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Tango Panopticon
a Worldwide Sensual Incursion on Video Surveillance

Tango Panopticon is a new series of Tango Interventions around the world in public spaces that are surveilled by government or private video cameras. Tango is a breathtaking act of intimate connection between two people. Tango Panopticon brings this sensual intimacy to unlikely settings to reclaim urban space, and to expose and unsettle the panoptic machine of public surveillance. Together, worldwide, we will confound the machine by acting through a networked community celebrating sensuality, intimacy, play and the cumulative power of individual gestures of beauty.

Tango Panopticon Beta Version was launched May 1, 2009 with Tango Interventions under public video surveillance in 15 cities around the world, from Maui to Krakow and 13 stops in between. A year later on May Day 2010 Tango Panopticon 2.0 will reprise this historic event in a greatly expanded version. Tango Panopticon 2.0 will provide at least 6 groups of tango interveners in at least 6 cities with smart phones that will allow them to stream live video from their event to our server where it will be visible to public and participants in other cities and anywhere in the world via the Internet. There will also be large screen projection of all live video streams in several cities.

Leading up to Tango Panopticon 2.0 will be a series of smaller Tango Panopticon interventions in cities around the world. I will be doing these interventions with partners in several cities, but everyone is welcome to produce their own Tango Panopticon actions where ever they are.

--..... -Be a part of this Historic Series!

Click on one of the two links below to get more information about participating in Tango Panopticon 2.0 anywhere in the world, either as part of Tango Panopticon 2.0 on May Day 2010, or on any day of your choosing before that day.

THE IDEA...IN CONTEXT........IN ACTION...PARTICIPATE!

Tango is a practice already ready for struggle. It knows about taking sides, positions, risks. It has the experience of domination/resistance from within. Tango... ...is a language of decolonization. So, pick and choose. Improvise. Hide away. Run after them. Stay still. Move at an astonishing speed. Shut up. Scream a rumor. Turn around. Go back without returning. Upside down. Let your feet do the thinking. Be comfortable in your restlessness. Tango.
-----------------------------------------------– Marta E. Savigliano
------------------------------------Tango and the Political Economy of Passion

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For more info please contact tangointervention@gmail.com