#Marking Time : Art in the Age of Mass Incarceration

[annerossart]

Still thinking about my visit to Cincinnati’s Freedom Museum last summer. I was able to see Marking Time: Art in the Age of Mass Incarceration.

Behind this glass reflective surface is stunning and beautiful work by George Anthony Morton, Mars, 2016, graphite and white chalk on paper, 19” x 24”

[kylo-wrecked]

[ olive ]  what gives you the most inspiration for your muse(s)?

{ from the colourful interview meme }

🫒 Talking to people. Listening to people. People watching.

Traveling, being in a car, on a train, in nature.

Reading and research sometimes do the trick. Art/museum exhibits, design/software expos. Sometimes, the pieces and displays I see, or the engineering of the exhibition and the use of the space itself, retroactively inspire.

Months and months after having seen Marking Time: Art in the Age of Mass Incarceration, having contacted some of the artists (MoMa PS 1 is for the people (mostly) and they keep some artists in residence/on contact), and having spoken with them, I realized Ex-Con!Ben is making art and just doesn't know it. To him, it's simply work and living.

Boy, do we have news for Ex!Ben about art.

@corinnebaileyrp

[beardedmrbean]

COLUMBUS, Ohio – An Ohio man won $45 million in a civil lawsuit against a police department and detective whose actions led to his wrongful conviction and more than 20 years behind bars.

Dean Gillispie sued Miami Township police and former detective Scott Moore for suppressing evidence and tainting eyewitness identifications in the 1991 rape and kidnapping case against Gillispie.

Gillispie was convicted in 1991 in Montgomery County and released from prison in 2011. The Ohio Innocence Project at the University of Cincinnati law school, former Ohio Attorney General Jim Petro and Dean's mother, Juana Gillispie, worked to free him and clear his name.

Today, Gillispie is 57, and lives in Fairborn, a suburb of Dayton.

"The horror inflicted on Dean and his family and community is hard to wrap your mind around," Ohio Innocence Project Director Mark Godsey said. "The way the authorities pushed through a conviction and then fought back and refused to admit a mistake was so disappointing. Nothing can repay Dean for the horror."

He added: "The jury's verdict sends a strong message that those in power need to change the way they do things."

"Justice prevailed in this case, although it took a long, long, long time for that to occur," said Petro, who co-authored a book with his wife Nancy about wrongful convictions.

David Owens, whose firm Loevy & Loevy represents wrongfully convicted clients and represented Gillispie, said they believe $45 million sets an Ohio record.

It is unclear if Miami Township or Moore will seek to appeal the case or when Gillispie might receive payment.

Gillispie steadfastly maintained his innocence from day one. In 2021, a Montgomery County judge declared Gillispie a wrongfully imprisoned person.

He was convicted in the rape and kidnapping of twin sisters in one attack and a third woman in a second attack. But the jury in the federal civil lawsuit found that Moore violated Gillispie's rights by hiding evidence that would have helped Gillispie's defense and creating unfair lineup procedures for the victims.

Moore claimed a witness had made an identification when she had not, and later told the victims that they might not recognize Gillispie in court because he “dyed his hair.” Evidence was also presented that Moore failed to disclose camping receipts showing Gillispie was in Kentucky when the crimes occurred, his attorneys said. 

No biological evidence ever tied Gillispie to the crimes.

While imprisoned, Gillispie turned to art across multiple mediums. It was an outlet for his pain and imagination of how life would've been different. In 2020, his artwork depicting a miniature model camping trailer was included in “Marking Time: Art in the Age of Mass Incarceration,” an exhibit at the Museum of Modern Art in New York City.

After his release, he bought and restored a camping trailer.

[play-bills]

Marking Time, Arts in the age of mass incarceration (with Jared Owens, George Anthony Morton, Gwendolyn Garth, Keith Calhoun and Chandra McCormick, Russell Craig, Mark Loughney, Gilberto Rivera, Sable Elyse Smith and Larry Cook), Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, Harlem NY (May 1 - December 4, 2023)

[trascapades]

🎨#ArtIsAWeapon

#NewExhibit

"Marking Time: Art in the Age of Mass Incarceration" - curated by @nifleetwood - opens at the @schomburgcenter today, May 1, 2023, 5PM.

