TAKEAPICTUREORNOT

Moritz Fingerhut is participating in the DETOX at the Quart-festival 2004 with a photo installation. Cameras are installed in the toilets of the festival. Above them there is a sign reading “TAKE A PICTURE OR NOT”. The cameras are right in the center of the person`s view who uses the toilet. The purpose is to set the visitor of the festival in a position of voyeurism, both as a “victim” and as a “perpetrator”, as it is his choice to take a picture of his privacy or not. The installation challenges the user to make a decision. The choice is set as an outline and plays an important part in the concept of the installation. The concern of the work is about the relationship between watching and being watched in our society. The toilette is used as a place where every festival visitor has to show up. Furthermore it is a symbolization of privacy. The pictures will be published via internet and used in a photowork.