Our family went to some La Strada events, which is a street festival, all over the city for days, where the audience becomes the show somehow. This particular event was just down the street from us, and all it was a rotating pedestal for which there were no instructions. There was a tune playing on repeat, namely a children's rhyme, about a made-up-person named "Bi Ba Butzemann" The words are something like: A Bi Ba Butzemann dances in our house. He shakes himself and twists himself, then throws his bag over his shoulder. A Bi Ba Butzemann circles round our house."
There was a sign though that said you were on camera, From their website:
"For your security, this area is under video surveillance." Whilst, in former times, physical walls excluded unwelcome visitors and restrained them from hanging around in particular places, today other access restrictions are being brought to bear - imposed over people’s heads by the cameras possessing a power, range and field of view that most people are unable to comprehend. With a fine touch and precision, Zweintopf explore the rapidly increasing monitoring of urban public space by invisible eyes in the form of cameras. Their installation renders boundaries and lines visible once more, actively includes the audience in the otherwise invisible communication and invites the question, who is actually working behind the scenes here, who is observing, comparing, evaluating? And above all, to what end?
Oh and video takes 100 years to edit, so I am actually ahead on this, even though as far as editing goes, this is relatively minimal.
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