Ich finde wir sollten uns viel mehr mit der Videoüberwachung der öffentlichen Räume unserer Städte auseinandersetzten. Die Installation „CCTV/Creative Control“ von Architekt und Künstler Marcos Zotes tut das. Realisiert wurde sie im Rahmen der Nuit Blanche: Bring to Light New York 2011 in Greenpoint, Brooklyn/New York.
„CCTV/Creative Control seeks to question the oppressive mechanisms and discourses implemented in the city through the temporary appropriation of public space. The intervention consists of a video projection displaying an over-sized eye onto the lower surface of the 10-storey-hight Milton Street water tower in Brooklyn, New York. Still the highest point in the area, until it is dwarfed by new gentrification plans, the water tower exists as a relic of the neighbourhood’s industrial past. The intervention temporarily transforms this iconic landmark into a discernible CCTV tower, raising questions of private control over public space in the urban context. By intervening in the everyday order of contemporary urban life, CCTV/Creative Control aims at both producing moments of antagonism –however transitory, fragmentary or ephemeral– and finding new ways to practice the city, not simply as consumers but as creators.“
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via: Mail, thanks to New York!
Photo: Marcos Zotes
