The “Loose Connections: FTP” project. A 5 week residency based/grounded in the White Street Mall Shop front Frankston. Exploring the geo-physical and cultural psyche of the Frankston Central Activities District, via the found object, a range of surveys developed on site, planned and impromptu performative breaches, the installation genre, temporal interventions in selected civic sites.
For three weeks 3 days weekly. A small photo booth, reminiscent of the photo booths attached to train stations, traveled various sites in the Frankston CBD. The public was invited to enter with a stranger and seated next to each other to be photographed. As one leaves each participant was given a strip of photos to keep.
“From the ‘stranger danger’ of childhood to the current political climate that urges Australians to suspect and fear strangers, the Photobooth Project wishes to initiate connections between disparate individuals. The project is interested in documenting the experience of being a stranger to someone, whilst considering what it is exactly that keeps us disconnected and apart.” Amy Spiers
