You might also notice that the camera is passed around amongst us. This is according to SUR’s theory of shared value and perspective. The traditional use of the camera is hierarchical, militaristic in its conception, wherein the camera is a weapon. It shoots. The director demands the camera shoots at a subject. Those who are not subjected to the shooting are devalued in the process.
To ameliorate this artistic violence, SUR asks that everyone hold the camera in order to make everyone the subject and value everyone’s perspective.
Every evening, we go out to the hill overlooking downtown Los Angeles and reconnect with ourselves according to the movement exercises advised by SUR.
But SUR also welcomes suggestions of group exercises, as long as the purpose is play.
