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RED LINE SURVEILLANCE
As part of: FESTIVAL OF EXTREME BUILDING and NEW GENERATION ARTS 
FESTIVAL 





23rd June – 29th June 2007
Birmingham / UK
On Site (The corner of The Priory Queensway and Moor Street Queensway)

Red Line Surveillance are out to provide security for the city of 
Birmingham; from a surveillance tower erected on site, mobile 
monitoring units will emanate through the surrounding urban 
environment. This project is a collaboration between nine European 
artists, and has been developed in partnership with the Festival of 
Extreme Building and New Generation Arts.

Surveillance literally means "watching over", and can be seen as the 
art of watching over the activities of a person or group from a 
position of higher authority. Commonly used to describe observation 
from a distance by means of electronic equipment, it can also involve 
simple, relatively no- or low-tech methods such as direct observation, 
observation with binoculars or similar methods.

The surveillance tower will be a monitoring station occupied by 
personnel 24 hours a day, providing 'security and surveillance' for the 
site; this presence will be clearly visible through signage, uniformed 
officers and increasing levels of activity emerging from the tower. 
These roving patrols will expand from the base into the wider landscape 
of the city centre, with each reconnaissance mission seeking to find 
the effective range of this security service and its impact on its 
surroundings. The collective observation of the city will ensure that 
no event goes un-noticed!

This process will involve: 
Ana Benlloch [UK], Pelle Brage [DK], Sabine Hagmann [CH], Andreas 
Kebelmann [GER], MACHFELD (aka Michael Mastrototaro & Sabine Maier) 
[A], Ed Orton [UK], Niki Russell [UK], Eliane Rutishause [CH], and 
Stuart Tait [UK].

Projectsite:
http://redlinegroup.eu/



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