Vigilante Performance
Document Type
Original Creative Work
Publication Date
2007
Faculty
Faculty of Education and Arts
School
Western Australian Academy of Performing Arts (WAAPA)
Abstract
The critical review discusses contemporary issues of community policing, neighbourhood watch and a political culture of surveillance surrounding the PVI Collective’s performance art project Inform and its play on a form of cultural ambivalence between the pleasures of voyeurism and surveillance. It identifies the critical contemporary question concerning the political predominance of a national surveillance culture and its fragile balance between social dysfunction and responsible communal behaviour, and the potential for performance art to successfully negotiate and uncover these cultural problems.