PRIVACY-FREE ZONE
The zone exists. It is between us. It has changed us.
The zone exists. It is between us. It has changed us.
Four meters in diameter. Drawn on public soil. Water resistant. Anti-slip. The circle is not symbolic. It is operational. Literal. Real.
To stand within the circle is to cross a threshold. Not a metaphorical boundary. A juridical suspension. You enter the zone and law pauses itself. Both article 28 and article 21 become simultaneously active.
This is not violation. This is voluntary transformation.
Swiss law contains an irresolvable contradiction.
Article 21: "Freedom of expression and information is guaranteed."
Article 28: "No one's personality may be unlawfully infringed."
These cannot coexist. The zone does not resolve this paradox. It spatializes it.
Consciousness is layered. From unconscious impulse to intentional act. Each layer necessary.
You become aware simultaneously of law, ethics, your body, the gaze of others, and your own freedom. All layers collapse into a single moment.
Modern privacy law has made fragmentation ethical. We retreat behind protections. Hide our faces. We become invisible to each other.
This is not freedom. This is social death disguised as protection.
The zone inverts this. It says: Come together. Be visible. This is not collectivism. It is voluntary solidarity in visibility.
Biopolitics is power operating at the level of life itself. Privacy law is biopolitical technology.
The zone deprivatizes the body. Makes it public. Makes it free. Inside the zone, bodies are consciously visible, collectively witnessed, ethically present.
The project did not justify itself. It simply began. Each manifestation deepened the operation.
Long Lake Festival – The First Public Manifestation
A red circle appeared on the waterfront. Four meters diameter. No announcement. No permits.
People crossed the threshold. They consented by standing. Their images circulated globally. The zone became real.
Radiotelevisione Svizzera documented it. National television reported: "In Lugano, a red circle suspends the law." The project entered public discourse.
The zone exists. We have entered it. We have been changed.
Swiss Photo Award. The problem becomes visible.
Metropolitan Portraits. Institutional exhibitions.
RSI Television. National broadcast. Zone enters consciousness.
Camera F Publication. Theoretical framework articulated.
Fribourg Iteration. Different city. Same protocol.
Paris Expansion. Zone becomes global.
COVID Joggers Act. Pandemic resistance. Political action.
Infinite Circulation. No ending. Performance eternal.
We were fragmented. Each behind our own protections. The zone made us visible to each other.
It has not ended. It is not a past event. It is ongoing. Every invocation extends it. Every person who enters becomes part of it.
The red circle is always performing itself.