On Monday May 17th, 1993 at 1pm in Newcastle upon Tyne city centre a synchronised walk took place in two separate locations by Pat Naldi and Wendy Kirkup.
This event was recorded on the 16 camera surveillance system recently installed throughout the commercial centre of the city by Northumbria Police (Newcastle upon Tyne was the first city centre in the UK to install a Closed Circuit Television network). The system’s radial vision was capable of recording 16 separate views of the city in any one second.
The subsequent footage was edited into 20 ten-second sequences which were transmitted during commercial breaks on Tyne Tees Television between June 21 and July 4 as part of the 2nd Tyne International 1993.
Made in collaboration with Pat Naldi.
Search (Newcastle 1993) was commissioned by Locus+ and Tyne International for the exhibition Time and Tide, The Tyne International Exhibition of Contemporary Art, curated by Corinne Diserens.
Search (Newcastle) has subsequently been screened many times internationally in exhibitions and film festivals. Essay by Helen Cadwallader written for the Exhibition ‘Ctrl Space: Rhetorics of Surveillance from Bentham to Big Brother, held at ZKM Karlsruhe, 2002.
Search (Adelaide)
SEARCH (Adelaide 1996) was commissioned by the Telstra International Adelaide Festival ‘96 & The Experimental Art Foundation, Australia. Curated by Richard Grayson.
Essay by Richard Grayson.
On Wednesday February 14th 1996 at 1.43pm in the city of Adelaide, a synchronised walk took place in two separate locations by Pat Naldi and Wendy Kirkup.
This event was recorded on the 15-camera surveillance system recently installed along Hindley Street and Rundle Mall in the city centre of Adelaide by the City of Adelaide Corporation.
The system recorded 15 separate views of these two streets in any one second, 24 hours a day. The subsequent footage was edited into fifteen ten second sequences which were transmitted on Channel 7, Australia, on Festival Television, between 17th February and 9th March 1996 as part of the Telstra International Adelaide Festival.
Made in collaboration with Pat Naldi.
Wendy Kirkup 