📍515 Malcolm X Blvd, #NYC 10037

Reposted from @schomburgcenter Join us for the opening of our newest exhibition Marking Time: Art in the Age of Mass Incarceration, which explores the impact of the U.S. prison system on contemporary visual art.

This exhibition, presented across three galleries, will highlight artists who are or have been incarcerated alongside artists who have not been incarcerated but whose practices interrogate the carceral state.

Curated by Dr. Nicole R. Fleetwood, James Weldon Johnson Professor of Media at NYU, 2021 MacArthur Fellow, and former Schomburg Center Scholar-in-Residence.

To register, click on the link in our bio.

#SchomburgCenter #MassIncarceration #ArtAndTheCity #exhibition #EndMassIncarceration #BlackGirlArtGeeks

[inthegod]

「時を刻むということ　大量投獄時代におけるアート(Marking Time: Art in the Age of Mass Incarceration)」

[jgthirlwell]

I visited the monumental show at PS 1, Marking Time : Art in the Age of Mass Incarceration, which features works made by people in prisons and work by nonincarcerated artists concerned with state repression, erasure, and imprisonment. Here’s a selection of hundreds of drawings by Mark Loughney.

[lavenderlostfog]

Some Dark/Light Academia Recommendations

Books and Literature (Fiction) - The Sherlock Holmes canon (56 short stories + 4 novels) by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle - Agatha Christie's mystery novels - Emily Dickinson's poetry - Parable of the Sower by Octavia Butler - Mexican Gothic by Silvia Moreno-Garcia - A Series of Unfortunate Events by Lemony Snicket - The Inkheart Trilogy by Cornelia Funke - The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas - House of Leaves by Mark Danielewski - Nightbooks by J.A. White - The Girl with the Louding Voice by Abi Daré - Woman on the Edge of Time by Marge Piercy - Utopia by Thomas Moore - The Picture of Dorian Grey by Oscar Wilde - Miss Peregrine's Peculiar Children by Ransom Riggs - Faust by Goeth - The Bartimaeus Trilogy by Jonathan Stroud - I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou - The Island of Dr. Moreau by H.G. Wells - The Woman in Black by Susan Hill - A Deadly Education by Naomi Novik - Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro - The Necromancer by Ludwig Flammenerg - fairy tales and old folktales from any culture - books about beekeeping - Dragonology

Nonficiton Literature - Silent Spring by Rachel Carson - Let's Explore Diabetes With Owls by David Sedaris - Walden by Henry David Thoreau - The Utopia Reader, edited by Gregory Claeys and Lyman Tower Sargent - The Art of War by Sun Tzu - The Communist Manifesto by Friedrich Engels and Karl Marx - The Best American Science and Nature Writing - annual essay anthology published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt - The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness by Michelle Alexander - I Am Malala by Malala Yousafzai - Lab Girl by Hope Jahren - The Wages of Sin: Sex and Disease, Past and Present by Peter Lewis Allen - Poison: The History of Potions, Powders and Murderous Practitioners by Ben Hubbard - Monster, She Wrote: The Women Who Pioneered Horror & Speculative Fiction by Lisa Kröger and Melanie R. Anderson - Conversations on Writing by Ursula K. Le Guin

Films - Young Sherlock Holmes (1985) - Snowpiercer (2013) - Hugo (2011) - An Education (2009) - Never Let Me Go (2010) - Mr. Holmes (2015) - Little Women (2019) - Dead Poets Society (1989) - Maurice (1987) - The Addams Family (1991) - The Imitation Game (2014) - Road to Perdition (2002) - Matilda (1996) - The Shape of Water (2017)

Shows - Sherlock Holmes - the Granada series (1984 - 1994) - A Series of Unfortunate Events (2017 - 2019) - Penny Dreadful (2014 - 2016) - The Haunting of Bly Manor (2020) - The Curious Creations of Christine McConnell (2018) - Beauty and the Beast (1987 - 1990) - The Twilight Zone (1959 - 2020)

