Artist Statement

' [...] drifting and psychogeography. The first could be described as a sort of free association of city space: the idea being simply to follow the streets [...] that one found most attractive; to wander[...] 'Psychogeography' was the study and correlation of the material obtained from drifting.' (Gray, 1974)

This is a performance, based on the idea of 'Drifting' and 'Psychogeography', with the participation of Andy Wells, head operators of the CCTV in Hackney, London. The immersive installation is composed of six monitors, six DVD players, two speakers, a trolley and few chairs in front. A small featureless room will hold the work, where the video will be constantly running at six different times; taken together, the room and the video aim to achieve a rough reproduction of the CCTV control room, where viewers will experience the video performance, taking the role of Andy Wells, the CCTV cameramen who collaborated on this project. 

Artist Bio

Ilenia Voleri lives and works in London, she moved from Fucecchio (Florence-Italy) to London on 2005. She started with photography and video as self-taught, on 2007, and then she decided to study the subjects in a deepest level, technically and conceptually, at University of the Arts -London College of Communication- with a Diploma Foundation in Photography and then a Bachelor of Arts on the same subjects. She ended her student career on June 2010, and her final piece, Self-Exposure, have being in Berwick- upon- Tweed at Film and Media Arts Festival on September 2010.