Evidence Locker
” She wrote her access forms as love letters, and with a microphone in her ear, persuaded the men running Liverpool’s surveillance systems to guide her, blind, through the city.
“My body became part of the system,” she says. “It was the most intimate experience of my life.” “
Why artist Jill Magid loves an authority figure, Eve Wiseman, The Observer, Sunday 27th September 2009.
Evidence Locker is a work from 2004 for Liverpool biennial
“The artist spent 31 days in Liverpool – the length of time for which CCTV footage is stored by the police before being erased, unless it is requested as evidence of a crime. Throughout this time she was filmed by the CCTV system.”
The final work consists of two contrasting installations. Evidence Locker at Tate evokes the space of the CCTV monitoring station, and includes a soundtrack of the police log being read aloud, and CCTV footage featuring the artist obtained from the authorities. Retrieval Room at FACT reveals the evolving romance of the relationship with the CCTV staff through a daily diary and dream-like video projections.
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