Vito Acconci, Shaina Anand, Atelier Van Lieshout, Angela Bulloch, Chris Evans, Harun Farocki, Dan Graham, Group d'Information sur les Prisons, Mona Hatoum, Thomas Hirschhorn, Evan Holloway, Ashley Hunt, Elie Kagan, Multiplicity, Bruce Nauman, Tatiana Trouvé, Artur Zmijewski
Sixteen international artists become "inmates" in The Impossible Prison, an exhibition in an abandoned police station inspired by Michel Foucault's thoughts on power, control and surveillance.
The police station, which closed following the 1984 Miner's Strike, is part of the Galleries of Justice, a crime museum in Nottingham. Built into the cliff that runs through the city, it houses Her Majesty's Prison Service collection. With five subterranean floors of cells, courts and dungeons that date from 1375, it is a literal archaeology of punishment. Foucault described his own approach to history as 'archaeological'.
The Impossible Prison is the final instalment of Histories of the Present, Nottingham Contemporary's year-long programme of exhibitions and events in historical sites in and around Nottingham before moving into their own new building next year. Foucault has been an underlying inspiration. With The Impossible Prison his influence becomes explicit.
Sixteen international artists become "inmates" in The Impossible Prison, an exhibition in an abandoned police station inspired by Michel Foucault's thoughts on power, control and surveillance.
The police station, which closed following the 1984 Miner's Strike, is part of the Galleries of Justice, a crime museum in Nottingham. Built into the cliff that runs through the city, it houses Her Majesty's Prison Service collection. With five subterranean floors of cells, courts and dungeons that date from 1375, it is a literal archaeology of punishment. Foucault described his own approach to history as 'archaeological'.
The Impossible Prison is the final instalment of Histories of the Present, Nottingham Contemporary's year-long programme of exhibitions and events in historical sites in and around Nottingham before moving into their own new building next year. Foucault has been an underlying inspiration. With The Impossible Prison his influence becomes explicit.
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