|
|
|
|
| 15 Minutes of Fame - Art Gallery of Algoma |
|
|
click on thumbnails for details . . .
|
|
|
|
|
|
15 Minutes of Fame premiered at the Art Gallery of Algoma, Sault Ste. Marie.
Open to the general public during a six- week exhibition, 15 Minutes of Fame was also presented in workshop events to women in shelters and youth from juvenile detention centres, as well as to school groups.
One juvenile delinquent returned to the gallery a week after his visit asking to ‘do’ another installation and include a photograph of himself and his family, which he felt should be placed in the empty picture frame found in the suitcase. Here was a kid who’d never been in an art gallery before in his life, who’d been moved to such a degree that he felt compelled to return and invest himself in the artwork.
|
|
|
15 Minutes of Fame
- an interactive installation created and facilitated by Amanta Scott, featuring:
• a bare prison bed (from the former Kingston Penitentiary for Women)
• a prison 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:
- present and discuss their installation with other visitors
- write about their installation in the Book of Fame,
which is on site and open for everyone to read.
- 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.
|
|
|
|
Artist's note:
According to Correctional Services 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.
|
|
|
|
|
|
copyright @ 2011 • All Rights Reserved • Amanta Scott • www.amantascott.com • Revised: Thursday, May 5, 2011
|
