“Though at polar extremes in terms of public engagement, class eligibility, and civic pride, prisons and museums are in many ways complementary structures, employing related spatial tactics to secure and array problematic citizens or priceless treasures, while orchestrating public awareness of both. Outside general discussions of ‘stealth architecture’ and the ‘Bilbao effect,’ little has been documented in this twinning of surveillance and spectacle within contemporary urban renewal. Corrections and Collections reports back on these newly proximate architectures for the beautiful and the damned.”
“Relief models from the SCI-Arc exhibition (Blow x Blow), each combining a museum and prison plan, also found a new site at a group show, Residence, at Track 16 Gallery in 2011. There, the reliefs were hung beside a safe door, a more emphatic prelude to Day’s Corrections & Collections: Architectures for Art and Crime (Routledge, 2013).”
- Jane McFadden, “Friends of Friends,”
Forays by Joe Day