The publication Politics Art Property III: Closed Architecture released by production company Onoma

PVV MP Fleur Agema designed as an architecture student as part of her master's thesis a new model prison. Jonas Staal found the thesis, wrote a book about it and decided to reconstruct the prison. Tonight and tomorrow (21 and 22 December), he discusses the model with theater artists, journalists and writers in a system of prison in Theater Frascati.
"When I was doing research on the so-called 'Vrijdenkersuimte', an exhibition space that was created by the VVD and PVV for artworks that deal would have had with Islamic censorship, I explored the artistic background youtube to mp4 of the various spokespersons for this space. In the PVV this Fleur Agema, was a former architecture student at the AKI in Enschede and HKU in Utrecht. I then searched in the archives and came across her 344-page master's thesis in which a new model is central prison - titled Closed Architecture (2004).
"The design is based on the conditioning of prisoners through four phases, where the amount of space and light per phase is tightly regulated. youtube to mp4 The first phase is titled "The Bunker" - it is broken by the isolation resistance of the prisoner. The latter is called "The Light" - a reconstruction of a residential area, where the prisoner lives in apparent freedom under surveillance 24 hours. youtube to mp4 Detainees receive a certain stage 'learning' it - when they get that they are entering a phase advance, and if not, backwards. That means that it would no longer be condemned. To a fixed number of years in prison The prisoner youtube to mp4 punished in this process, as it were himself. It is an ideal model for ideological youtube to mp4 opposition, think of politicians, artists and activists who refuse on principle to follow 'learning'.
"That this is not a model for a prison, but for the segregated society that is now under construction, the so-called 'diploma democracy'. It shows the outline of a model based on classes - stages - that imprisons youtube to mp4 everyone in his social circumstances. The first phase is south of Rotterdam or the Bijlmer, youtube to mp4 the last of the gated communities of Lelystad and Dronten. It shows a society that no longer needs prison, but itself has become a prison. Agema is an architect disguised youtube to mp4 as a politician, her artwork is the world where we today have become 'in wake.
"The presentation was realized in collaboration with Frascati youtube to mp4 Amsterdam and includes a diptych titled The society as a prison. The two "acts" - entitled 'Reflections on the closed society' and 'Proposals for the open society' - takes place in an installation of my hand, which parts of the model from Agema 1:1 scale are reproduced. This model will be investigated to what extent Agema's model can be seen on our society and what we can say. "Opposite as a blueprint by theater artists, journalists youtube to mp4 and writers
"We have some emails exchanged. They criticized me initially to a number of factual youtube to mp4 errors, but that turned out to focus mainly on the relationship that I lay between her activities as an architect and as a politician her - not so much to the performance of its model itself, but the interpretation thereof. I approach youtube to mp4 her prison youtube to mp4 model in my project as a blueprint for the closed society. She calls it an "idiotic together imaginary comparison between an innocent choice for designing a prison and my political views." '
The publication Politics Art Property III: Closed Architecture released by production company Onomatopee, and to order and download via www.onomatopee.net free, the model and film can be seen in the exhibition 1:1 with Hans van Houwelingen at Extra City Kunsthal Antwerpen , the diptych Society will take place on 21 and 22 December in Frascati Amsterdam youtube to mp4 as a prison, the film has also been selected for the Rotterdam Film Festival in 2010.
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