Animation - Over the Garden Wall (2014) - Gravity Falls (2012 - 2016) - The Owl House (2020 - ) - Jack and the Cuckoo-Clock Heart (2013) - Howl's Moving Castle (2004)

Anime and Manga - The Ancient Magus Bride by Kore Yamazaki - The Promised Neverland by Kaiu Shirai and Posuka Demizu - Gosick by Kazuki Sakuraba - Princess Tutu by Mizuo Shinonome - Little Witch Academia by Yoh Yoshinari - Violet Evergarden by Kana Akatsuki and Akiko Takase

Music - soundtracks from any of the above - dark cabaret - classical music (my favs are Vivaldi and Tchaikovsky) - modern classical - anything composed by Joe Hisaishi - Postmodern Jukebox

Podcasts - Lore - Faerie - Serial - The Magnus Archives - Hardcore History - The Penumbra Podcast - Baker Street Babes - The Bright Sessions - Unwell, a Midwestern Gothic Mystery

[strathshepard]

Jesse Krimes: Apokaluptein 16389067 (detail), 2010–2013 – from the MoMA PS1 show Marking Time: Art in the Age of Mass Incarceration. Mr. Krimes used hair gel on a spoon to transfer images from print media to prison bedsheets.

[blakegopnik]

AT PS1, CHANDRA McCORMICK DOCUMENTS THE ABSURD CRUELTIES  OF OUR PRISON SYSTEM

THE DAILY PIC is Chandra McCormick’s 2004 image of Daddy’O, the oldest prisoner at Angola penitentiary in Louisiana. It’s from “Marking Time: Art in the Age of Mass Incarceration,” at PS1, the great and disturbing show which will be the subject of this entire week’s worth of Pics.

One set of works in “Marking Time” simply documents the absurdities of the American prison system, which are so extreme they turn the most sober documentarian into an unwitting surrealist.

Regardless of his original crime, could this old man still be a threat to anyone on the planet? Could more years of punishment add to the punishment he’s already suffered in any meaningful way, or further deter anyone who is thinking of committing the same crime?

Keeping him in jail is purely about our society’s blood-thirst for revenge, which seems quite unquenchable. All the years of someone’s life barely seem to satisfy it.

Even a prison full of lives leaves our revenge unfulfilled: Most of Angola’s inmates will die there.

For a full survey of past Pics visit blakegopnik.com/archive.

[k00244990]

Halim Flowers

Autodidact, Halim A. Flowers (b. 1980, Washington, DC) visual artist, spoken word performer, businessman, and author of eleven published non-fiction works, is married to L. Patrice McKinney, raising a family in Washington, DC. A Member of the Board of Directors of The Frederick Douglass Project for Justice and Cultural DC, he is an ardent advocate for human rights and is best known for his quote, “Love is the Antibody”. In the short time since the Incarceration Reduction Amendment Act of 2016 effectuated his 2019 release from prison, he has created a stunning spectrum of paintings and spoken word comprised of a benevolent mission forged and galvanized over decades in a pressure cooker.

In 1997, as a minor, Halim A. Flowers was arrested and wrongfully sentenced to two life sentences in Washington, DC. His experiences aired on HBO in the Emmy award-winning documentary “Thug Life in DC”. Released under a new juvenile lifer resentencing law, Flowers’ 2019 freedom was documented by Kim Kardashian-West’s “The Justice Project” film. Upon release, he was awarded the Halcyon Arts Lab and Echoing Green fellowship awards. In 2020, Flowers’ TEDx Talk, “Criminal Justice Reform”, and his prolific production and exhibition of his visual art, e.g., The Museum of Modern Art’s “Marking Time: Art in the Age of Mass Incarceration” exhibit, continue to advance his mission to promote love among all humans. A beneficiary of Georgetown University’s Prison and Justice Initiative, Flowers studied Government, Philosophy, Reparations: African-American Literature, and English 101 in a mentorship with academic advisor, Professor Marc Morjé Howard (2018-2019). More recently, as a grant recipient from the Art for Justice Fund, Flowers was featured as a “Justice Ambassador” in the film “Halim’s Hope” (2020).

