ACCEPT ALL
"Upon entering the gallery space you are asked to accept all our terms and conditions to continue to the exhibition. You hereby allowed us to take your picture and add it to the feed of images, collecting you amongst others who also accepted all.
"Upon entering the gallery space you are asked to accept all our terms and conditions to continue to the exhibition. You hereby allowed us to take your picture and add it to the feed of images, collecting you amongst others who also accepted all.
Furthermore, you agree to be followed by embodied third party tracking performers, who will take notes on your behaviors and ask occasional questions to complete their personality data collection.
At 21.30 the data sets will be publicly traded amongst the visitors. You can acquire your own data or buy others. After purchasing, you can uniquely identify the data and get in touch."
Concept: Romy Lagodka
Programming: Yi Qu
Programming: Yi Qu
Performers: Rinat Khanbekov, Alkim Cebeci, Gizem Keser
ErsterErster Gallery
Pappelallee 69, 10437 Berlin
Pappelallee 69, 10437 Berlin
16th-20th of January 2019
The performance idea emerged after reflecting the invisibility and lack of a physical body of most technology that surrounds us these days, yet leaving tapping without most of our sensorial information. Giving the virtual a physical presence could allow visitors through theatrical means to have a new experience, engage, question and reflect. The gallery served as the body of the website, with an accept all button at the entrance. The terms and conditions were printed out as an endless scroll to emphasize the outrageous length of legal language, that mostly stays unread.
Upon entering slowly the visitors realize what they agreed to, when approached by the cookies performers, acting as little pieces of data, that track the web like invisible spies. The performers weren't hiding, they were openly following the visitors, taking notes, asking questions and gladly answering questions the visitors might have. Creating an interaction on a most human level.
The culmination of all the embodiments of data collection was the data trade toward the end of the vernissage, where the gathered data was auctioned off to the highest bidder.
The visitors could therefore engage in the full experience of the date lifecycle and buy a physical document of their own data or of others.