Credit: CCTV 10, Gary Duehr
DATE & TIME:
Friday, July 10; 7:30 pm – 9:30 pm
LOCATION:
Nave Gallery Annex, 53 Chester St, Somerville, MA
WHAT’S HAPPENING:
“Visibility is a trap.” — Michel Foucault
In 1937, in Britain, a poet, an anthropologist and a filmmaker, founded Mass-Observation society, a network of volunteer diarists who would to write in their observations–the inner and outer contents of their quotidian life–so as to create “weather-maps of public feeling.”
These days we take to social media platforms to record observations– inner and outer contents of our lives–leaving behind debris of “weather-maps of personal feeling.” Except now technology is mediating the sharing. And the layers of sharing are becoming increasingly complicated. As the private and the public sphere overlap and blur, we are left uncertain about the limits of free will and individual agency.
Inspired by the Mass-Observation method, we decided to conduct our own experiment. If you would like to participate please take our Privacy Questionnaire.
Then join our Privacy Salon for an immersive conversation attempting to locate and find ways to redraw our personal boundaries. It will be facilitated by artists from the show, techies, and local poets who recently published an anthology of surveillance poetics titled Privacy Policy.