[loneberry]

Two online events this week

Artists Space Dialogues:

Jackie Wang with Nicole R. Fleetwood

Carceral Aesthetics and the Politics of Love

Conversation

November 10, 2020, 8pm

Join the event here

This series of Dialogues opens opens with Jackie Wang and writer, curator, and art critic Nicole R. Fleetwood discussing carceral aesthetics, the legacy of revolutionary prison arts programs, and the ways that penal space, time, and matter shape the production of prison art.. What kinds of worlds and images of freedom have been imagined by prisoners and those with loved ones in prison? What forms of care are embodied by social practices rooted in art-making? Fleetwood is Professor of American Studies and Art History at Rutgers University, New Brunswick. She curated the exhibition Marking Time: Art in the Age of Mass Incarceration, currently on view at MoMA PS1 following the release of her book by the same name, published by Harvard University Press.

More info:

https://artistsspace.org/programs/artists-space-dialogues-jackie-wang

More info: https://event.newschool.edu/jackiewang

[artlimited]

Collection Exhibition | Marking Time Art in the Age of Mass Incarceration https://www.artlimited.net/agenda/collection-exhibition-marking-time-art-in-the-age-of-mass-incarceration/en/7583684

[sffortheculture]

Running (SF/F)or the Culture, has been a dream come true for me, and I truly appreciate Queen Wahida for putting me in this space. Signing with a Black owned publishing house in and of itself was a big deal for me, it's such a rare and beautiful thing to be a part of. When I was asked to come on board and carry the banner ad Publisher/Editor for the sci-fi/fantasy imprint it was kinda like being invited to drive the Batmobile. Now it's my hope to be as universally cool, unapologetically Black, and a space for everyone willing to take the ride. To have started as an indie author, with a book and a dream, and to now find myself in this position ready to shake the literary world. Its almost like I'm living the trope in there coolest way. I feel like the proverbial farm boy meeting extraordinary circumstances in order to fulfil great destiny, and it's humbling.

I'm honored and elated that my series The Vanguard has been chosen to lead the way for the imprint, and I think it's a good banner for what we are trying to do. Just like The Vanguard, we see a blending of vibes, worlds and literary traditions to create sci-fi and fantasy that will scintillate and inspire. It's my goal that we amplify sci-fi and fantasy that fuel imaginations and inspire.

In Book I The Stand meets The Fires of Vengeance as diverse heroes battle the police state in a post collapse New England inner-city!

The Road to Resistance by Chase Bolling is probably one of the most BADASS books I’ve ever read.

-@courteneys_corner, Bookstagram

Okay. Even though dystopians/sci-fi/fantasies aren’t my top genre, let’s just say this book gave me LIFE in many ways.

-@BooksByJanee, Bookstagram

After weapons technology is mysteriously knocked back to the dark ages, America is plunged into chaos! Shades of the Black Wall Street Massacre, and the Trump Riots ensue when the president consigns everyone but the elite to mass incarceration, and forced labor! As martial law strikes a night of protests leads to riots, looting and revolution!

Chessed, an S.C.A loving ex-gang member, dons his armor, hefts his weapons, and declares war on corrupt cops, hate groups, and the nefarious powers of a hostile government! He and his allies must fight to survive if they are going to carve a post-apocalyptic Camelot from their embattled inner-city community!

Afrofuturism, epic fantasy, and dystopian science fiction combine for an unforgettable sword and soul thriller! Beautifully crafted world building brings us romance, conspiracy, and magic...blended with heart pounding action, as modern day knights of the round table arise from the crucible of poverty, police brutality, and street violence!

Inspired by books like The Red Knight and A Game of Thrones, The Road of Resistance Part 1 is a surefire hit for fans of Octavia Butler, Mark Lawrence, Milton Davis, and Brandon Sanderson! Read the novel hailed as 'Stirring, gritty, connected and epic. A great read!' by Christian Cameron today!

