test#1: cages

As we inch closer to the five-year anniversary of the G20, test#1:cages, a group project by media activists and individuals who were arrested, has set in motion mobile projections of images and testimony, commemorating sites of the largest mass arrests in Canadian history.

With footage acquired from a two year Freedom of Information process documenting the illegal incarceration of Gabriel Jacobs, one of the many innocent citizens arrested, test#1:cages moves across critical sites in the city, giving witness to violent police tactics and a concerted effort to violate civil rights. test#1 links the policing of the G20 to ongoing everyday violence perpetrated against vulnerable communities by the state security apparatus.

Here are images of test #1:cages, taken as it interrupted and intersected with Nuit Blanche on October 4- 5, 2014:

King & Bay, Toronto: the site of the arrest of Gabe Jacobs on June 27, 2010

Spadina & Queen: on the left, footage of kettling, and on the right, a crowded detention cage.

City Hall: East side, Bay Street. Gabe alone in his G20 detention centre cage/cell.

Eastern Avenue film studio that was converted into a detention centre during the G20.