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.
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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?