Title (Dublin Core)

Surveillance Bed III

Description (Dublin Core)

Since the early eighties, Julia Scher has been focusing on questions of personal identity within the context of power, such as surveillance and control. In the modified Surveillance Bed shown here, her interest in voyeurism and exhibitionism, characteristic of her work, is particularly evident. In this sense, the work manifests one of the most personal aspects of her wide-ranging work.
She once formulated her underlying interest as follows: "Power and its abuse is my most important subject matter, how power is misused to harm people".
The bed consists of four cameras and video monitors, each attached to a bedpost. The cameras record the events pictured on the bed. At random, the live video images are intermixed with pre-recorded video images on the video monitors. Thus the bed not only represents an image as an installation, but also depicts images of the activities that have taken place on it over time.

Creator (Dublin Core)

Julia Scher

Date (Dublin Core)

1994

Type (Dublin Core)

installation

Medium (Dublin Core)

multi-channel video installations

bedstead, steel, wood, foam, 4 monitors, 4 cameras, 1 infrared-camera, 2 computer video switchers, 2 video players, 1 video recorder, 1 microphone, 1 amplifier, 2 speakers, 1 ARRI light (with red filter), cable, bedsheet, blanket

Source (Dublin Core)

Esther Schipper Gallery: description

Extent (Dublin Core)

180 x 240 x 180 centimeters

Is Part Of (Dublin Core)

Surveillance Beds