(Live Performance with Video Projection)
London Nights Late: Join the Night London Council
Museum of London
London, UK
Under the force of the nation-state and its highly digital border control, flesh has become a two-dimensional image.
Whiskey Chow interacts with passport photos of her own to question to what degree we have to look like the 'self' that is recognised by the eyes of the machine and the nation.
Chow explores the way that the violent format of passport photos flattens our individuality, and the ways in which this state-sanctioned documentation provides a crude simulacrum of the self.
Cinematographer : JJ Rolfe
Photo by Mark Allan