Presentation in the group show
“On Patrol” with Ergin Cavusoglu, Sophie Calle, Paul Chan, Claudia Cristovao, Mark Bijl, Harun Farocki, Robin van 't Haar, Janice Kerbel, Jill Magid, Yucef Mehri, Julia Scher, socialfiction.org and Deborah Stratman. Curated by Theo Tegelaers and Saskia Bos.

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Since 2002, new types of security workers are patrolling the Randstad area of the Netherlands. Inspectors of Public Space, Youth Surveillance Teams, Street Wardens and others, spend time looking around and being seen, not unlike groups of young people in the streets.

Team Samenscholing Randstad, (literally ‘Team Assembly Randstad’) or TSR, hit the streets of Amsterdam and took up some space of both types of ‘hangers-out’. The TSR staff had outfits that both resembled ordinary street wear and security uniforms. The TSR logo was a cross between a compulsory Dutch ‘security-V’ and a Nike ‘swoosh’.

In the exhibition a video registration of the team at work was presented along with portraits of its members on large vinyl banners. The ‘security swoosh’ was for sale in the art centre.