Victoria & Albert Museum 'Surveillanced' Multimedia Installation
Concept & Creative Direction: Henrique Ghersi
Dates: January 16th- 18th 2015
‘Surveillanced’ was part of a special three day extension to the Victoria & Albert Museum’s Disobedient Objects Exhibition (26 July 2014 - 1 February 2015). The piece explores the juxtaposition between how digital technologies can both take away our so much of our privacy as we are in an almost constant state of surveillance; yet this very same technologies allow us to record and expose situations via pictures, video and audio that would not otherwise get coverage in the mainstream media. We sacrifice privacy but conversely gain the power of giving a voice to the voiceless.
This video installation features footage from live web cameras that monitor faces and places from around the world. It also brings together first-hand video footage shot in 9 different countries from 17 different protests that have taken place around the world in the last few years submitted by various people that experienced the events in person (see below for credits)
Proposal Mock-Up and Technical Drawings:
Installation Multiscreen Video:
Protest Footage Contributed by:
Adam LaFrance / Justify For All Protests / Boston, United States / December 2011 Angel Rodríguez Colón / Occupy Boston / Boston, United States / October 2011 Carolina Egüez / Pro-Palestenian Rally / Boston, United States / June 2014 Edouard Chemin / March Against Terrorism / Paris, France / January 2015 Diane Wigger / March Against Terrrorism / Paris, France / January 2015 Johannes Appenzeller / Pre-Elections Rally / Panama City, Panama / May 2014 Enrique Durand / Anti-Proposition 8 Nationwide Protests / Boston, United States / August 2008 Henrique Ghersi / The Exit Protests / Caracas, Venezuela / February / 2014 / Anti-Nuclear Demostration / Tokyo, Japan / October 2013 Lana Guseva / Opposition Rally / Moscow, Russia / December 2014 Lev Kats / Opposition Rally / Moscow, Russia / December 2014 Mike O'Connell / Anti-Austerity Protest / Madrid, Spain / November 2012 Rosanna Easton / March Against Terrorism / Paris, France / January 2015 Seamus Mirodan / Confederation Cup Riots / Rio De Janeiro, Brazil / June 2011 Kamiya Jing / Anti-Nuclear Demonstration / Tokyo, Japan / October 2013 / Anti-Secrecy Laws Demonstration / Tokyo, Japan / March 2013 / Anti-Racism Demonstration / Tokyo, Japan / April 2013
Spatial Planning:
Andrew Persoff
Special Thanks:
Vanya Bowden
Douglas O'Connell