During the Create Festival the Helvetic Centre organised an event entitled Protocol #1, where Adnan Hadzi presented Deptford.TV’s ‘souveillance’ series.
PROTOCOL aims to explore some shifts of the visual regime through a series of exhibitions and talks dedicated to photography. Each event will show the work of emerging talents from the United Kingdom and Switzerland. Following a recurrent procedure, the goal is to offer a laboratory that facilitates exchanges between different fields and audiences. For this PROTOCOL #1 session we chose to work around the notion of Participant Observation; the works of Yann Gross and Bronwen Parker-Rhodes trace the nexus between photographic aesthetics and ethnographic investigation.
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Talk series: “Sousveillance”
Guest speaker: Adnan Hadzi (Deptford.tv)
Saturday 16 July, 8pm
Adnan Hadzi’s talk will focus on the nature of CCTV images through the notion of sousveillance, that is to say the recording of an activity from the perspective of a participant in the activity. By making visible CCTV images which normally remain hidden, sousveillance is a “surveillance from above” that provide documents to create subjectives narratives of the city. PROTOCOL #1 takes place within CREATE, a unique cultural festival that’s all about taking part.