Feeling of Being Watched is a doc film investigating FBI surveillance of Arab & Muslim communities in Chicago. Inverse Surveillance Project is the sequel...
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Very excited to announce the release of our OFFICIAL TRAILER!! Peep it here: youtu.be/oSRIWQVX9-4
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The Feeling of Being Watched Doc retweeted
9 Jul 2022
I’m proud to know 2020 #LivingstonAward winner Assia Boundaoui. And I’m honored the #KnightWallaceFellowship could give her space and support to take her powerful investigative reporting from “The Feeling of Being Watched” and extend it to transformative community journalism.
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9 Jul 2022
And the pop-up becomes a vibrant gathering place, a month-long convening where neighbors and family, elders and children, come to process shared anger, confusion, sadness and resilience. They come to witness and release. They come to affirm their place, their stories.
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9 Jul 2022
And you create an immersive community archive that gives people back their voice, agency and control of their stories.
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9 Jul 2022
You build a public journalism instillation, a narrative labyrinth of files that follows the tangled FBI operation that cast a whole community as suspect. Then you transpose those files with digital images of regular families living regular lives.
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9 Jul 2022
What do you do when your reporting forces the FBI to release 30,000 pages on years of surveillance of your community and their aggressive redactions cause more questions and harm? if you’re @assuss you create a public instillation to allow the community to reclaim its story.
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Today @ 5pm!
We hope to see you there!
If you haven’t checked out the exhibit, tomorrow is the perfect opportunity!
Bring yourself, bring the fam, bring your neighbors, and celebrate our closing reception with us!
RSVP: bit.ly/ISPclosingnight
The Feeling of Being Watched Doc retweeted
6 Jul 2022
inviting community to confront thousands of FBI records collected about our Muslim n’hood over a decade of surveillance & then using those records as a canvas to co-create a community archive, has been one of the highlights of my life, closing tomorrow🥹 bit.ly/ISPclosingnight
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If you haven’t checked out the exhibit, tomorrow is the perfect opportunity!
Bring yourself, bring the fam, bring your neighbors, and celebrate our closing reception with us!
RSVP: bit.ly/ISPclosingnight
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Did we mention we’ll have a food truck AND a mixology truck?
Stop by and experience this incredible exhibit!
The Feeling of Being Watched Doc retweeted
5 Jul 2022
This Thursday in Bridgeview, IL! Mark your calendars 📅
After a month of co-creating art, music, hosting power building workshops, and beginning the process of healing as a community, we invite you all for the closing night event!
Mark your calendars and RSVP at bit.ly/ISPworkshops
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After a month of co-creating art, music, hosting power building workshops, and beginning the process of healing as a community, we invite you all for the closing night event!
Mark your calendars and RSVP at bit.ly/ISPworkshops
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Join us to explore the Immersive Community Archive that uses FBI documents about our community’s surveillance as a canvas and is a historic endeavor and unapologetic refusal to allow the Islamiphobic lens of the FBI shape our narrative or dictate our stories.
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29 Jun 2022
tonight in chicago: a DIGITAL SECURITY WORKSHOP hosted by the Inverse Surveillance Project alongside our smart organizer friends at @lucyparsonslabs on the basics of keeping your digital life secure how to wield the power of FOIA 🤓✊🏾 eventbrite.com/e/arts-and-po… @BeingWatchedDOC
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28 Jun 2022
Chicagoland folks, we invite you for a digital security training tomorrow evening with @lucyparsonslabs, an incredible organization that sheds light on digital rights and on-the-street issues.
RSVP at: bit.ly/ISPworkshops
We’re excited to see you there!
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28 Jun 2022
It is important now more than ever that we are aware of our digital rights and protecting our online presence.
**Note on access: Participation is limited to Muslim and/or Arab identifying community members who have endured government surveillance, personally and/or collectively.
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7 Jun 2022
We are grateful to be partners on this community art exhibit in Chicago's "Little Palestine," featuring creative technology to reclaim the voices and stories of those long affected by federal mass surveillance programs.
6 Jun 2022
the moment when we confront & contest the FBI's violent, non-consensual record of being watched with a community archive of love, of being seen... honored to finally present inversesurveillance.com, a site-specific art installation in Chicago's "Little Palestine" ✊🏾
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16 Jun 2022
yesterday dreams came true, visions were realised, many tears were shed and hearts collectively expanded. big love to @danyaqato and our entire community advisory board for being on this co-creation journey w/us. Chicago fam, we’ll be here all month ! inversesurveillance.com/even…
16 Jun 2022
A million kudos and congrats to @assuss who envisioned– in partnership with @boundaoui_ and a crew of community members– the co/creation of a LIVING, BREATHING community archive that rejects the narrative of the state and instead says, 'we are the storytellers that matter' 💜1/3
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14 Jun 2022
9,930 pages of FBI FOIA records, 140 feet of wall, one tri-circular labyrinth … introducing the Inverse Surveillance Project, co-created with the Chicago Arab and Muslim community in “Little Palestine” — opening tomorrow!! inversesurveillance.com/even…
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The Feeling of Being Watched Doc retweeted
6 Jun 2022
it's been an absolute honor to partner with @imancentral @MWFNational @watanpalestine and @tatreezandtea for this co-created project that has been a total labor of spirit and heart, thank you each for your invaluable collaboration
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The Feeling of Being Watched Doc retweeted
6 Jun 2022
the moment when we confront & contest the FBI's violent, non-consensual record of being watched with a community archive of love, of being seen... honored to finally present inversesurveillance.com, a site-specific art installation in Chicago's "Little Palestine" ✊🏾
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