Only the envelope
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Output Type
Original Creative Work
Publisher
Bunbury Regional Art Galleries
Place of Publication
Bunbury, Western Australia
School
School of Arts and Humanities / Centre for Research in Entertainment, Arts, Technology, Education and Communications
RAS ID
23834
Funders
Edith Cowan University eResearch Technology Funding Scheme
School of Arts and Humanities Small Research Grant
Description
A live art installation that investigates the ways we share personal information in the public sphere. A ‘scientist’ offered visitors the opportunity to be involved in an ‘experiment’ by viewing an original video while wearing an eye-tracking device. The work offers a recursively playful performance of faith in ‘science’ that troubles a distinction between the apparently private experience of viewing art with the apparently public experience of being surveilled, exploring the notion that negotiating ‘informed consent’ is associated with loss of power and knowledge.
Additional Information
Performed at the Archive Room, Bunbury Regional Art Galleries [BRAG], Bunbury, Western Australia from 2 - 28 March 2016.
Re-enactment video recorded 2018.
Creative Commons License
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial 4.0 License
Comments
Originally performed as:
McKenzie, Vahri (2016). Only the Envelope [live art installation]. Bunbury Regional Art Galleries: Bunbury, WA.
Re-enactment video:
McKenzie, Vahri (2018). Only the Envelope [re-enactment video]. Retrieved from https://vimeo.com/263282096.