A project I did for culture night Belfast. This project is based around the act of voyeurism, "looking and being looked at".
“I want a History of Looking. For the Photograph is the advent of
myself as other: a cunning dissociation of consciousness from identity.
Even odder: it was before Photography that men had the most to say about
the vision of the double. Heautoscopy was compared with an
hallucinosis; for centuries this was a great mythic theme.”
― Roland Barthes, Camera Lucida: Reflections on Photography
Using the camera as the thing that separates viewer and looker I gave the public a chance to look at a person in the eyes, in real time, but without the social awkwardness of that person looking directly back.
Volunteers were asked to sit for 10 minutes whilst being filmed and projected on to a shop window. The results were extremely interesting, and the project even featured on the BBC Arts show.
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