Invading/Inviting: From Surveillance to Byzantium

Meurer, Ulrich

doi:10.28937/1000108422

Abstract

While border surveillance produces geopolitical realities and distinctions between types of human life, Richard Mosse’s video installation INCOMING (2017) uses a military high-grade thermal camera to challenge this onto-political project. Recording refugee camps and crossings via the Mediterranean into Europe, his techno-images’ specific mosaic structure, tactility, and luminous flatness evoke the visual mode of Byzantine icons, thus switching from a paranoid, invasive world/view to an economy of mediation and contact with the Other.

Preferred Citation

Meurer, Ulrich: Invading/Inviting: From Surveillance to Byzantium. In: ZMK Zeitschrift für Medien- und Kulturforschung. Schalten und Walten, Jg. 11 (2020), Nr. 1, S. 157–173. DOI: https://doi.org/10.25969/mediarep/18748.

Subjects

Technobilder
Grenzüberwachung
Flüchtlinge
techno-images
border surveillance
refugees

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