Edén
Edén (2015)
Concept
The installation presents a critique of the indiscriminate increase in automatic control systems and video surveillance that invade public spaces under the premise of social security.
At present, the monitoring and control systems, initially used only in the margins of the social community (prisons and borders), or in situations of armed conflict, have invaded the urban public space, reaching all our human environment and therefore also individual private areas.
Project
Today the saturation of images is excessive. The use of sound is proposed as presentation. In Barcelona subway, a locution continually reminds us “that for our safety, space has video surveillance systems”. For if there were sufficient visual input to the space or the presence of the cameras themselves at every corner posts, the locution message occurs in the subway.
It has become a mantra, that instead of providing peace and security, becomes a form of fear and fright space. Installation based on the use of sound. A counter sensor controls the number of people entering the room, and launches the “locution” with other alarm sounds for each of them. The more public there is, the more alarms and volume increases, until it becomes unbearable, and the “maximum security” expels individuals from space.
- Net.Art y Control. (retrospective) La Neomudejar. Madrid, 2017.
- Hangar. Barcelona, 2015.