Glass Struggle

A spatial and object-based project accompanied by a web platform. Exhibited objects included: an LED screen; a Gothic window/glass panel; an unbound copy of Plato’s Symposium placed between sheets of glass; a glass model/lamp of the NSA headquarters; broken window glass forming a “glass carpet”; laser-engraved glass spheres bearing views of bank façades; voyeuristic views into someone’s home window placed on concrete pedestals; and a concrete structure with smartphones, one of which displayed a web platform extending the exhibition.

Core concerns: glass as mirror (privacy, surveillance, big data); glass as interface (platform, surface, screen); glass as barrier (enabling access while simultaneously regulating and controlling it).

I mapped the operative and normative conditions through which the visible takes shape and visibility becomes operative. In Glass Resistance, these emerge in the functions of glass (mirror, interface, barrier) and in the structures of access, distance, and legibility that shape the visible.

Graphic design (web & exhibition): Maria Muuk
Web texts: Maria Lee, Sten Eltermaa
Exhibition design: Arvi Anderson