MONDAY NIGHT LECTURE SERIES | HYPERBOLE: SENSE, SENSATION, SPECTACLE

Marking Time: Art in the Era of Mass Incarceration

APRIL 8 @ 6 P.M.
Daniel Family Commons, Usdan University Center

This presentation explores various aesthetic practices of incarcerated artists in U.S. prisons. It considers how furtive planning and collective tactics of appropriating items owned by the state, and claiming state resources and spaces, are maneuvered to make art. It focuses on how artists mix and create color; aestheticize legal documents; and use their carceral indexes to make art, calling these numerous and overlapping aesthetic and political practices “carceral aesthetics.”