Lieux Ordinaires (Ordinary Places) project by ECAL/Anouk Zibaut//Surveillance as a storytelling medium

Ordinary places are those nooks hidden from the streets or that deserted bench that you can see from your window... They are spaces that we can reclaim and that narrate our everyday lives. They are neither places nor monuments but have their own stories. The surveillance cameras that increasingly scan our landscapes are providing these ordinary places with a new movie screen. Through this medium I tell evolutionary stories (in the present) of indefinite duration. Juxtaposed, the camera images are edited live to form a unique narrative sequence.