SIDE PROGRAMME: A. Deutinger & A. Gottfarb: While no one is Watching

durational performances & temporary sculptures in public space

10-13 May / various locations

What effects does an increasingly militarized police presence in public space have on the subjective feeling of security among citizens?

In their performative-installative durational work WHILE NO ONE IS WATCHING, Alex Deutinger & Alexander Gottfarb raise questions about security, vulnerability and the protection of basic rights in public space.

The performance consists of two fully geared riot policemen performing daily patrols and routines of surveillance and within a larger defined inner city perimeter, with a variety of spontaneous interventions and direct interactions with passersby.

For four days and nights, the artists live and work as part of the “Department for artificial security” in their temporary headquarter/operation center, a sculpture halfway between a watchtower and a cage.

Concept and Performance: Alex Deutinger and Alexander Gottfarb

A coproduction of Kunstverein Archipelago, Performanceinitiative 22 and La Strada Graz

Production & Touring: mollusca productions

With the kind support of the EU Network IN SITU, the City of Viennas Department of Cultural Affairs, Culture division of the City of Graz, Kulturland Steiermark, the Arts and Culture division of the Austrian Federal Chancellery