STAGE TWO

(recently concluded during the 4th Festival of science and SUTRA segment - Gallery of the National Bank of Serbia:

http://www.festivalnauke.org/sutra/works/002.html; December 3, 4 and 5, 2010): Checkpoint equipped with X-ray contraband scanner was placed on the gallery entrance. Gallery visitors had opportunity to become subjects of security screening. Images generated this way with visitors’ consent were immediately printed and displayed in the space. Visitors had the option to remove their prints and take them home upon leaving the gallery. Visitors’ experience of anxiety and passivity of victimized object of observation, is transformed into uniquely creative activity, voyeuristic feast for the eyes on the gallery walls. 

STAGE ONE

(recently concluded - Atelier Dado: http://www.mnmuseum.org/Dado_E.htm and O3ONE: http://www.o3one.rs/eng/?p=900): Live video stream from the X-ray baggage scanners from the international airport was streamed to the gallery space for the exhibition reception. For one day and for 30 minutes only visitors in the galleries (several galleries were involved as well as online viewers) were able to peek into the privacy of random passengers, without knowing anything about their true identity. Rather, they have had the opportunity to imagine persons and personalities based solely on their luggage content. On the remaining gallery walls selected images of the passengers’ belongings were executed as digital prints on polycarbonate 3D Illusion film. Gallery floor had crowd control barriers deployed in attempt to control crowd flow and to restrict and direct their movement.

STAGE THREE

(currently in planning): Similarly to the stage two, gallery entrance will be equipped with the body scanner (nowadays installed on mayor airports). Images of visitors’ bodies will be at core of this interactive exhibition.