Research Catalog

Title

Solitary / [Tyler Coburn, editor].

Publication

[Berlin, Germany] : Sternberg Press, [2022]

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Additional Authors

Coburn, Tyler, 1983-

Description

132, 139 pages, 8 pages of plates : black and white illustrations; 19 cm.

Summary

"Solitary is a collection of texts written at a wellness center in South Korea designed as a mock prison. This facility is run by an organization called Happitory--a combination of "Happiness" and "Factory." Happitory offers retreats for teenagers, company employees, government officials, and the general public. Some sessions involve drama therapy, others are led by Buddhist monks. Most intriguing is a program called "Solitary Confinement," where one can spend twenty-four hours of technology-free time locked in an individual cell. To create Solitary, artist Tyler Coburn commissioned ten practitioners (including himself) to spend time in solitary confinement at this wellness center, where they produced texts using the materials on hand. Certain questions drove their writing. How does one square the relaxation promised by Happitory with the way solitary confinement functions in actual prisons? What types of thinking and writing become possible through its restrictions--no book, no Internet, just writing materials? How might the emphasis on writing relate to texts by Oscar Wilde, Antonio Gramsci, Kim Dae-jung, Shin Young-bok, and others produced during periods of imprisonment?"--Publisher's website.

Subject

• Solitary confinement
• Creative writing

Note

• Bound tête-bêche

Language (note)

• Text in English and Korean

Contents

Tyler Coburn -- Kyungmook Kim -- Jiwon Yu -- Woochang Lee -- Sunjin Kim -- Jaeyeon Chung -- Russell Mason -- InYoung Yeo -- Hyunjeung Kim -- Min Kyoung Lee

ISBN

• 9783956796395
• 395679639X

OCLC

• on1346779028
• 1346779028
• SCSB-14472455

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries