Still Looking
In seeking
asylum or stay in the UK, people are scrutinised while being held in
limbo, their lives surveilled and forced into stasis, sometimes for
years, as they wait for their fate to be decided. Lunar House is home to one of the UK’s six Asylum Screening Units.
For those seeking stay in the UK, it is a known site of scrutiny and a
centre of surveillance. People are required to attend to apply for
asylum, to report weekly or fortnightly while they wait for a decision,
and to undergo interrogations and frequently hostile dissections of
their lives to prove their right to stay.
Still Looking
comprises a set of short films based on repeated hours-long visits to photograph Lunar House, a gesture towards returning the building's scrutiny in an act of sousveillance.
NB - all videos contain elements of flashing images.