In Book II Power and Vikings meet The Hunger Games as the revolution continues with The Road of Resistance Part 2!

This book will have you turning pages all night. The fight scenes alone are so well choreographed they are breath-taking. I can see every sweep of the swords and axes and found myself wincing and jumping at the descriptions which evoked such vivid imagery.

The Road of Resistance is Black Lives Matter meets Vikings, but the Vikings are brothas, this time. And they are taking no prisoners.

-Audra, Between The Reads Podcast/Author of Blood Land

When Chessed set out to execute his SHTF plan with his homies, he never imagined that he would be walking the road to kingship. But with modern weapons extinct, and years of S.C.A. and historical African martial arts under their belt, he and his company of unlikely heroes find themselves at the helm of a fledgling nation called the Vanguard!

But as ultra-nationalists hate groups rise, building economies on human trafficking, and the governor wielding incredible new emergency powers sets his eyes on rebel cities; ridin' for the hood takes on an brand new meaning!

Chessed must unite survivors, refugees, and former street gangs into an army to stop this new onslaught of tyranny! Join the Vanguard and hold the line with a diverse cast of characters as the Vanguard marches to war!

Fans of Bernard Cornwell, Tochi Onyebuchi, Sarah J. Mass, and Marlon James, have a new favorite to add to their list! Bolling combines Afrofuturism with military science fiction and urban fantasy for a non-stop thrill ride!

In Book III some queens don't need a dragon to bring fire and blood!When weapons technologies were trapped in the dark ages, and a rogue American government turned on its own people, the Vanguard, a revolutionary, separatist kingdom, led by King Chessed of Bridgeport was born! But when Chessed is betrayed and presumed missing or dead, what will become of his fledgling kingdom?

In his absence, it's up to Khalise, first lady of the Vanguard, and mother of his children to take up her nation's banner, and don her crown! As she dispatches trusted bannermen to search for the king, she must overcome depression, loss, and anxiety to lead her people to victory! But a bloodthirsty occultist elite, and an onslaught of witches, wizards, psychics, and demonic forces make the task more dangerous than ever before in the afrofuturist, dark fantasy thriller The War We Make: The Vanguard 3!

As I work on The Vanguard V The Juneteenth Campaign I am excited to announce the Chronicle of the Unbroken is entering it's beta phase! Fresh off a jailbreak from a government black site in Sleepy Hollow, Chessed of the Vanguard is back in Chronicle of the Unbroken! While longing for a reunion with Khalise and his family, but first he must fight. Beside his fellow escapees Chessed must fight through a post-apocalyptic New York; ruled by a shadowy cabal of Federal High Constables, corrupt activist clergy, and a necromancy wielding special forces officer, in disguise as the leader of a terrifying street gang!

The secret origins of the rogue AI, AINI that stripped the world of modern weapons is revealed as Chessed must discover new allies if he has any hope of victory against insurmountable odds! Anybody interested in becoming a beta reader for my later project feel free to contact me on IG @Chase.Bolling.Author!

Just Battles, and Flawless Victories,

Chase of (SF/F)or the Culture

[fundgruber]

Tameca Cole. Locked in a Dark Calm. 2016. Collage and graphite on paper, 8 1/2 × 11". Collection Ellen Driscoll

“Art proliferates in prisons, and substantial collections exist inside cells, storage units, and classrooms of carceral facilities. Prison staff are also collectors of art made inside. Employees of prisons often commission incarcerated people to make art on their behalf and negotiate rates within the prison economy.“

Fleetwood, Nicole R.: Marking Time: Art in the Age of Mass Incarceration. 2020

[annerossart]

In Cincinnati this summer I was able to see Marking Time: Art in the Age of Mass Incarceration. This is artist Mark Loughney’s series of graphite and ink portraits of fellow inmates. “Pyrrhic Defeat” 2014-present. The title is perfect. I had to remind myself of the reference and the definition, as in, “Pyrrhic victory: a victory or goal achieved at too great a cost.” #markloughney