NEOCONFESSIONAL is a participatory installation and web site. The work was devised for an artist residency at the 2008 Electrofringe electronic art festival in Newcastle, Australia. The work takes a peak at conservatism and the widespread cultural practice of resisting change.
The installation was in the toilets of the Festival Club, one of the festival venues. Posters were placed on the toilet walls encouraging people to 'out their inner conservative'. A video was also projected over the urinal in the men's and shown on a television in the women's - it was a mashup of YouTube videos and my own footage. The work not only explores conservatism, but is a comment on online 'confession' culture, enabled by sites such as YouTube. |