Solitary
| Author | Tyler Coburn, ed |
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| Publisher | Sternberg Press |
| ISBN | 9783956796395 |
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Solitary is a collection of texts written at a wellness center in South Korea designed as a mock-prison. This facility is run by an organization called Happitory—a combination of “Happiness” and “Factory.” Happitory offers retreats for teenagers, company employees, government officials, and the general public. Some sessions involve drama therapy, others are led by Buddhist monks. Most intriguing is a program called “Solitary Confinement,” where one can spend twenty-four hours of technology-free time locked in an individual cell. To create Solitary, artist Tyler Coburn commissioned ten practitioners (including himself) to spend time in solitary confinement at this wellness center, where they produced texts using the materials on hand. Certain questions drove their writing. How does one square the relaxation promised by Happitory with the way solitary confinement functions in actual prisons? What types of thinking and writing become possible through its restrictions—no book, no Internet, just writing materials?
| 278 p, ills bw, 12 x 20 cm, pb, English |
Sternberg Press
