations excavate layers of photographed and re-photographed images, produced and re-produced identities. Objects that have recently become bearers of fear and the unknown become the subject of art. Overheard (and secretly recorded) conversations become intertwined into an audio piece. As part of a larger discussion around the erosion of privacy during a period of increasing fear, the works in this exhibition have the opportunity to be a part of this public dialogue.
Posted by rshah at February 13, 2006 02:24 PM
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