{"id":8298,"date":"2019-11-01T12:00:20","date_gmt":"2019-11-01T12:00:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.ac.uk\/c3riimpact\/?p=8298"},"modified":"2020-02-21T11:30:30","modified_gmt":"2020-02-21T11:30:30","slug":"rose-butler-investigatory-power-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.ac.uk\/c3riimpact\/rose-butler-investigatory-power-2\/","title":{"rendered":"‘Investigatory Power’ – Rose Butler’s exhibition opens at Decad Berlin"},"content":{"rendered":"

Investigatory Power<\/em> was recently reviewed in Curator Space – read the coverage here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Rose also wrote an article for Computer Weekly about her research and the exhibition – see it here<\/a>.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

\"Rose<\/a><\/p>\n

Rose Butler<\/a>: Investigatory Power<\/em><\/a><\/strong>
\nSaturday 02 November 2019 to Saturday 04 January 2020<\/strong>
\nDecad Berlin<\/a><\/strong>
\nThursdays, Fridays and Saturdays, 2PM – 7PM
\nOpening night on Friday 01 November 2019, 6PM – 9PM
\nArtist talk on Saturday 02 November 2019, 5PM
\nCurated by Mareike Spendel<\/p>\n

Please join us for the vernissage of Investigatory Power<\/em>, an exhibition by Rose Butler<\/a>, opening at Decad on the 1st of November.<\/p>\n

Investigatory Power<\/em> is an exhibition by British artist Rose Butler bringing together the artist\u2019s own photographic work captured in the UK Houses of Parliament with video footage and imagery selected from the Stasi Records Agency, Film and Video Archive. As part of her doctoral study, which centres on surveillance, Butler considers the ethics and politics of \u2018looking\u2019 through arts practice. The methods, technologies and techniques of the Stasi\u2014to date the only intelligence agency whose activities have been made publicly accessible\u2014are held as a mirror to new UK surveillance legislation. The Investigatory Powers Act (2016), aka \u2018The Snoopers Charter\u2019 significantly extends the UK state agencies\u2019 digital surveillance capabilities. Surveillance, as Butler argues, is the blind spot in a democracy. The files, images and data amassed as a result of contemporary state surveillance are missing from the exhibition. The access to comparable material of a fallen state power allows the artist to make this gap visible.<\/p>\n

The exhibition of Butler\u2019s research coincides this autumn with the commemorations of the 30-year anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall and the reunification of Germany, which marked the end of the Cold War, and the (latest) Brexit deadline (the withdrawal of the UK from the EU).<\/p>\n

\"Rose<\/a><\/p>\n

Rose Butler<\/a> is an artist, researcher and senior lecturer of Fine Art at Sheffield Hallam University. She uses adapted technology and custom built software alongside early cameras and analogue technique to make interactive installations, single and multi-screen videos or large-scale photographs. Rose is currently writing up doctoral research that considers the ethics and politics of looking through surveillance and arts practice. Her interactive dance installation Come & Go, which she showed in the Millennium Galleries in Sheffield in 2017, received an honorary mention as part of the Surveillance Studies Art Prize 2018. Her work has been screened and exhibited internationally, most recently it was part of the Abandon Normal Devices Festival (2017) and an exhibition at Kabinet Muz; Brno, Czech Republic (2017). This year, she presented her research at the Royal College of Art, The British Film Institute and University College London and NeMe, Nicosia, Cyprus.<\/p>\n

Following the opening at Decad, the exhibition Investigatory Power<\/em> will be open to visitors through to Saturday 04 January 2020 with regular hours (Thursday, Friday and Saturday, 2PM – 7PM).<\/p>\n

Please also join us on Saturday 02 November 2019 from 5PM for a presentation and artist talk.<\/p>\n

Read the full press release here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Further information can be found here<\/a> and on the artist’s website<\/a><\/u>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Investigatory Power was recently reviewed in Curator Space – read the coverage here. Rose also wrote an article for Computer Weekly about her research and the exhibition – see it here. Rose Butler: Investigatory Power Saturday 02 November 2019 to Saturday 04 January 2020 Decad Berlin Thursdays, Fridays and Saturdays, 2PM – 7PM Opening night on Friday 01 November 2019, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8633,"featured_media":7971,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"wds_primary_category":0,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[139],"tags":[5,580,1306,399,109,465,142,621],"class_list":["post-8298","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-art-and-design-research-centre","tag-berlin","tag-decad","tag-exhibition","tag-fine-art-research","tag-germany","tag-rose-butler","tag-surveillance"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blogs.shu.ac.uk\/c3riimpact\/files\/2019\/10\/2019-10-BUTLER-Investigatory-Power-exhibition-Decad-Berlin.jpg?fit=890%2C290&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8oFHo-29Q","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":7969,"url":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.ac.uk\/c3riimpact\/rose-butler-investigatory-power\/","url_meta":{"origin":8298,"position":0},"title":"‘Investigatory Power’ – Exhibition by Rose Butler opens next month at Decad Berlin","author":"Ian Braddick","date":"09\/10\/2019","format":false,"excerpt":"Investigatory Power is an exhibition by British artist Rose Butler curated by Mareike Spendel bringing together the artist\u2019s own photographic work captured in the UK Houses of Parliament with video footage and imagery selected from the Stasi Records Agency, Film and Video Archive. 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