Control/Security
LUFF sets itself each year the objective of supporting the national artistic scene by means of a creative competition.
Creative competition 2010, winning project
By Ricardo da Silva and Manuel Sigrist
After the performative approach in 2008, followed by sound exploration used in 2009, the 2010 creation is essentially articulated around the image, tackled this year through the concept of surveillance, and more precisely of video surveillance.
The winning project is an installation by Ricardo da Silva and Manuel Sigrist, which examines the increasing use of video surveillance, where urban space is compromised, the raw is transformed into a stream of digital information and the clandestine made public. The installation takes over this logic of controlling to divert, corrupt and pervert it, be it only throughout the festival. The creation of such zones of temporary interferences becomes a way to damage the hyperreality of the systems of safe signs by polluting the signals (information overload), by introducing noises into the circuit and by individually and collectively inventing games of subversion.
Ricardo da Silva and Manuel Sigrist are video directors and self-taught performers engaged in the domains of experimental cinema and new media. They have numerous productions, video and multimedia installations, visual and sound and live performance to their credit. They have been in fruitful collaboration since 2005 as part of the Thomas More Project collective.
With the generous support of: The City of Lausanne and the State of Vaud