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Walls turned sideways : artists confront the justice system

Title
Walls turned sideways : artists confront the justice system / curated and edited by Risa Puleo.
Publication
  • Houston, Texas : Contemporary Arts Museum Houston ; Miami, Florida : [NAME] Publications, [2018]
  • ©2018

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Additional Authors
  • Hunt, Ashley
  • Puleo, Risa
  • Alexander, Elizabeth
  • Arning, Bill
  • Contemporary Arts Museum (Houston, Tex.), issuing body, host institution
Description
464 pages : illustrations (chiefly color); 28 cm +
Summary
'Walls Turned Sideways' accompanies the largest museum presentation to investigate the criminal justice system in the US. What is the social role and responsibility of the artist in times of political urgency? What functions can only art and artists fulfill in the political landscape? This catalog discusses the work of more than 30 artists from across the nation, with works spanning the past 40 years, who address the criminal justice system and the prison industrial complex. The book's title derives from a quote by political activist and author Angela Davis: "Walls turned sideways are bridges."
Alternative Title
  • Artists confront the justice system
  • Sgt. Kroll goes to the office
  • Prison maps. What is the prison industrial complex?
Subjects
Genre/Form
Exhibition catalogs.
Note
  • Published on the occasion of an exhibition at the Contemporary Arts Museum Houston, August 25, 2018-January 6, 2019.
  • Catalog includes a poster by Ashley Hunt (2003) and a comic strip booklet titled "Sgt. Kroll Goes to the office" (conceived, produced and printed at Beyond Repair, MN.).
  • "With contributions by Elizabeth Alexander, Jimmy Santiago Baca, Evan Bissell and Ora Wise, Andy Campbell, Chicago Torture Justice Memorials, Melanie Crean, Stephen F. Eisenman, Nicole R. Fleetwood, Michel Foucault, et al [R. D. Laing, Howie Harp, Judy Clark], Che Gossett, Sam Gould, Unique Holland, Ashley Hunt, Ben Jones, David Joselit, Theodore Kerr, Chaédria Labouvier, Roger Lancaster, Shaun Leonardo, K. Tsianina Lomawaima, Shoshana Magnet, Erica R. Meiners and Sarah Ross, Gean Moreno, Robert Morris, Robert S. Nelson, Isamu Noguchi, Otabenga Jones & Associates, Anthony Papa, Mary Patten, Laurie Jo Reynolds, Cameron Rowland, Jared Sexton, Rashad Shabazz, Sable Elyse Smith, Shawn Michelle Smith, Daniel tucker and Rosten Woo, Rebecca Zorach."--Page 4 of cover.
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references.
Contents
  • Director's Foreword, Contemporary Arts Museum Houston / Bill Arning -- Publisher's Foreword: Time Looting, [NAME] / Gean Moreno and Natalia Zuluaga -- Introduction: Opening the Door / Risa Puleo -- Ground / Risa Puleo -- Capture -- Flattening the Body: Biometrics and the Reduction of Identity / Shoshana Magnet -- Blackness, Animality, and the Unsovereign / Che Gossett -- I Become a Nisei / Isamu Noguchi -- Display -- Class is in Session with Lenox Ave's favorite street philosopher, Otabenga Jones Esq. / Otabenga Jones & Associates -- Evaluate -- Roundtable on Prisons and Psychiatry -- Classify -- The Map of Art History (Excerpt) / Robert S. Nelson -- The Mug Shot: A Brief History / Shawn Michelle Smith -- The Black Panther as African Cat: Mondo we Langa and Criminal Blackness / Ben Jones -- From Tactic to Demand: HIV Visibility within a Culture of Criminalization / Theodore Kerr --
  • Extract -- 9102000 / Cameron Rowland -- Chilocco Indian Boarding School: The Prison-to-Prison Pipeline / K. Tsianina Lomawaima -- Captivity, By Turns: A Comment on the Work of Ashley Hunt / Jared Sexton -- Prison Maps: What is the Prison Industrial Complex?, 2003 (insert) -- Store -- The Schematics of Control: Robert Morris's Philadelphia 'Labyrinth' and 'In the Realm of the Carceral' / Andy Campbell -- The Space of the Self: Robert Morris's 'In the Realm of the Carceral' -- Selections from 'In the Realm of the Carceral', 1978 / Robert Morris -- Figure / Risa Puleo -- Profile -- From Target to Testimony: Reflections on 'The Oakland Projects' / Unique Holland -- Arrest -- 'Defacement', 1983 / Chaédria LaBouvier -- "Can you be BLACK and Look at This?": Reading the Rodney King Video(s) / Elizabeth Alexander -- 'The Eulogy', 2017 / Shaun Leonardo -- Material Witness: Visual Evidence and the case of Eric Garner / David Joselit -- The Time of Torture and the Time of Reparation / Rebecca Zorach -- 'From the Speculative to the Living: Chicago Torture Justice Memorials', 2018 / Mary Patten --
  • Process -- 'Sgt. Kroll Goes to the Office', 2016 / Sam Gould -- Incarcerate -- Public Intimacy: Deana Lawson's 'Mohawk Correctional Facility' Series / Nicole R. Fleetwood -- "Sixteen" / Jimmy Santiago Baca -- Exit -- A Brief History of Sex Panic / Roger Lancaster -- Mike Kelley Paved My Way to Freedom / Anthony Papa -- Bridges / Risa Puleo -- Bridges -- "And What Happens to You Concerns Us Here": Imaginings for a (New) Prison Arts Movement / Erica R. Meiners and Sarah Ross -- "Walls Turned Sideways are Bridges": Carceral Scripts and the Transformation of the Prison Space / Rashad Shabazz -- Abolition Formats and Incompliance Aesthetics / Gean Moreno -- 'Mirror/Echo/Tilt' Curriculum / Melanie Crean, Shaun Leonadro, Sable Elyse Smith -- Reparations Won: A Case Study in Police Torture, Racism, and the Movement for Justice in Chicago (Curriculum Excerpt) -- 'The Knotted Line' (Curriculum Excerpt) / Evan Bissell and Ora Wise -- Tamms Is Torture: The Campaign to Close an Illinois Supermax Prison / Laurie Jo Reynolds and Stephen F. Eisenman -- 'WROL IRL', 2018 / Daniel Tucker and Rosten Woo -- Appendix.
Call Number
Sc F 19-331
ISBN
  • 9780984056651
  • 0984056653
LCCN
2018951457
OCLC
1086341635
Title
Walls turned sideways : artists confront the justice system / curated and edited by Risa Puleo.
Publisher
Houston, Texas : Contemporary Arts Museum Houston ; Miami, Florida : [NAME] Publications, [2018]
Copyright Date
©2018
Type of Content
text
still image
Type of Medium
unmediated
Type of Carrier
volume
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references.
Added Author
Hunt, Ashley. Prison maps. What is the prison industrial complex.
Puleo, Risa, curator, editor.
Alexander, Elizabeth, author.
Arning, Bill.
Contemporary Arts Museum (Houston, Tex.), issuing body, host institution.
Added Title
Prison maps. What is the prison industrial complex?
Research Call Number
Sc F 19-331
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