The Portrait Under Surveillance
Tuesday, October 21 / 7:00 P.M.,The Santa Barbara Contemporary Arts Forum
653 Paseo Nuevo, Top Floor, Santa Barbara

This event stages an investigation of the impact of surveillance cameras through a mixed media performance/installation by juxtaposing original surveillance “portrait” paintings by Penelope Gottlieb against Laurence Rickels’s scripted/spoken word reflections on surveillance as a failed technology. Historically, images of the face have been the site of metaphor, conjecture, manipulation and deliberate ambiguity. The most highly coded “organ” of the body, the face has been seen over the ages as displaying and containing messages that can be read. But how do we “read” faces and how reliable are our readings. This collaboration between an artist and a prominent critical theorist comes face to face with faciality.

Dr. Rickels is a professor in Germanic, Slavic, and Semitic Studies, and Comparative Literature; and an adjunct professor in Art Studio, and Film Studies.

Penelope Gottlieb is an MFA candidate in Art Studio.
Tuesday, October 21 / 7:00 P.M

Presented by The IHC and The Santa Barbara Contemporary Arts Forum.

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