On April 14th I started a project called "Living With Jesus". Over 6 months I collected 50 Jesus images, prints and paintings on flea markets and on ebay. Not because I'm religious (completely impartial agnostic, me), but simply because I noticed that people were trying to get rid of their Jesus images.
On April 12th I had them placed on the walls of my tiny apartment in Stuttgart. Since Monday 14th I'm spending one day with each Jesus image, I invite and welcome guests who have to fill out a questionnaire and obviously I analyze the gathered data.
The main language of the project is english to be widely understandable and the project makes use of flickr, youtube, vimeo and google maps, besides the actual project space itself.
The project will run until the end of June, every minute of it is documented by a "surveillance camera" placed on one wall, which is set to make one picture every minute. The images will be edited into a time-lapse movie.
A photographer will take portraits of 50 of my guests. These portraits will form an exhibition together with the "original" Jesus images.
To find out more, to participate: http://www.living-with-jesus.com
Tagged as:
culture, discussion, experiment, jesus, project, surveillance
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