Abstract
Extraordinary Rendition, a collaboration between artists Tim Guthrie and Doug Hayko, is a multi-space installation that will divides an exhibition space into four distinct rooms. The installation includes a performance (Interrogation Room with performers throughout the exhibit), a wall of surveillance monitors showing various videos along with a large video projection (Surveillance Room) juxtaposed with a group of traditional portraits rendered simply in graphite on paper (Gallery Room). At the opposite end of the gallery from the surveillance and interrogation rooms is a fourth room where kids are removed from the violence of the performance, where ironically, they watch an equally violent cartoon.
While visitors contemplate the work in the Gallery Room, surveillance cameras attached to the frames above the drawings simultaneously record their re/actions. These videos display live on monitors in the Surveillance Room and digitally download to an online database for future examination and analysis. During the entire opening reception, there is a performance in the Interrogation Room that takes place while other performers circulate in areas throughout the entire exhibition space.