Internal-Crit Ditties

Shaelena:

This is the documentary I was talking about: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Frvc1snhF98

It's somewhere between a jail and a hospital. Each inmate/patient is sent there for an indefinite amount of time. The place has its own currency, and the inmates/patients are rewarded upon good behaviour. They can then exchange their currency at the hairdressers, a video store and so on. There is this type of simulated freedom that gives them the opportunity to think, act and engage with others in a manner similar to the real world, whilst being constantly monitored, evaluated and subjected to decisions about their own freedom--from incarceration--that's beyond their control.

Oh and Dan Graham's sculptures and research on privatised (corporatised) public space and the thresholds of control. This is a nice (brief) interview http://www.jca-online.com/graham.html. I did write these on a piece of paper and I left it on your computer, not too sure if you got it.