MEDIA WATCH was curated by Joanna Callaghan and was a strategy adopted for performance project KISSS, the Kinship International Strategy on Surveillance and Suppression.
MEDIA WATCH (2005) was an investigative performance concerning how popular media finds, uses and presents information. Dedicated to analysing media speak, subtext and information dissemination. Troping bureaucratic structures and institutional rhetoric MEDIA WATCH reflects on news making processes, the role of the 21st century ‘Citizen Reporter’ and the relation between art and activism.
The approach employed rapid media making through web based presentation and forums, photography, video, interventionist street performance and live public broadcasts on London community radio station, ResonanceFM.
MEDIA WATCH operated through the contributions of Task Forces and Correspondents located throughout the globe.
A six week, live discussion program broadcast on London’s art radio station, Resonance 104.4FM in August 2005. The program debated issues raised by the research conducted by the Media Watch team.
‘News Making Processes’ was an analysis of UK terrestrial television coverage of the London bombings from the 7th July – 29th July 2005 conducted by the Television Task Force on behalf of Media Watch.
KISSS, the Kinship International Strategy on Surveillance and Suppression was an international feminist art and activism project curated by Joanna Callaghan, Deej Fabyc, Camilla Brueton and Paul Roush. Featuring over 50 artists and ran from 2005-2008.
Exhibited
Whitechapel Art Gallery London, Conical Gallery Melbourne, Castlefield Gallery Manchester.
‘News Making Processes’ screened CCA Glasgow.
Articles & reviews
Katy Deepwell, KISSS Revealed: Interview, Paradoxa International Feminist Art Journal, v.17 Jan
‘How to be a Citizen Reporter’ by Joanna Callaghan published in C6: DIY Survival There is no subculture only subversion, October 2005, ISBN 0-9550664-9-2