WORK IN PROGRESS STOLEN IMAGES
WORK IN PROGRESS STOLEN IMAGES
In Sascha's class, my project was to wok about school dormitory through CCTV. As it is forbidden to record the CCVT monitor, Sascha asked for me in the photography's office. I started to make a video with the CCVT monitors.
I will put this video on a monitor facing a CCTV. So the audience could watch the video from different points of view, the Office monitor or in the "real" monitor. I will put some adhesive tape, on the floor around the video, to demarcate the space where the CCVT watch you watching my video.
This work came in my mind when I realize the contradiction that occurs about CCVT. Administration people pretend that CCVT are installed to protect the population - in Chug Ang University, to protect students. The records of the school life are preserved during several days and then, they had to be delete. But the fact is that, it is completely forbidden to record those images with an other camera. I would like to play with this notion of prohibition in the CCTV case.
For the law, I stole those images to make my video. But in fact, I am not the first one who stole them. With this installation, I would like to create a mise en abime of the image.