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Vidéo surveillance
Sur-prise du visible
Curated by Laurent Carlier
An exhibition organised and co-produced with Les Réseaux de la Création.
from 22 October 2021 to 9 January 2022.
Exhibiting artists: ACHAB, Antoine Mermet, Ceren Paydas, Christof Nüssli, Cynthia Charpentreau, Danielle Baskin, Pierre Cassou-Noguès / Stéphane Degoutin / Gwenola Wagon, Kurt Caviezel, Autodrône (Leïla Chaix), Liad Hussein Kantorowicz, Loopsider, La Quadrature du Net, Oxytocine (Julia Maura), Shinseungback Kimyonghun, Thaddé Comar, Franck Vigroux & Gregory Robin.
Free admission
Opening Hours
Wednesday to Friday: 1.30-6.30 pm
Saturday and Sunday: 1.30-7 pm
Thursday 21 October 2021:
- Part one: Vernissage at the Lavoir Numérique at 6 pm.
- Part two: Amesys vs. Habiter le bruit, an audio-visual concert with Somaticae & Laurent Carlier and M Δ G N Δ, an audio-visual concert and dance performance with Annabelle Playe, Marcela Santander Corvalan & Nadia Ratsimandresy at the Générateur, 16 rue Charles Frérot, 94250 Gentilly at 8.30 pm.
More information to come.
Thursday 2 December at 7 pm
Guided tour: click here to reserve
Ever since the panopticon was designed at the end of the 18th century, surveillance has become more and more widespread, making its way into everyday life much in the same way as electricity, photography and globalisation.
Video surveillance saw the light of day during the Third Reich, starting out as a system for observing and controlling the launching of missiles from a safe distance. In addition to this military application, video surveillance went on to be marketed for other uses in the USA.
Like the colonising, logocentric eye of identity-oriented policies driven by a desire to collect and commodify data, video surveillance also serves a capitalist conception of the body as seen through the prism of its capacity to work.
Mass surveillance leads to a war on dissent, non-conformist ideas and non-profitable lifestyles. Moreover, accepting that filming the body and transforming it into a profile is permissible implies submission to ideological and technological determinism.
And therein lies the crux of the ethical and artistic questions that arise from the relationship between control and trust, identity and otherness, innovating and updating and between power and authority.
But certain practices can take video surveillance by surprise!
In fact, some of them - and not necessarily artistic practices - escape from this system of control and compliance with the narrative of the powers that be.
This exhibition presents a selection of practices that postulate ways out of the regime and new narratives.
Antoine Mermet, On vous voit venir
© Antoine Mermet
© Antoine Mermet, On vous voit venir
© Antoine Mermet
Franck Vigroux et Gregory Robin, image extraite du clip Centaure
© Franck Vigroux et Gregory Robin, image extraite du clip Centaure
Thaddé Comar, It’s raining
© Thaddé Comar
© Thaddé Comar, It’s raining
© Thaddé Comar
Birds series, 2000-2020
© Kurt Caviezel
Trying to identify faces in the clouds, preventing technocrats from regulating our cities and our lives by using the plan, the machine and new technologies of social control, keeping an eye out for the meteorites that tear through the sky, making up stories about the lives of people in a world where dreams of automation have been pushed to the limit, questioning the notion of desire that lies behind video surveillance and the relationship of power between the watcher and the person under surveillance, taking into account the impact of video surveillance systems on perceptions and non-human lives, studying the tactics of becoming anonymous, untraceable and invisible, as well as the use of encryption as a means of resisting political and technological dictatorships, becoming a chameleon by exaggerating the contradiction between wearing a mask and facial recognition, facing up to the cynicism of morbid technological solutionism by making the world and society more meaningful, plucking the leaves off columbines as you count the days left before you leave school for good, laughing out loud at a compilation of CCTV images of robberies regularly interrupted by advertising slogans, embarking on a musical and poetic interlude dealing with the surveillance of mass surveillance and the role therein played by Panoptech.
This group exhibition brings together photos, films and installations, and presents a variety of points of view and reinterpretations, forms of expression and dissonances that are a reaction to video surveillance systems.
Laurent Carlier
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Exposition organisée et co-produite avec les Réseaux de la création.
Programmation dans le cadre de NEMO - Biennale Internationale des arts numériques de la Région Île-de-France, produite par le CENTQUATRE-PARIS.