Truls Lie:
Desire for surveillance

In New York lives the Norwegian artist Vibeke Jensen, who currently shows her installation Closed Circuit in Trondheim Kunstmuseum. Her videos criticize the surveillance and control the city's marginal people are exposed to. A panoptic society that creates a constant discomfort among us, as we never know where and when we are surveyed - eavesdropped, videotaped on the street, in the bank or observed from satellites. With her secluded camera, Jensen has filmed street arrests, pimps, prostitutes, fights, the mentally ill and beggers. In Trondheim you will be video taped in her Control Room, where you become mixed in with oddities from New York. You become aware of the omnipresent surveillance. Professional conspirators who spy on each other without knowing why. But who is observing whom, and seemingly on whose behalf?