The Insecurities Project
Sunday, 01 August, 2004
I don't know why I find this fascinating but I do:
In airports around the world security personnel are now asking many travellers to take a photo to prove their camera is not a bomb. Canadian visual artist Isabelle Devos is collecting these photographs for an international art project. While there have been many changes in our sense of security, this one may be the only one that is being documented; a record being produced by travellers on their journey.
Devos wants to know what people choose to take a photo of under these circumstances. With only seconds to consider, is it the security personnel, a friend, their luggage, the floor or something else that they choose to take a snapshot of? From these collected photos she'll develop an art piece that will address the cultural and social patterns within the images, giving a record of one seemingly insignificant detail in our ever changing world.
Current:
Bible: Isaiah (ESV) 28/09/2010
seen: Tropic Thunder 26/09/2010
seen: The Life of Mammals 24/09/2010
seen: What a Girl Wants 19/09/2010
seen: Jerry Maguire 19/09/2010
seen: The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants 06/09/2010
seen: Tomorrow Never Dies 05/09/2010
seen: Nanny McPhee 28/08/2010
read: Mercury (Hope Larson) 27/08/2010
read: Spellcheckers Vol 1 (Jamie S Rich, Nicolas Hitori de, Joelle Jones) 16/08/2010
read: Solipsistic Pop Vol 2 (Solipsistic Pop) 16/08/2010
read: Chiggers (Hope Larson) 15/08/2010
seen: Josie and the Pussycats 14/08/2010
seen: Mr & Mrs Smith 14/08/2010
seen: Step Up 2 13/08/2010
Blinks:
How to recalibrate the home button on your iPhone.
Unsolicited manuscripts accepted by Pan Macmillan with certain conditions.
Thought Balloon is a group blog in which the writers tackle a new theme every week? month? with one-page scripts. This URL is for their Phonogram ones.
How to sew a zipper on a knitted garment.
Issues organised by tale.
Online magazine that publishes fairy tales that are not reworkings of old tales.
Journal that publishes fairy tale writing.
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I would be interested because the photos will all be taken in airports, which are essentially identical, and yet because different people will take their pictures in slightly different ways, they will be entirely individual. So it will be like individuality revealed in a (non)anonymous space.
If that makes any sense…
What if… when they are all put together (a giant photomosaic) they form a mysterious and unexpected picture.
Am reminded of an X-files episode.
Love it! Sounds great! Although if it really were a bomb and not a camera, wouldn’t it go off if someone asked you to take a picture?