Determines the success rate of physical crimes.
By titling the work in the imperative— kiss my camera —the artist implicates the viewer. To look is to accept the kiss. To analyze the "crime work" is to participate in the cover-up. Traditional documentary ethics demand distance and judgment. This work denies both. You cannot judge the crime without also judging the lens that kissed it. You cannot separate the act from its aesthetic pleasure. In this way, v019 functions as a trap for the moral gaze: the more you try to understand the crime, the more you are drawn into the very desire that produced it. kiss my camera v019 crime work