Garaža Kamba

By using technology to exchange information, the individual is under constant surveillance without the possibility of withdrawal or privacy. Instagram’s and Facebook’s logarithms force their users to continuously post content, and every passive moment is punished with less visibility. The title of multimedia artist Klara Kusa’s project “Visibility is a Trap” comes from Michel Foucault’s book “Discipline and Punish”, in which the author analyzes the strategies of managing and controlling the body through psychology and the effectiveness of surveillance. These disciplinary techniques ensure the obedience of the human masses and elaborate on invisible power tactics that operate economically and aim to increase the obedience and utility of all elements of the system. Klara Kusa’s art installation, after being exhibited in a tram in Bratislava, is re-incarnated in an unconventional exhibition space. With inscriptions on posters and video work, a perpetual vortex of paradoxical attitudes and statements related to the capitalist system is created, touching on the topics of shame, media censorship, and visibility on social networks.
Klara Kusa’s creative approach is based on the critique of artistic (hyper)production of artifacts as one of the main premises of the neoliberal, free market that are also implemented in the world of art. In her artistic practice, she therefore applies an experimental approach that relies on the tools and strategies of (post)conceptual art, in this project dealing with the concept of absurdity and the contradictions of social reality. We are fighting against capitalism, at the same time supporting and using that same system to express our views and opinions, which, if they become too dangerous, are censored. Escape is only an illusion; it is impossible without a complete break from such a comprehensive system that mercilessly grabs every segment of our lives.

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