534-538 Congress St
Portland, ME 04101
USA
The connection between care and control seems most evident in the monitoring that occurs inside the family. However, the shape of the family — often defined as a private sanctuary, a refuge separate from the external world — is also regulated and determined by the outside. – Sophie Hamacher
Join us for a talk between artist Sophie Hamacher and writer and prison abolitionist Keeonna Harris on the occasion of the release of Supervision: On Motherhood and Surveillance, published by MIT Press and Orbis Editions.
The talk is part of the Spotlight Lecture Series with the Portland Public Library.
Sophie Hamacher is an artist, teacher, and curator whose work concerns media, technology, and the archive. She attended the Whitney Independent Study Program for Critical Studies and is Assistant Professor of MFA and Academic Studies at Maine College of Art & Design in Portland, Maine. Sophie Hamacher’s project Supervision: On Motherhood and Surveillance was awarded an American Rescue Plan Maine Project Grant.