Cámara Gesell

Cámara Gesell (2013)

Concept
The Cámara de Gessell is a conditioned space to allow anonymous people watching . The piece provides a critique from the everyday life of the “game room” child to the rigor of the “game room” scientific: a border area of observation and control spaces.

We are in an aseptic place, cold white (as in a laboratory ). Its design is child’s room; 10 crochet ‘creatures’ are strategically placed throughout the room. They have been intervened technologically with sensors, surveillance cameras, internal communication systems and alarms; and  they control the entrances, the exits and all the space.

The recording operation of the camera is activated when a person moves, meanwhile (VideoWall) screen is displayed in blue.

Project
The installation is separated into two rooms, the first one is the children room, in the second one, we found a table and chair in front of a videowall as in a surveillance office. Different levels of control and monitoring are set depending on the position of the visitors and their movement in space.

• Metáforas de la supervivencia. FASE 5. Centro Cultural Recoleta. Buenos Aires (Argentina), 2013.