SURVEILLANCE / ÜBERWACHUNG   III
VIDEO INSTALLATION

by ROBERT ADRIAN with HELMUT MARK
for the exhibition "1984 - Orwell und die Gegenwart",
Muesum des 20. Jahrhunderts, Vienna 1984.

The installation consists of 2 synchronised video players and 2 monitors. The tapes are 2 versions of a journey through Vienna, one recorded through the windscreen of a van (left image), the other recorded by a camera located in the traffic surveillance centre of the Vienna police (right image).

The recordings were made simultaneously. Ilse Gassinger was in the control centre with a policeman who switched the monitors to follow the van through the city. Helmut Mark was in the van (driven by Zelko Wiener) with a camera pointed out the window.

The production and installation was coordinated by Helmut Mark.

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