TIME INSIDE PROMO VIDEO 1 starring Zippy
TIME INSIDE PROMO VIDEO 2 starring Anna
DAY 1
08/07/2021
DAY 2
09/07/2021
FOR THE LIST OF ABOLITIONIST RESOURCE LINKS TO ARTICLES, BOOKS, PODCASTS, AND VIDEOS, PLEASE SCROLL DOWN.
TIME INSIDE
performance / human installation
@ REYKJAVIK FRINGE FESTIVAL 2021
The first thing to know about ‘Time Inside’ at The Reykjavik Fringe Festival is that you can know nothing about what happens in ‘Time Inside’ at The Reykjavik Fringe Festival. Nada. Zilch. Zero.
That's because it's A PERFORMANCE ABOUT PRISON ABOLITION SO REAL THAT TO TELL YOU ANYTHING WOULD RUIN THE REALNESS.
Ever wondered what it’s like to be a prisoner, an inmate, a jailbird, a con, a lag, a lifer, a nirk?
Wanna get a taste from the safety and comfort of your own theatre seat?
Time Inside is like time inside, it’s what you make of it …
The aim is not entertainment — it’s experience.
Alright alright … I’ll give ya a little taste of what happens in the show!
It show starts with these words:
Okay. So:
‘What do we do ... with all the serial killers ... you smart ass?’
The creator of what you’re about to experience is a prison abolitionist.
Which means they believe in the end of putting people in cages — forever, for ANY reason.
And the question,:
‘Okay, so. what do we do with all the serial killers ... you smart ass?’ ... is a common pushback.
Here’s the honest answer: ‘
‘No fucking idea, tough guy!’
Abolitionists don’t pretend to have all the answers, they just know that the current system does not work ... AT ALL.
The system may have you believe it’s there to save us from Hannibal the Cannibal, but, in reality, it mainly just further punishes human beings who’ve already had lives of abuse, trauma, poverty, lack of options, mental illness, and addiction, so end up doing what we call … ‘bad things’.
Abolitionists believe the constant threat of ‘criminals’ doing ‘bad things’ is by design, to prop up this world wide system of punishment, which they believe is just another system of control, no matter how humanely it’s done.
‘Bad people’ doing ‘bad things’ — as seen on the news — keeps us constantly scared, even as crime falls ... It keeps us believing the only way to deal with all this ‘evil’ is for our faceless government bureaucrats to take revenge IN OUR NAME.
But fear and vengeance does nothing to heal our hearts ... it only blackens our souls. Even worse when we hand the power over to those lawyers and judges and prison wardens who have no interest in healing.
Abolitionists believe that just like when we accepted slavery as normal, accepting a system where we dismiss other human beings as ‘criminals’ ... and throw them away ... corrupts ALL of us, everywhere, every single day, whether we think about the cages or not.
Abolitionists believe we can take back control, do better, make a more humane and just society.
We like cage free eggs, so why not cage free humans?!
The last thing the creator of this piece wants you to know is that, when they were a baby, their mother went to prison ... for 6 months.
To this day, decades later, their mother is still too traumatized to talk about what it was like ... to spend ...
… Time inside.
Thursday July 8, 18:00-19:00
Friday July 9, 18:00-19:00
Ticket price: kr1500
Please note:
To enter the theatre you will need to check in your mobile phone and other items such as tablets and laptops, all which will be safely secured.
RESOURCES TO GET YOU ALL INTERESTED AND MAYBE FIND AND JOIN A LOCAL ABOLITIONIST ORGANIZATION!
ARTICLES
- Prison Studies: 10.35 Million People are in Prison Around World.
https://www.prisonstudies.org/news/more-1035-million-people-are-prison-around-world-new-report-shows
- NBC News: Mariame Kaba wants us to imagine a future without prisons
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/nbcblk/mariame-kaba-wants-us-imagine-future-without-prisons-n1258586
- New Internationalist: Should Prisons be Abolished?
https://newint.org/features/2020/02/10/should-prisons-be-abolished
- The Guardian: Prison Abolition Impossible? It Once Felt Inevitable.
https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2017/6/19/15764176/prisons-abolition-alternatives
- Independent: Why Prison Should be Abolished.
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2018/may/19/prison-abolition-america-impossible-inevitable
- Vox: The Case for Abolishing Prisons.
https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2017/6/19/15764176/prisons-abolition-alternatives
- The New York Times: If Prisons Don’t Work, What Will?
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/04/05/opinion/mass-incarceration-sentencing-reform.html
- The Marshall Project: What Do Abolitionists Really Want?
https://www.themarshallproject.org/2019/06/13/what-do-abolitionists-really-want
- The Nation: What is Prison Abolition?
https://www.thenation.com/article/archive/what-is-prison-abolition/
- The Good Men Project: Let’s Abolish Prison, Not Reform It.
https://goodmenproject.com/ethics-values/lets-abolish-prison-not-reform-it/
- The New York Times: Yes, We Literally Mean Abolish the Police.
