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Domecage Prisons
(03 July 2009) - by Richard Dewitt "I like to call them Sportdomes, not cages," says prison architect Willem Van der Sluis. Indeed, his unusual 2007 project in the Zaandam industrial zone in the Netherlands consists of conjoined geodesic domes that don't look like cages at all. But, these spaces, designed for playing sports, prevent soccer or basketball players from escaping; the users are inmates. Starting with the...
(03 July 2009) - by Richard Dewitt "I like to call them Sportdomes, not cages," says prison architect Willem Van der Sluis. Indeed, his unusual 2007 project in the Zaandam industrial zone in the Netherlands consists of conjoined geodesic domes that don't look like cages at all. But, these spaces, designed for playing sports, prevent soccer or basketball players from escaping; the users are inmates. Starting with the...
The Con Film Festival
(12 May 2009) - by Tisha Leung "The Con Film Festival," a two-week, twenty-one film series of prison movies, spotlighting cons, ex-cons and other incarcerated outcasts, runs at Film Forum through Thursday, 21 May 2009. Featuring a special appearance by Dawson Brown, Acting Superintendent of Sing Sing Correctional Facility, he'll introduce tomorrow's 6:15pm show of "20,000 Years In Sing Sing" (1933). Following the screening, a Q and A...
(12 May 2009) - by Tisha Leung "The Con Film Festival," a two-week, twenty-one film series of prison movies, spotlighting cons, ex-cons and other incarcerated outcasts, runs at Film Forum through Thursday, 21 May 2009. Featuring a special appearance by Dawson Brown, Acting Superintendent of Sing Sing Correctional Facility, he'll introduce tomorrow's 6:15pm show of "20,000 Years In Sing Sing" (1933). Following the screening, a Q and A...
Photographer Jeff Barnett-Winsby
(01 May 2009) - This photo essay by Jeff Barnett-Winsby looks at a program through which inmates at a Kansas correctional facility were given sick or injured dogs to raise for a period of time before they were adopted out into the wider community. Barnett-Winsby says, "While taking the photographs of the interiors, I was introduced to a program at the prison that they were incredibly proud of....
(01 May 2009) - This photo essay by Jeff Barnett-Winsby looks at a program through which inmates at a Kansas correctional facility were given sick or injured dogs to raise for a period of time before they were adopted out into the wider community. Barnett-Winsby says, "While taking the photographs of the interiors, I was introduced to a program at the prison that they were incredibly proud of....
Tokyo Prison Art
(20 April 2005) - David Choe is showing this Friday 22 April, 6pm at the Power House Gallery in NYC. The show is entitled "Tokyo Prison Art" and will feature sketches during his bid in a Tokyo prison last year-- where he landed himself for 3 months. It's no doubt going to be a graphic showing; you have my forewarning. The materials he had to paint with in...
(20 April 2005) - David Choe is showing this Friday 22 April, 6pm at the Power House Gallery in NYC. The show is entitled "Tokyo Prison Art" and will feature sketches during his bid in a Tokyo prison last year-- where he landed himself for 3 months. It's no doubt going to be a graphic showing; you have my forewarning. The materials he had to paint with in...
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