by robococo [alias Petra Gemeinboeck & Rob Saunders]
The installation was first shown at the Schauraum Angewandte at the MuseumsQuartier 21, Vienna, in June 2010.
Ideally, the existing, familiar architecture is mimicked to house the machinery. In our first show, the gallery space was bound by glass walls and required us to not only stage the intervention but also the environment to be intervened. The transparent gallery space was turned inside out and transformed into a private, cosy, living room scene oriented towards the public space outside the gallery. The surveillance machinery attached to the back of the temporary walls transformed the living room scene into a capricious, suspicious voyeur.
