Control over body in prison architecture: Spatial extremities

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The research contains two consecutive phases: Profiling institutions of control over the body and studying the spatial extremities in prison architecture through the narrative medium of comics. The outcome of the first phase includes documented files from four different institutions: prisons, zoos, refugee camps, and police stations. The second phase, on the other hand, mainly focuses on the first institution, the prison. The use of comics unveils the architectural qualities in an empirical sense through sequential frames. Those frames are ordered anachronic, simultaneously implying various conditions extracted from the research.

 

The viewers follow the body through varying conditions of architectural spaces. Although the project contains distinct references, they are gathered in the same universe with a similar language. Piranesi’s Imaginary Prisons (1749-50), Jeremy Bentham’s Panopticon (1791), and Gabu Heindl’s Out in Prison (2011) are examples of these references.