10.05.2024 Loudhouse X Archives
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Ministry TV was an installation inspired by Foucault’s Panopticon: People can be controlled when they believe themselves to be under constant surveillance even if no one is watching. The eyes of god, and now the eyes of technology and all its children, are unrelenting and omnipotent. In the panopticon, we, the watched, are programmed to be the watchers. Norms emerge. Fear, conformity, and performance become our religion. ​
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The installation took place inside the safe of an old bank. Featuring a collection of clown dolls holding old digital ephemera and a staticky 90s box TV with eyes glued to the screen, watching you watching them...
Ministry TV
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Six insane clown faced dolls holding outdated technology: my favorite is my iridescent pink nokia cell phone with rainbow colored buttons - she did NUMBERS on Tumblr.
This is the door to Ministry TV! An old safe in an old bank. You have the green light to enter. Do you dare? Art work to the right of the door is by a very cool Lafayette-based artist named Boris F. Fitzgerald.
A glowing TV with static flickering and eyeballs glued to the screen. The watcher becomes the watched.
Six insane clown faced dolls holding outdated technology: my favorite is my iridescent pink nokia cell phone with rainbow colored buttons - she did NUMBERS on Tumblr.
