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[bio] Surveillance Camera Players

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Author:   Christoph Pingel  
Posted: 05.10.2001; 18:55:25
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Surveillance Camera Players

Die Gruppe der Surveillance Camera Players [SCP] wurde von Bill Brown, Susan Hull und verschiedenen anderen vom Situationismus inspirierten AktivistInnen in New York [USA] im November 1996 ins Leben gerufen. Seitdem hat die anarchistische Gruppe mehr als 40 Performances direkt vor Überwachungskameras gegeben. Diese fanden meist in New York City statt, aber auch in verschiedenen anderen Städten. Weiters gibt es von den Surveillance Camera Players auch Filialen in Tempe, Arizona bzw. San Francisco [USA], Bologna [I], Stockholm [S] und in Litauen [LT].

Performances | Bibliography | Recommended Links

Performances
[selected]

2001
11. Oktober 2001
»Times Square "webcam," Manhattan«, 7. September
»Italian Consulate, Manhattan«, 23. Juli
»Times Square "webcam" Manhattan«, 20 April

2000
»Gare de Lyon, Paris«, 14. Dezember
»St. Patrick's Cathedral«, 3. Dezember
»Times Square "webcam", Manhattan«, 16. August
»Times Square "webcam", Manhattan«, 24. Mai
»Times Square "webcam", Manhattan«, 1. Mai
»Washington Square Park«, 1. April

1999
»Fifth Avenue and 45th Street "webcam," Manhattan«, 30. November
»Peekskill, New York«, 23. Oktober
»Astor Place subway station«, 24. September
»Seventh Ave and 14th Street subway station«, 22. September
»14th Street and Seventh Avenue subway station, Manhattan«, 15. September
»York Street subway station, Brooklyn«, 25. August
»Liberty Plaza, Manhattan«, 18. Juni
»Washington Square Park«, 15. April

1998
»14th Street/Seventh Avenue subway station«, 9. November
»Astor Place subway station«, 28. Juli 1998

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Bibliography
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Süddeutsche Zeitung, 1.9.2001; San Francisco Chronicle, 30.8.2001; Wired News, 3.3.2001; Aufbau: Die Deutsch-Jüdische Zeitung, 1.3.2001; 3 D Magazine, Januar 2001; The New York Post, 30.4.2000; Stern, 29.11.1999; Associated Press, 27.9.1999; David Kirby, »Artists' Revenge for Surveillance (http://www.notbored.org/scp-nyt.html )«, in The New York Times, 17.1.1999; Time Out New York, August 1998.

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Recommended Links

-> Homepage

-> Detailed description of aims and actions

-> Linklist of articles about SCP

-> History, philosophy and aims of SCP

-> »Nothing has changed. Therefore everything must change«

->Julie Turley, »Theater of Cruelty«, in Capture Magazine

-> »Corporate and Police Surveillance. Orwellian Fiction or 21st Century Reality?«, in: Democracy Now!

->Alex Burns, »surveillance camera players«, in Disinformation, 17.1.2001

->Megan Rowling, »Camera theatre group point things out«, in Maomagazine, 17.7.2001, (teil3)

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