[NetBehaviour] Don't Photograph -uh- Sketch The Police

[Martha Deed]

Rob--

Thanks for putting this one up.  It's an important reminder that artists 
involved in quiet social action can be considered a threat by people who 
have a stake in maintaining whatever it is that the artists are 
protesting.  What was not taken up in this article -- and what concerns 
me a lot -- is that the blatant forms of surveillance used by police in 
this case make it very clear that a primary purpose of the surveillance 
is to intimidate would-be protesters and to keep them away.

The amazing part of this article is that the Catts' actually obtained 
access to the information police had gathered.

Martha

The Lost Shoe
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The Lost Shoe video
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this is visual poetry by Millie Niss
http://thisisvisualpoetry.com 
27 March 2010 release



Rob Myers wrote:
> http://bit.ly/d7MXMB
>
> "Catt's artistic endeavours received particular scrutiny. "John Catt sat
> on a folding chair by the southern most gate of EDO MBM and appeared to
> be sketching," states one of several logs. "He was using his drawing pad
> to sketch a picture of the protest and police presence," said another
> from 10 March 2006. A separate report, about his sketch of a Guantánamo
> Bay detainee, noted: "John Catt was very quiet and was holding a board
> with orange people on it.""
>
> (via @tregeagle on Identi.ca.)
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