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CURATOR AND THE PANOPTICON, AS WELL - Artstation

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În 2002, Peter Weibel organiza la ZKM Karlsruhe<br />

împreună cu Thomas Y. Levin şi Ursula Frohne expoziţia<br />

reper CTRL [SPACE] Rhetorics of Surveillance from Bentham<br />

to Big Brother. Analizând principiul panoptic din<br />

perspectivă lacaniană, el afirma atunci că sub masca<br />

ritualurilor de control şi a excedentului de vizibilitate<br />

securitară se desfăşoară complexe mecanisme libidinale.<br />

Şi dacă ar putea fi imaginată o opoziţie veritabilă<br />

şi fiabilă, aceasta nu poate să existe decât prin confruntarea<br />

privirilor, „observând observatorul, supraveghind<br />

supraveghetorul, monitorizându-l pe cel care<br />

monitorizează.”<br />

Imaginea „Polizei lügt” [Poliţia minte] face parte din seria<br />

„Anschläge” [Atentate] şi documentează un performance<br />

din 1971. Ea este exemplară pentru acest domeniu<br />

al confruntării privirilor, atât de testat de Weibel în<br />

mediul acţionist vienez de după 1968, în care confruntarea<br />

se lega în mod intim şi necesar de gestul exhibat<br />

şi provocator.<br />

Mica Gherghescu<br />

Together with Thomas Y. Levin and Ursula Frohne,<br />

Peter Weibel organized in 2002 at ZKM Karlsruhe the<br />

seminal exhibition CTRL [SPACE] Rhetorics of Surveillance<br />

from Bentham to Big Brother. Highly inspired by<br />

Lacan’s psychoanalysis, he revealed in his analysis of<br />

the Panoptic principle that under the mask of control<br />

rituals and exceeding security visibility underlies a<br />

complex libidinal mechanism. And if one can imagine<br />

a real viable opposition, this cannot operate but by<br />

confronting the gaze. “Observing the observer, supervising<br />

the supervisor, monitoring the monitor.”<br />

“Polizei lügt” [Police lies], a 1971 performance that<br />

Weibel inserted in his “Anschläge” [Attacks] series, is<br />

exemplary for this confrontation of the gaze, that Weibel<br />

had already tested in the Viennese actionist milieu<br />

after 1968, when confrontation was intimately linked<br />

with the provocative, exhibited gesture.<br />

Mica Gherghescu<br />

“Polizei lÜgt”, from the “Anschläge” series (1970/1971)<br />

C-type print, variable dimensions<br />

courtesy of the artist<br />

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