A TURNING POINT

| M PAVILION EVENT PROPOSAL | MELBOURNE, AUSTRALIA |

As an extension to OMA's MPavilion, A Turning Point installation asks visitors to become caretakers of Melbourne. As the theater seating pivots toward the city, our installation reciprocates and surveillance videos from Melbourne's public spaces and parks are projected onto several sheets of fabric -- each pixel is a live stream of a heart in motion. This thought can be seen as an extension of the City of Melbourne’s Safe City Cameras Program (SCCP). The event is Melbourne in Motion. Our times calls for civic participation, observation, and confrontation. We start now. 

surveillance

The intent is not to promote or celebrate the act of spying, nor it to promote a constant anxiety of fear. To the contrary, the repertoire  is of a new reality of the 21st century. A few guards of the past are now being replaced by an entire community of citizens ready to engage the challenges of a diverse, multi cultural city. The caretakers tweet their observation to #ATurningPoint. A new paradigm, maybe a new prodigy of security in a democracy, one in which we learn to accept and celebrate surveillance as an act for the people, to the people, and by the people.

the pivot

The installation consists of two frames, one of which is stationary and the one that pivots (the screen). The footage from surveillance cameras around Melbourne would be projected onto the layers of the screens. As the seats of MPavilion pivots, so does the screen --turning the focus from the interior of MPavilion to the larger Melbourne.