R.S.I.
ed. by Nadia Ismail and Matthias Kliefoth ; essays by Katrin Kämpf and Lilian Haberer, Paul Bernard, Gesine Borcherdt …[et al.]
- Author(s)
- Katrin Kämpf and Lilian Haberer, Paul Bernard, Gesine Borcherdt, Magnus Schäfer, Mark von Schlegell, Gloria Sutton
- Editor(s)
- Nadia Ismail, Matthias Kliefoth
- Publication
- Berlin : Distanz, 2023
- Scope
- 256 Pages, illustrated, 28 cm.
- Carrier
- monograph
- ISBN
- 9789083015200
Book published on the occasion of the exhibition ‘JULIA SCHER: Maximum Security Society’ at different locations in Germany and Switzerland (2023). Since the 1980s, Julia Scher (1954) has been investigating the emergence of a “maximum security society”. Inspired by philosophers like Michel Foucault and sociologist Gary T. Marx, her oeuvre focuses on issues of surveillance and the cyberspace. Since the beginning of her career, Scher has employed a visionary variety of media to demonstrate how much technologies like video surveillance, image recognition, and automated database queries have become ubiquitous and effectively structure our reality. By mimicking common surveillance scenarios, Scher creates striking and transient web, installation, and performance works that present viewers with urgent questions about power, gender, control, and medial seduction. In this monograph, Lacan’s dictum RSI (the Real, the Symbolic, the Imaginary) is applied to Scher’s work, examining it regarding the topics Real & Fake, Surveillance & Security & SM, and Infrastructures.
- Person as subject
- Julia Scher
- Keywords
- video , critical aesthetics , installation , surveillance , gender
- Location
- Cabinet 7 - 3: Kunstenaars
- Extra themes
- Surveillance, Security, Fear
- Remarks
- Includes notes
