Video: Politicians supervised by Luzinterruptus
2024 Author: Richard Flannagan | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-15 23:55
Many Westerners are unhappy with the sheer number of surveillance cameras on the streets and in public places. They believe that the authorities are watching over them, depriving them of their right to privacy. But the members of the creative association Luzinterruptus in his new installation Politicians Under Surveillance just watching those in power.
Luzinterruptus are renowned for their light installations. On the Kulturologiya. RF website, we have repeatedly talked about their work, for example, about glowing poetry, about an art project in defense of green spaces, or about an installation dedicated to nuclear paranoia. But the new project from this Spanish creative association is not directly related to light. But it is connected with politics.
Rather, with politicians. The very name Politicians Under Surveillance fully captures its essence.
Politicians Under Surveillance's work consists of seventy-five fake video cameras installed on the streets of Madrid one night before the Spanish parliamentary elections. These cameras were located near the election campaign of candidates for deputies, and were floated in its direction.
The participants in Luzinterruptus themselves explain the conceptual meaning of the installation Politicians Under Surveillance: “The project is aimed at making viewers think about the existing infrastructure of political power. Politicians take advantage of unlimited opportunities: they control financial markets, they interfere with science, they overthrow legitimately elected governments, they create crises that profit from when everyone else is poorer. And in our work we show that all this can be closely monitored, all this can be controlled."
The cameras of Politicians Under Surveillance installations were installed on the sidewalk and attached to poles, walls, mailboxes and other structures, near which political campaign posters were seen. True, only for ten hours.
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