Big Brother Where Art Thou?
2011
Image: Lene Berg
“Facebook equals Big Brother” is a common trope of our time. The astonishingly successful social networking site is often thought to double as a monitoring device for both corporations and the state. This collaboration between the Norwegian artist Lene Berg and the Canadian writer and performance maker Jacob Wren, taking place entirely on Facebook, is an attempt to unravel the question of what Big Brother might mean today.
Examining the life and legacy of George Orwell by posting questions, dialogues, images, videos and whatever else they can create or find, the project will explore how Big Brother has existed in the past, developed into the present and continues on the internet.
As part of the performing arts festival OFFTA, the MIXOFF events bravely provoke a collision between two worlds to produce a profoundly new language that bends established rules.
Facebook collaboration by Jacob Wren and Lene Berg.
A MIXOFF coproduced with OFFTA (Montréal).