Surveillance Camera Players, $, 1999 Virtual Museum of Canada
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The Surveillance Camera Players use the camera itself as the medium. By stepping in front of the camera, they use the system of surveillance as a mirror within which they create their own scenes to show the public a humorous way of transmitting messages. In this image, we see people with protest signs as viewed through a television screen. One person is holding a sign that reads 'Why do people act irrationally?' with a skull and crossbones below.

Surveillance Camera Players, $, 1999

Images in the Series: The Surveillance Camera Players use the camera itself as the medium. By stepping in front of the camera, they use the system of surveillance as a mirror within which they create their own scenes to show the public a humorous way of transmitting messages. In this image, we see people with protest signs as viewed through a television screen. One person is holding a sign that reads 'Why do people act irrationally?' with a skull and crossbones below.This image is of a man with number around his neck, smoking a cigarette, as viewed through a television screen.This image is of a close-up view of a pink sign saying 'I love big brother,' viewed through a television screen.In this image, we see a close-up of a man smoking a cigarette, viewed through a television screen.This image shows someone holding a sign stating 'we are the dead,' viewed through a television screen.This image shows a man holding sign saying 'I want god to see me,' viewed through a television screen.This image shows a man holding sign saying 'fascists' with swastika viewed through a television screen.This last image in the series shows people with protest signs viewed through a television screen. With these images, the Surveillance Camera Players demand that what we see in front of cameras is always fiction, and that there is no such thing as a one-sided story.

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