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Avery F. Gordon was invited by the artist Ines Schaber to, collaborate on her project for dOCUMENTA (13), titled The Workhouse. In this notebook, Gordon is engaged in a portrait of Breitenau, the twelfth-century Benedictine monastery, located twenty kilometers south of Kassel, that has been used throughout its history for various purposes, and since the nineteenth century has been a site of confinement and correction. Turned into a workhouse in 1874, it subsequently became a concentration camp in Nazi years, then a girls reformatory until the 1970s, and is now an open psychiatric residential treatment facility and a rehabilitation center, as well as a Gedenkstätte memorial and research center. During a site visit with Schaber, Gordon, with the help of the memorial s cofounder and director Gunnar Richter, immerses herself in Breitenau s history and recalls its function as a place for the enclosure of disobedient social subjects and their ideas, developing a kind of encyclopedia of the prisoner.

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Book category Books in English The arts Art treatments & subjects Exhibition catalogues & specific collections

• Full title: Avery F. Gordon
• Author: Avery Gordon
• Language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 28
• EAN: 9783775728904
• ISBN: 3775728902
• ID: 05042501
• Publisher: Hatje Cantz
• Weight: 48 g
• Dimensions: 147 × 210 × 6 mm
• Date of publishing: 27. December 2011

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