Recording Carceral Landscapes

Documented here are a number of projects developed over the course of the Recording Carceral Landscapes investigation. The Following Piece consists of a series of “spy” missions into sites associated with the Prison Industrial Complex, from the supermax unit at Pelican Bay State Prison to the headquarters of the California Correctional Peace Officers Association, and from the corridors of government in Sacramento to the halls of finance at Siebert, Branford, Shank, and Co. The Prison Infiltration and Surveillance Suit is a collection of hidden recording technologies embedded within a work suit. Silence captures the sounds from within the recesses of the country’s first supermax prison, and the PIC Diaries is a collection of media produced and interpreted over the course of the Recording Carceral Landscapes project. Finally, the Prison Reclamation Project is a collaboration with a group of progressive architects to imagine alternative uses for existing prisons.