| a safeway Installation in Budgen’s Supermarket, Anglia Square, Norwich, England European Legs, Outpost, Norwich General Public, Berlin September 2007 |
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At a Budgen’s supermarket, I rearranged the shelves and shop displays so that visitors could go undetected by its surveillance cameras. The shelving units mapped the trajectories and intersections of the cameras. Visitors could walk freely from the entrance, and with curiosity, back to the security room hidden behind a 2-way mirror. A security personnel observed the monitors, which revealed 6 banal shopping aisles with no shoppers.
The supermarket had closed 2-years prior. When I re-opened its doors nearly all of its original displays, freezers, security systems, and surveillance tapes were still available and functioning. The store's blueprints and last 3 days of surveillance tapes were the starting point. No one had visited the space while it was closed. After the 3-week exhibition, at least on video tape, that remained the same.
Many thanks to Saim Demircan & Outpost's Simon Liddiment, Loz, Dav, Berry, Tim and JJ.
