Proposal for Site Unseen - unreal-estates.com (Browning/Barbier)

Chicago Cultural Center, November 15, 2006

Rise/Run

This two channel work projected on the main staircase (3^rd – 4^th floors) uses two image sources to suggest the multiple ways in which we are openly and secretly surveilled in these fear-infused times. Projected on the top surfaces of the stairs, the run, are card catalog entries from the Chicago Public Library of books considered suspicious, highlighting their status (checked out or on shelf). On the rise or vertical surface of the stairs is a live surveillance camera mounted in the Randolph Street lobby of the Cultural Center.

The work will require a computer displaying book entries for the overhead projection, a wireless surveillance camera system for the front image source, and two projectors, all supplied by the artists. There will be no sound.

The work can be viewed from the stairs themselves, the 4^th floor balcony above, and the 3rd floor.

The following movie and images simulate the installation setup:

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3rd floor view of combined front and down projection

Left side view

Landing view of combine projections

Overhead view from 4^th floor

Cantilevered 4^th floor projector

Side view of cantilevered projection boom

Cart detail – counter weighted with 50 lbs. Projector weighs less than 5lb.

Cart corner construction detail

Cart corner construction detail

4^th floor projector close-up

Projector mount detail #1

Projection mount detail #2

Simulated staircase with projected images