The New Normal is an art show in Germany on the subject of privacy in the post 9/11 world. Above:

Submitting oneself to security measures can be turned upside down by adopting what Hassan Elahi calls an “aggressive compliance.” Elahi daily points a mocking finger to absurd security measures with the real-time self-tracking website he set up in a bid to demonstrate to the FBI investigator that he’s not spending his time traveling to the Middle East and plotting some attack in the U.S. The models features in Sharif Waked’s Chic Point Fashion for Israeli Checkpoints video seem to have adopted a similar strategy.

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