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On Monday May
17th 1993 at 1pm in Newcastle on Tyne city centre a synchronised walk took
place in two separate locations by Pat Naldi and Wendy Kirkup. This event
was recorded on the 16 camera surveillance system in the city centre. It consists
of 20 ten-second sequences which were transmitted during commercial breaks
on Tyne tees television. The piece works with contemporary panopticism and
high technology, but also re-monumentalises the everyday. Remote sensing equipment
and the microstructures of
the social collide. The placing of the piece in advertising territory subtly
interrogates divisions of public and private time which usually pass un-remarked.