Conference, 18th International Conference, CPDP, Brussels, 21 May 2025
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- May 20
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Updated: Jun 8
18th International Conference
Aesthetic Resistance: A poetic artist deconstructs surveillance and control
Wednesday 21 May 2025
16:00-17:15 PM
Address: Maison de la Poste Rue Picard 7, 1000 Bruxelles, Belgium
More information: https://www.cpdpconferences.org/culture-club/the-burrow-monitor-control
In this discussion, we take artist YAO Qingmei’s work The Burrow—Monitor & Control (2022) as a point of departure to explore mechanisms of bodily governance under global surveillance systems.
Inspired by Franz Kafka’s novella The Burrow, the video depicts a female security guard deeply connected to security machines, situated in an underground surveillance room of a gated middle-class community in China. In this hidden digital prison, the controller experiences the outside world—its time, nature, and weather—only through LCD screens and cameras. Yet she herself is also under constant surveillance, reflecting how individuals are disciplined and self-disciplined under invisible regimes of panoptic control.
—— Excerpt from the CPDP website
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