40 Minutes, Surveilled was an experimental, impulsive performance in which Chan assumed the role of examiner and subject at the same time. For 40 minutes, Chan Was Voluntarily locked in a Basement room with only a moveable wooden table and a standing camera, in which he could not touch.
The concept of surveillance was observed and toyed with in this performance as Chan attempted to understand the mental changes a patient or prisoner Undergoes when confined. Chan was made aware that he could act however he pleased while locked in the room and was encouraged to engage in impulsive behaviour. Due to a purposeful lack of dialogue or verbiage in the entirety of the documentation except for the captions, the audience remains unknowing to all in which chan is thinking except for the examiner, who’s omniscience is due to him being chan himself.
These stills below have been compiled into a bound print and then photographed. The short book was meant to accompany the filmed performance, to help summarize Chan’s observable actions and impulses. Time stamps are included beside each still, chronologically.
