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.

Excerpt from Dan McKinlay's RealTime review:
"I’m prepared to bet that by most plausible measures the technical sophistication of technology on display has decreased over time. The exception might be the online works—my favourite example of this is Pip Shea’s amusing interactive Neoconfessional, a hybrid online/video installation piece. Online, a standard social video sharing network collects uploaded footage of TINA’s compulsively boundary-testing punters admitting their trespasses into conservatism; offline, projectors and speakers in the performance venues toilets show those video clips and the stalls echo with a novel variety of public obscenity: “I don’t even like new media art.” In general, though, the shows this year have tended towards the technologically simple, and steered away from competing with the staunchly funded technological extravaganzas of your ISEAs and Biennales. Most of the successful works cluster around the ideas of the collaborative, the interactive, the site specific, and the low-budget."