HOSTILE TERRITORY: between inside and out

Hostile Territory looks at windows.

The project traces the thin, slit-shaped windows of modern prisons to their architectural antecedents. Considering the modern prison’s relationship to pre-modern structures of defense, battle and worship, it studies the thresholds they draw between people, shaping their regulation, subjectivity, collectivity and vision.

Complicating the notion that the “birth of the prison” was during Modernity, as an enlightenment institution, Hostile Territory looks instead to their emergence from spaces of warfare — its architecture and its ideological production of “enemies” and “outsiders.”

In a series of photography, postcards and video from multiple continents, including North and South America, Pacific Islands, Western and Northern Europe, it includes an exhibition and a free newspaper of the same title.