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/12/opinion/sunday/floyd-abolish-defund-police.html
- Rolling Stone: Six Ideas for a Cop-Free World.
https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/police-brutality-cop-free-world-protest-199465/
- ICPR: Prison: Evidence of it’s Use and Overuse Around World.
https://www.prisonstudies.org/sites/default/files/resources/downloads/global_imprisonment_web2c.pdf
BOOKS
- Mariame Kaba: We Do This ’til We Free Us: Abolitionist Organizing
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/56019003-we-do-this-til-we-free-us
- Michelle Alexander: The New Jim Crow
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6792458-the-new-jim-crow
- Danielle Sered: Until We Reckon
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/42759711-until-we-reckon
- Monique W. Morris: Pushout
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/25159334-pushout
- Maya Schenwar & Victoria Law: Prison by any Other Name
https://www.goodreads.com/en/book/show/48734385-prison-by-any-other-name
- Angela Davis: Are Prisons Obsolete?
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/108428.Are_Prisons_Obsolete_?
- Howard Zehr: The Little Book of Restorative Justice
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/668125.Little_Book_of_Restorative_Justice
- Michel Foucault: Discipline & Punish — The Birth of the Prison
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/80369.Discipline_and_Punish
- Victoria Law: Resistance Behind Bars
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6125091-resistance-behind-bars
- John Pfaff: Locked In — The True Causes of Mass Incarceration
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/29502356-locked-in
- Alex S. Vitale: The End of Policing
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/35403039-the-end-of-policing
- Rebecca Solnit: Hope in the Dark
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/28048.Hope_in_the_Dark
- Johann Ari: Chasing the Scream
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/22245552-chasing-the-scream
- Bessel van der Kolk: The Body Keeps the Score
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18693771-the-body-keeps-the-score
SITES
- MPD150 / Resources
https://www.mpd150.com/resources/
- Transform Harm
- Survived and Punished
https://survivedandpunished.org/
- Incite
- The New Inquiry
https://thenewinquiry.com/
SINGLE PODCASTS
- NBC News: Thinking About How to Abolish Prisons with Mariame Kaba
- The Appeal: Justice in America Episode 19 — What Justice Could Look Like
https://theappeal.org/justice-in-america-episode-19-what-justice-could-look-like/
- The New Yorker Radio: A World Without Prisons
https://www.newyorker.com/podcast/political-scene/what-would-a-world-without-prisons-be-like
- On the Media: Understanding the Social Movement Cycle
https://www.wnycstudios.org/podcasts/otm/segments/understanding-social-movement-cycle-on-the-media
- Invisibilia: World With No Fear
https://www.npr.org/2015/01/16/377517810/world-with-no-fear
- You’re Wrong About: Stranger Danger
https://open.spotify.com/episode/3xO7IjAKz7o7F4r5aYCC66
- Fresh Air: Prisons Make Mental Illness Worse
- Dan Carlin’s Hardcore History: Ep 61 (BLITZ) Painfotainment
https://open.spotify.com/episode/1LNj8AMxghgF8IWAy52yZ8
- For the Wild: Mariame Kaba on Moving Past Punishment /151
https://forthewild.world/listen/mariame-kaba-on-moving-past-punishment-151
SERIES PODCASTS
- On the Media Projects: Repairing Justice
https://www.wnycstudios.org/podcasts/otm/projects/repairing-justice
- The On Being Project: Restorative Justice
https://onbeing.org/libraries/restorative-justice/
- Behind the Bastards: Behind the Police
https://open.spotify.com/show/0rOatMqaG3wB5BF4AdsrSX
- Headlong: Running From Cops
https://open.spotify.com/show/4fhkBveQz80Bb3X5A6FB0Q
- Scene on Radio: Seeing White
https://www.sceneonradio.org/seeing-white/
THEMED PODCASTS
- Soundcloud: Two Sides of Justice
https://soundcloud.com/2sidesofjustice
- Podcast Review: 8 Podcasts to Help You Imagine a World Without Police or Prisons
https://podcastreview.org/list/podcasts-on-police-and-prison/
- Feedspot: Top 15 Prison Podcasts You Must Follow
https://blog.feedspot.com/prison_podcasts/
EXTENSIVE LIST OF FILMS & DOCUMENTARIES ON RESTORATIVE JUSTICE
European Forum for Restorative Justice: Films & Documentaries
https://www.euforumrj.org/en/films-and-documentaries
VIDEOS
- Officer Tries to Explain Prison to Kids | The Citizen's Handbook
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0S1o7DPHGSE&t=1s
- We Do This 'Til We Free Us | Haymarket Books
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xWL9a1f9uW0&t=2s
- We Are All Criminals | Emily Baxter | TEDxUNG
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qkpzNxVUfkM&t=596s
- Restorative Justice: Why Do We Need it? | BRAVE NEW FILMS
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8N3LihLvfa0&t=46s
- The Fallacy of Prison Reform | Angela Davis
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LfnbnTs0r-M&t=30s
- World Without Prisons | Tania Sawicki Mead | TEDxWellington
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7hlkHov5grs&t=1s
- Bad Behavior Won't Stop With Punishment | Adam Foss | TEDxSuffolkUniversity
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=inv89j3VYVc
- Abolishing Prisons | Maya Schenwar | TEDxBaltimore
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JFTRn_sIGiQ&t=67s
- The Cop and the Ex-Criminal: The Power of Restorative Justice | Dan Donlin & Tyler Auck | TEDxUMary
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mUeexmVD_-E&t=45s
- End Mass Incarceration | Shannon Sliva | TEDxMileHigh
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wPA-p6UUDl4&t=43s
- Recovering from Crime – Restorative Justice in Action
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DUyzjeOrwnw&t=186s
- Reina Gossett + Dean Spade (Part 1-3): Prison Abolition / Abolition Everyday / Dangerous People?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XDQlW1uJ8uQ&t=9s