Tony Fry

Prisons: Learning From the

Borderlands

The Studio at the Edge of the World/University of Tasmania

Lesson one: the abandonment of being - the example of Chega

Lesson two: the abandonment of being for the dispossessed the world is a prison

Villa Mermosa Prison - Cali

Lesson Three: Life is now lived in the World Panopticon

Lesson 4: cages grow larger and the abandoned become the criminalised displaced

The Borderland and the ‘in between’

Global borderland trends:

- Structural abandonment of underclasses

- Informal settlement and an illegal life

- Conflict and climate change displacement and criminalization of movement

- Ever increasing and overcrowded prison populations

- Ever increasing prison camps run by the same corporation that run prisons

- Ever increasing representation of underclasses in prison (eg USA) 1:15 ratio

Afro-Americans

- Globally ever more women are being imprisoned (50% increase since 2000)

- Increasingly prison staff are undertrained, overworked, underpaid, exposed to

disease and corrupt

Imperatives against business as usual

• A critical debate over ideas reactive to criticality and the glocal

• Strategies in time:

• The generation and valorisation of new kind of institution

Confronting reality in time

• Prison: transformation/abandonment/recreation* as the new institutionCampsCamps to Towns and Cities

• Post-nation zones of resettlement in an era of dispersed nations and megaregion hegemony

* Institutions of adaptive education: post-prison induction into creative ontologies able to form entrepreneurial collectives – An example

Tony Fry

Details at: http://www.thestudioattheedgeoftheworld.com/l-events.html

All idea presented here will be elaborated and developed at length, with other material, at a SEW/UTAS three week intensive learning event/workshop in

Launceston, Tasmania January 2-22, 2017