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country's network of national parks and national prisons are coextensive
formations in the production of "nation-space", with its constituent myths
of national origin, national identity, national continuity. |
As new political technologies
are expanding the coercive apparatus of carceral society, institutional
leisure space offers relief and diversion, promising rewards through privileged
access to liberatory natural knowledge.
In park space and time, presumably, disciplinary surveillance will be
evaded. The public body, free to mirror the naturalist's gaze, is appeased
through consumption of emancipatory cultures: the festivals and sciences
of rediscovered "nature".
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Y+2Pstudio
will explore rifts and disjunctures that emerge from superimposed matrices
of national parks and national prison systems, a topology agitated by
disputes over the jurisdictions of nature and technology.
How are boundaries and horizons produced to situate this 'geographic imaginary'?
What topography is inscribed within collisions and interpenetrations of
ideas about�order and disorder -- taxonomic ideas of identity and classification
that underwrite representations of both natural and social bodies?
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Y+2Pstudio
tracks flows of transient pilgrims and penitents -- innocent and guilty
-- whose desire is projected across the landscape of signs, who seek utopia
through transparent natural law, discovering distopia in the opaque space
of the penal code.
In mapping theaters of emancipation and suppression, Y+2Pstudio
is absorbed into the audience of our national spectacle of reward and punishment.
Thanks
to our guest critics:
Mid-review
11 November 1999:
Mojdeh Baratloo, Jean Gardner, Kent Hikida, Peter Wheelwright,
John Young
Final Review
8 December 1999:
Nic Musolino, Joel Sanders, Peter Wheelwright, John Young
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