Ended
Curtis Wallen
Apr 4 – Apr 26, 2015
99¢ Plus is pleased to present Proposition for an On Demand Clandestine Communication Network, a solo project by Curtis Wallen.
In Proposition for an On Demand Clandestine Communication Network, photographer Curtis Wallen builds on lessons learned from documented CIA operational failures in Italy and Lebanon to formulate his own imagining of a secure mobile network.Wallen presents documentation of his process through text, photography, and internet traces. The loose narrative progresses from step to step to build a cohesive aesthetic of secrecy, but leaves the details of the procedure as an exercise for the reader. A phone number is relayed in an undetectable digital drop. Two untraceable phones are active only as long as a call requires and are then destroyed. Any attempt to analyze the network dead ends with unlinkable numbers and rough geographic locations of no distinguishable significance. Part evidence, part guide, Proposition for an On Demand Clandestine Communication Network outlines the logic of evading detection and operating in the shadows.
