A Set of Suspicions
Jocelyn Robert, Daniel Jolliffe, Shelley Guhle, Josh Schafer, Teri Snelgrove, Susan Stewart, Janice Kerbel, Warren Arcand
2001
A Set of Suspicions documents a series of three exhibitions over the Fall 2000 season by artists investigating ideas of threat, security, and surveillance: La Salle des Noeuds (pedestrian movements) by Jocelyn Robert and Daniel Jolliffe, September 9 to October 14, 2000; Suspects (Performance for the Police) by Warren Arcand, Shelley Guhle and Josh Schafer, Teri Snelgrove, and Susan Stewart, October 21 to November 25, 2000; and Bank Job by Janice Kerbel, December 9, 2000 to January 27, 2001. The works used the gallery space to index specific off-locations: the proposed street cameras just beyond our doors; the hyper-watched financial district of London, England; a university biotech lab; and the mobile ‘watching machines’ that orbit the earth. A Set of Suspicions integrates visual art, writing, video, performance, electronics design, and music composition to consider the proliferation of technology, privacy and public identities, as well as cultural habits of interpretation. Designed by Judith Steedman, A Set of Suspicions includes photographic documentation of the three exhibitions, writing by Lorna Brown, Randy Lee Cutler, Denis Gautier, and Kathleen Ritter. An artist’s project, Improper Perspectives, by Allyson Clay was produced for A Set of Suspicions.
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