Title: Control Order House
Artist: Edmund Clark
Here Press
21 x 29 cm
128 pages
512 colour photographs
Softcover
Perfect bound
Design by Ben Weaver
Second edition
2017
ISBN: 978-0-9935853-1-9
In 2011, Clark was the first artist to work and stay in a house in which a man suspected of involvement with terrorist-related activity was placed under a Control Order in the UK.
“Control Order House” explores this form of detention through photographs and architectural representations of the house, and the handwritten diary of the man known only as CE. The book includes redacted documents relating to CE’s case. Clark’s implication in the process is further revealed through his correspondence from the Home Office, which makes clear the control and censorship imposed on his work inside the house. Any material could become part of CE’s case.
- From the publisher’s website
In 2011, Clark was the first artist to work and stay in a house in which a man suspected of involvement with terrorist-related activity was placed under a Control Order in the UK.
“Control Order House” explores this form of detention through photographs and architectural representations of the house, and the handwritten diary of the man known only as CE. The book includes redacted documents relating to CE’s case. Clark’s implication in the process is further revealed through his correspondence from the Home Office, which makes clear the control and censorship imposed on his work inside the house. Any material could become part of CE’s case.
- From the publisher’s website
