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What does it mean ”to punish”? “to isolate”? ”to reintegrate”?
Every word from this list is an attempt to awake some Dinosaur-God: The Law, that comes from the outer space, alienated from any local structures of experiences and interrelations of wills, The World divided into the “outside” and the ”inside”, into the biggest and smallest parts, into the center and periphery. The Society which tries to subjugate and assimilate any sense, thought and action that could be interpreted in some way through one-or-another recognized communication-style into its networks of quasi-voluntary or non-voluntary connections, relations and solidarities.
Those Gods are really being awaken every time when the words ”crime”, ”police”, ”legality”, ”court” and ”prison” could be heard from somewhere.
But how it could be actually can tried a non-awakening of them? What kind of tactics and tricks can be used to avoid calling those – and many other total social ideas and structures produced by those ideas?
The nature of a phenomenon often describes itself most clearly in its ultimate manifestations. Prison system is one of those ultimate manifestations of power relations threading through the whole body of social communications.
So the story about prison, about imprisonment, about resistance – both personal and collective, active and passive, escapist and involved – is the story of everyone's perpetual experience, and the critique of that type of an institution is a critique of all the social space.
Curatorial performance at the opening of the first anarchist exhibition in Finland at Make Your Mark Gallery. 5th of September 2014.
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