Poster short abstract:

The interactive analogue/digital foto essay asks how "the public" was trying to create security in Covid 19 times with a variety of measures. As a part of the dialectics of prevention, the attempts to create security in everyday life jeopardized everyday life at the same time on a different level.

Poster long abstract:

The poster intends to be an interactive analogue/digital (QR) foto essay. It comprises visual aspects of dealing with the then assumed uncertainties of the spread of the Covid 19 virus starting in 2020.

How was the security seeking public (as a figuration of multiple actors, not just the authorities) dealing with an anticipated risk in everyday life? Employing the method of a visual collage of fotos and videos taken by myself in these times the poster intends to show the variety of security measures from physical, mechanical barriers, inhibition technologies, selective or gadget access controls, multiple security procedures, public signs on the wall, postings, prompts etc. etc.

The contribution thus intends to focus on the dialectics of prevention. The sometimes desperate attempts of protection against an anticipated risk inflicts everyday life heavily with multiple side effects. While aiming to secure everyday life, it jeopardizes everyday life at the same time.