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Image from buttonhole camera, archival material from the Stasi Records Agency ref: MfS-BV-Suhl-Abt-VIII-Fo-3192-
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Minox Part 2: The Houses of Parliament, London (2016)
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1. Opening ceremony of the Ernst-Thälmann-Park residential estate attended by Mikhail Gorbachev during his 1986 state visit, Berlin (2019)
Talk
Artist's Talk - Rose Butler
14 Nov 2019
Regular hours
- Thu, 14 Nov
- 18:00 – 20:00
Address
- 19 Mann Island
- Liverpool Waterfront
- Liverpool
- L31BP
- United Kingdom
Travel Information
- The nearest bus station is at Liverpool ONE, but some buses drop off at the Pier Head, right next door to the gallery. Merseytravel has details of local bus services.
- By train We are 20 minutes walk from Lime Street station ' Liverpool's mainline railway station. James Street station, served by Wirral Line trains, is a two minute walk. Moorfields station, served by the Northern and Wirral Lines, is a five minute w
Rose is an artist, researcher and senior lecturer of Fine Art using adapted technology and custom built software alongside early cameras and analogue technique to make interactive installations, single and multi-screen videos or large-scale photographs.
About
Rose is an artist, researcher and senior lecturer of Fine Art using adapted technology and custom built software alongside early cameras and analogue technique to make interactive installations, single and multi-screen videos or large-scale photographs.
To make work, Rose's process involves getting access to a restricted area (Parliament, archives, border sites, courts), to have a look, to document and to amass material to work with.
Rose’s current exhibition at Decad, Berlin (Oct 2019 – Jan 2020) brings together a body of work developed as part of doctoral study. For eight months she followed the Investigatory Powers Bill (aka The Snooper’s Charter) on its passage through the Houses of Parliament. During this observation she used analogue devices; a Minox Cold War spy camera and a 1980s Dictaphone to document Parliament in areas where recording is not permitted. Alongside this observation Rose selected historical surveillance material from the Stasi Film and Video Archive, Berlin. This included training material for agents alongside surveillance footage documented on hidden cameras. The transcoded, sometimes sabotaged or anonymised material contains historical layering and witnessing of oppression and resistance. These works begin to raise ethical questions surrounding state surveillance and privacy and teeter on the edges of freedoms.
Visit Rose's website here: www.rosebutler.com
More information about Rose's current exhibition in Berlin can be found here:
Rose Butler: Investigatory Power
Saturday 2 November 2019 to Saturday 4 January 2020
Opening times: Thursdays, Fridays and Saturdays, 2-7pm
Decad, Gneisenaustrasse 52, 10961 Berlin, U7 Sudstern
