Inside
Subtitle: artists and writers in Reading Prison
Contributors: Artangel (London, England)
Publisher: Artangel
Published: 2016
Place of publication: [London, England]
Language: eng
Number of pages: 26
Subjects: Influence; Imprisonment; Prisons; Prisoners; Biography; Modern Art; Exhibitions; Influence (Literary, artistic, etc.)
Other titles: Artists and writers in Reading Prison
Description: "HM Prison Reading opens for the first time to the public as artists, writers, and performers respond to its most notorious inmate: Oscar Wilde. Wilde's time in jail was devastating, the work produced in result enduring. Incarcerated in solitary confinement he wrote De Profundis, an extended letter to his lover Lord Alfred Douglas; on release he produced his last work, The Ballad of Reading Gaol. At this resonant site, the penal regime Wilde suffered is explored through archives, leading through to the installation of new works by artists such as Nan Goldin, Marlene Dumas, and Steve McQueen in the previously inaccessible -- or inescapable -- cells and corridors."--Publisher description.
Notes: Published in conjunction with an exhibition organised by Artangel and held at Reading Prison, 4 September - 30 October 2016.

Artists: Vija Celmins, Rita Donagh, Peter Dreher, Marlene Dumas, Robert Gober, Nan Goldin, Felix Gonzalez-Torres, Richard Hamilton, Roni Horn, Steve McQueen, Jean-Michel Pancin, Doris Salcedo, Wolfgang Tillmans, and Oscar Wilde.

Writers: Ai Weiwei, Tahmima Anam, Anne Carson, Joe Dunthorne, Deborah Levy, Danny Morrison, Gillian Slovo, Binyavanga Wainaina, and Jeanette Winterson.

Readers: Neil Bartlett, Ralph Fiennes, Kathryn Hunter, Ragnar Kjartansson, Maxine Peake, Lemn Sissay, Patti Smith, Colm Tóibín, and Ben Whishaw.