7 PM
Lecture by Theo Deutinger, architect and author, followed by a conversation with Finn Canonica, editor-in-chief of ‘Das Magazin’
Society in the twenty-first century displays an ever-growing desire for security. To fulfil this demand, governments and authorities have increasingly turned to order and control. The implementation of these laws and regulations takes the form of interventions that are not always – at least at first glance – recognisable as such.
Theo Deutinger’s ‘Handbook of Tyranny’ aims to lay bare the relationships between political power, territoriality and systematic restrictions. His contribution to the S AM exhibition ‘Under the Radar’ presents these connections using detailed, non-fictional illustrations: of walls, fences, jail cells, drones, police tactics and so on. These matter-of-fact technical drawings foreground the mechanisms of control that affect humans and animals in equal measure. At the same time, they mimick the visual language of bureaucracy, which is governed by laws and regulations and is, for this reason, seen as unchanging.
Language: German
Location: Ackermannshof, St. Johanns-Vorstadt 21, Basel
Admission: CHF 12 (red. CHF 8)
