Panopticon, 360° Recording of 1360 Single images, Tuesday 14. July 21:42 – Wednesday 15. July 5:48
from the watchtower of Justizvollzugsanstalt JVA prison, Mannheim.
200 x 700 cm, 2015
Panopticon, 360° Recording of 1360 Single images, Tuesday 14. July 21:42 – Wednesday 15. July 5:48
from the watchtower of Justizvollzugsanstalt JVA prison, Mannheim.
200 x 700 cm, 2015
7.2 Violence and Destruction – Kunstverein Ludwigshafen, Panoptikon, 200 x 700 cm, 2015
7.2 Violence and Destruction – Kunstverein Ludwigshafen, Panoptikon, 200 x 700 cm, 2015
Panopticon JVA, 2015
360° recording from the watchtower of the correctional facility
1360 single images, recorded with computer-controlled SLR camera,
July 14, 21:42 to July 15, 5:48, 2015
Panopticon JVA shows a correctional facility in Mannheim, whose layout conforms to Jeremy Bentham’s panopticon. Due to the intervention of a politician, who feared the inmates might object to the camera, Spinatsch was only allowed to record at night. The panorama was recorded from the watchtower, the geometrical as well as strategic center of the facility. For one night, the technical equipment of the artist replaced the guard and occupied the control room.
In the permanently burning artificial light, there are almost no traces of humans, apart from what the cleaners have left behind. Time seems annulled. Or only just almost as on the very right a blue shimmer of daylight enters through the windows.
There are two versions of Panopticon JVA. Version 1 is a site-specific panorama installation. Version 2 is a framed inkjet print with production details and the daily schedule of the correctional facility printed on the white border. Panopticon JVA work was later incorporated in a new work, Inside the Digital Panopticon.