Gentle Resistance examines the rise of modern surveillance methods and their complexities in tech-utopia Singapore, highlighting the difficulties individuals face whilst engaging in acts of gentle resistance to reclaim their privacy.

Living in a society that privileges socio-political discipline and control, Singapore is an auto-regulatory society that treats surveillance as part of everyday life in exchange for stability and a textureless sort of freedom. Any individual who dares to step outside the boundaries and disrupt good social order both offline and online often faces disproportionately severe punishments for the public good and national security. We are conditioned to abide without resistance and accept the encroachment of privacy without question. For this reason, any individuals seeking to reclaim the loss of privacy often find themselves facing the laborious task of threading gently along the boundaries set out by the authorities. 

Using tactics of mockery and satire to give notions of discomfort and uneasiness - Gentle Resistance spotlights the imbalance of power that forms the fabric of society. Ultimately providing a shift in perspective of the social control that our surveillance machinery can exert through the authorities and large corporations and highlighting the complexity in the discourse of individual privacy vs. public good. 

Gentle Resistance is a body of work made up of individual projects that look at the themes of surveillance and privacy as pertaining to Singaporeans and citizens of modern society.

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