Room with doors
1888 - 2020
1888 - 2020
Photographic 5-tych
Textile prints, 166 x 250 cm each
It was not possible to enter or leave the school unnoticed. The former classrooms were connected through a line of open doors, making each room interlinked and accessible to a clergyman who “sees through” the building and monitors all movements of pupils from one point of view. Influencing behaviour through the idea of being watched, the architecture of this “hallway-panopticon” is an educational system in itself. It teaches students how to conduct in response to this all-pervading observation.
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Textile prints, 166 x 250 cm each
It was not possible to enter or leave the school unnoticed. The former classrooms were connected through a line of open doors, making each room interlinked and accessible to a clergyman who “sees through” the building and monitors all movements of pupils from one point of view. Influencing behaviour through the idea of being watched, the architecture of this “hallway-panopticon” is an educational system in itself. It teaches students how to conduct in response to this all-pervading observation.
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Blueprint of the school building (1888), scan from Nederland naar School: Twee Eeuwen Bouwen voor Veranderend Onderwijs, NAI Uitgevers, (Rotterdam, 1996)
Room with doors (1888-2020) is part of the solo-exhibition
This Creaking Floor and All the Ceilings Below,
FOTODOK & Casco Art Institute: Working for the Commons,
Lange Nieuwstraat 7, Utrecht (NL)
06.03.20 - 14.06.20
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This Creaking Floor and All the Ceilings Below,
FOTODOK & Casco Art Institute: Working for the Commons,
Lange Nieuwstraat 7, Utrecht (NL)
06.03.20 - 14.06.20
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