Swizzle Studio
Rob Elliott
Fake ID is participatory installation which encourages a discussion of shared experiences of rebellion
and the erosion of liminal space. Members of the public will be encouraged to take their place in front
of an enormous driver's license and have a friend take their photo. Swizzle staffers will offer a kit
with instructions for making fake ID cards from their digital photographs. Fake ID asks if shared acts
of rebellion are really acts of rebellion, and whether a fake is better than the real thing, as it carries
the cachet of rebellion. Today, bar codes and holograms have become the norm, so the idea of this fake
ID having any use is laughable. However, if printed and pocketed, Fake ID can transport the bearer to
a not so distant past when a person could disappear, cross borders or even change identities with relative
ease.
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Rob Elliott, Fake ID proposal sketch, 2008, mixed media
Fake ID
Multimedia Installation
C30 Trinity Bellwoods Park, 790 Queen Street West
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