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Surveillance is Not Safety

In the centre of the poster is the black silhouette of CCTV camera embedded into the ceiling, with a black eye in the centre. A red triangle stretches out from the eye into the bottom left corner. White text cut out of the ceiling above the camera reads: Surveillance and beneath this large block text in black reads ‘Is Not Safety’.

This poster connects directly to the on-going #StopOxevision campaign, resisting the roll-out of surveillance cameras into bedrooms on psychiatric wards. As technology advances, it will continue to be applied in ways that violates the human rights of Mad people, often as a test ground for further roll-outs to other oppressed groups, and eventually everyone.

Sign the open letter and find out more about #StopOxevision at https://linktr.ee/stopoxevision.

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An Archive of Propaganda from a Mad People’s Uprising

This artwork is part of Lilith (Lea) Cooper’s imagined fictional archive of downloadable posters from The Mad People’s Uprising of 2033, commissioned for SMHAF 2023.

It asks what a Mad revolution might look like, creating a space to imagine beyond the present day, and locating today’s Mad, survivor and mental health activism in a longer genealogy.

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