in italiano

SURVEILLANCE CAMERA PLAYERS
http://www.notbored.org/the-scp.html

« We are the Surveillance Camera Players, a group formed in New York City in november 1996. We protest against the use of surveillance cameras in public spaces because the cameras violate our constitutionally protected right to privacy. We manifest our opposition by performing specially adapted plays directly in front of these cameras. We use our visibility - our public appearances, our interviews with the media, our web site - to explode the cynical myth that only those who are "guilty of something" are opposed to being surveilled by unknown eyes.

We have come here today because this area is filled with unmarked surveillance cameras. If you, too, are worried about the destruction of your constituional rights in the name of "fighting crime," we encourage you to form your own anti-surveillance camera group. You can even use the name "Surveillance Camera Players"! Just let the message go out: Down with Big Brother!»

(text of the flyer SCPlayers hand out to passers-by during their performances - http://www.notbored.org/generic.jpg )

The SCP New York is a group that find inspiration from the distortions of contemporary city life to mix up live theater with social direct action. Inspired also by situationism and psycogeography, their practices respond with amazingly low-tech and imaginative tools to the ever growing achievements of the society of control.

Even though they don't self promote through recognised circuits, the SCP New York have inspired similar groups all over the US and Europe, and have been invited to relevant international events like "World.Information.Org 2000" and "CTRL [SPACE]" dello ZKM di Karlsruhe (2001).