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Mark Dion deftly appropriates scientific modes of investigation and display in order to deconstruct them. Nevertheless, he maintains a real affection for the processes of collecting and discovery, and is sensitive to the aesthetic and fantastic qualities that attract us to such displays. In The Bureau of Remote Wildlife Surveillance, Dion gently mocks and historicizes our highly contingent and mediated understandings of nature. He has set up a number of heat-sensitive “trap-cameras” on his property in Pennsylvania to capture the comings and goings of forest life. He uses them here as part of the “data” studied by a mock surveillance office. Drably institutional and yet neurotically eccentric, the installation alludes to organizations so obsessed with surveillance that the enemy could be anywhere, even in the form of a retreating white-tailed deer.

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