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Avery F. Gordon-The remains of a prison: fugitive knowledge on the wings of red arrows


14 Oct 2013, 5:00pm - 7:00pm

LG 02, New Academic Building

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Cost free
Department Art
Contact ma.harris(@gold.ac.uk)

MA Lecture Series 2013-14

How to tell the story of a very old place of confinement and punishment? What happens if all the pictures are wrong or missing and the people long gone? What traces and messages might they have left for us to find? Is it possible now, after such terrible treatment, to offer those confined in the prison a more hospitable welcome? This is the hope.

In this lecture, Avery F. Gordon will discuss The Workhouse: Room 2, a collaboration with Berlin artist Ines Schaber produced for documenta(13). Room 2 of The Workhouse engages with the history of the former monastery, workhouse, and prison Breitenau. Over time, Breitenau has confined many persons considered extraneous and disposable subjecting them to a regime of punishment and “correction.” Consisting of photographs, curtain, text, and audio files, Room 2 of The Workhouse presents glimpses of fugitive knowledge that emerge in and around this prison in order to conjure historical alternatives that could have been taken but were not and to contribute to an ongoing archive of re-memory whose aims are not correction.

Avery F. Gordon is a Professor of Sociology at the University of California, Santa Barbara and Visiting Faculty Fellow at the Center for Research Architecture, Goldsmiths College. During the Fall 2013, she is Honorary Research Fellow in the Birkbeck Institute for Social Research. She is the author of Notes for the Breitenau Room of The Workhouse; Keeping Good Time: Reflections on Knowledge, Power and People and Ghostly Matters: Haunting and the Sociological Imagination, among other publications. She is the co-host of No Alibis, a weekly public affairs radio program and the Keeper of the Hawthorne Archives, which records the living history of a group of runaways, secessionists and in-differents who form autonomous zones and settlements.

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