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15 Minutes
of Fame
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Artist's note:
According to Correctional Service of Canada, there are 52 federally managed penitentiaries and 17 community correctional centres in Canada.
On a typical day there are 12,600 offenders in the institutions; 8,500 offenders supervised in the community by 71 parole officers.
There are 175 halfway houses across the country.
Federal offenders represent 5% of the total number of persons sentenced to custody in Canada and 6% of offenders in the community.
Canada spends $1.5 billion annually on the Federal correctional system. The annual cost of maintaining an offender ranges from $108,277 for maximum security to $41,583 in a community correctional centre with an overall average of $62,115.
One in three inmates is serving a sentence of more than ten years.
After serving a sentence the offender is deemed rehabilitated, to have paid his or her debt to society, and released back into the community.
If so many are, or have been, deemed 'socially unacceptable', what's wrong with society?
Do we "get as good as we give"?
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click on images for details and Book of Fame 2004 entries
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15 Minutes of Fame features: a bare prison bed; blanket, sheet & pillow; and a standard-issue prison suitcase containing assorted personal items.
Visitors are invited to:
- open the suitcase; consider, select and arrange items upon and around the bed to create a new installation - a personal artistic statement about incarceration - then:
- write about their installation in the Book of Fame, which is on site and open for everyone to read.
- present and discuss their installation with other visitors
Other visitors are invited to write comments about this and other installations in the Book of Fame.
Each installation remains on display for a maximum of 15 minutes
Installations are documented through digital photos and posted subsequently online.
15 Minutes of Fame was first exhibited in 2004
at Art Gallery of Algoma in Sault Ste Marie.
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presents
Amanta Scott
with
and
an interactive syncretic art installation
October 4th 2008
330 Bay St
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Parallel Lines is a collaborative venture between Amanta Scott and photographer John Davidson commencing as a series of guerrilla-style live solo performance ‘happenings’ around Toronto, captured through photography, culminating in an interactive Syncretic Art installation featuring:
- live ‘happenings’
- photographic & encaustic wall-sculpture exhibition
- interactive 15 Minutes of Fame installation
During the evening of Nuit Blanche Amanta Scott will be presenting impromptu performances, centred around the prison bed, integrating new music; movement; voice and text.
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