A Cure for Surveillance addresses the human body through the use of digital media, and is designed both to utilize and critique contemporary technologies of surveillance in our society. With this in mind, the artists use motion capture technology to pre-record an archive of movement phrases, to be displayed in the installation as a way of heightening interactivity with pedestrians in the public space of Dance Theater Workshop. Through a number of live cameras installed in the gallery space, the images of these pedestrians will be recorded upon entrance into Dance Theater Workshop, and will be projected onto the inner wall and outer window of the facilities, creating a spatial dichotomy between “in” and “out”. The interplay between inner and outer space, and public and private space is examined in this installation.
"Should you happen to wander into Dance Theater Workshop's gallery space this month, be prepared to be confronted with your own likeness, or some version of it. In "A CURE FOR SURVEILLANCE," Jonah Bokaer and Liubo Borissov have used motion-capture technology to record images of the dancers Michelle Mola and Douglas Letheren. This archive of movements will be intertwined with live images of people entering the gallery; that means you, boys and girls. "Surveillance" inaugurates the workshop's Gallery Installation Fellowship program, so expect more experiments in the coming months."
-- Claudia La Rocco, New York Times
A Cure for Surveillance (2007)
Jonah Bokaer & Liubo Borissov