MAXIMUM
SECURITY 1.
1981 . Overall: 10‚x21‚x45‚.Concrete block,
barbed wire, oil stick, lamb carcasses,plasticbags. During the
course of the
installation the lamb carcasses in the plastic bags decayed, formed
maggots and then hatched flies. Movement occurred in the bags.
The flies moved around in the bags. The entire wall of the gallery
were painted black and the words maximum security written on them.
Viewers stood in back of the concrete block wall topped with barb
wire and looked into a space which had two actual size cells drawn
on the floor.
MAXIMUM
SECURITY 3. 1983. Barbed wire, Marcel Breur chairs,
magazines, i.e. House Beautiful, In the Belly of the Beast, Space
Planning Standards for American Correctional Institutions, etc.PVC
tubing, sheet lead, animal skull, yellow line signifies the closest
a staff person can get to a maximum security cell, cardboard boxes,
black vinyl plastic,, denim clothingand mixed media. Overall dim.
9'x12'x28'
MAXIMUM
SECURITY 4. 1985. 8‚x4‚-6x10‚-3. Concrete
block, metal bars, metal bed frame, mattress, barbed wire, clock,
ceramic toilet and sink, audio tape of ambient sounds of prisons.
Cell based upon exact dimension of cell in San Quentin State Prison.