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Insecurity @ DSEi

A Taggart | 10.09.2003 13:49 | DSEi 2003 | London

Amid the new culture of fear generated it appears that anxious publics are willing to put up with
many more intrusions, interceptions, delays and questions than was the case
before 9/11. Insecurity Guard plays with a reversal in roles to test how far
do subjects collude with, negotiate and resist practices that are intrusive?



Insecurity Officer Mark Barnsley welcomes arms-dealers to DSEi with the offer of a strip-search.

Since September 11th 2001 regimes around the world have cynically and opportunistically taken advantage of public insecurity to introduce Draconian repression against their own citizens. Amid the new culture of fear generated it appears that anxious publics are willing to put up with many more intrusions, interceptions, delays and questions than was the case before 9/11. Insecurity Guard plays with a reversal in roles to test how far do subjects collude with, negotiate and resist practices that are intrusive?

Considered ‘an enemy of the state’, having been held for ten years in UK maximum security prisons Mark Barnsley worked a shift as an ‘in-security guard’ searching bags and questioning the unsuspecting arms dealers at DSEi.

Insecurity Guard is a collaborative venture between Mark Barnsley and Ange Taggart of My Dads Strip Club.

Barnsley and Taggart’s next shift will be on the anniversary of 9/11 in Amsterdam.

9 September 2003 DSEi London
11 & 12 September 2003 Next5m Amsterdam

 http://www.freemarkbarnsley.com
 http://www.mydadsstripclub.com
 http://www.n5m.org

A Taggart
- Homepage: http://www.mydadsstripclub.com

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