Showing the Victim

After successfully installing our work we introduced the victim to the caravan today. Carl Jones is a fellow student who studies photography with us and shares a student house with Sophia Keenan. He was an excellent choice of victim, often completely oblivious to us following or photographing and filming him and happy to have been our choice.

Julie Wem filmed his reaction which will be put onto a DVD and played at the public opening on Thursday night. He described the experience as "overwhelming" and was surprised by the sort of information that we had found on the internet. He was most shocked by the photographs we had got of his family from his mothers facebook. Generally he was quite quiet and contemplative. The reactions of other people were more raucous. We waited outside as people went in and we could hear cries of disgust, shock and laughter. Generally people found it shocking and unsettling and as a group we were very happy with the reaction we achieved.