Turner Prize winning artist Mark Wallinger walking dangerously on the black taped floor line at his exhibition “State Britain”, a line which continues throughout the building of the art museum Tate Britain, to mark the very edge * of the one-kilometre Exclusion Zone under SOCPA, ‘Serious Organised Crime and Police Act 2005’ were police permission has to be obtained to demonstrate. Far from seeking permission Mark Wallinger’s ‘State Britain’ was constructed in TOP SECRET, it is a careful recreation of a 40 metre long display which had originally been situated around peace campaigner Brian Haw's protest outside the Houses of Parliament against the war in Iraq before being confiscated by the police. London, UK, 15th January 2007
The black tape line is on the very edge of the SOCPA Zone as understood by the artist.
“Drawing is taking a line for a walk” Paul Klee
Date: 15/01/2007
Location: Millbank, London, UK
Photographer: Richard Keith Wolff
