Job Security: Voices and Views from the American Security Industry explores the people, places, and ideologies of the ever-expanding security industry and asks what we mean when we speak of security—Security for whom and by whom? The exhibition makes visible an eight-year collaborative research project by artist Danny Goodwin and writer Edward Schwarzschild inspired by their own experiences growing up with fathers who worked in security. Drawing on elements from their book, Job/Security: A Composite Portrait of the Expanding American Security Industry (MIT Press, August 2024), the exhibition features Goodwin’s black-and-white portraits, large-scale color photographs of security training facilities and tabletop models of restricted sites, and new video installations, alongside framed facsimiles of Schwarzschild’s redacted notebooks and interview transcripts with security personnel.
Job Security: Voices and Views from the American Security Industry is generously supported by the Office of the President, Office of the Provost, The University at Albany Foundation, the University at Albany Alumni Association, and the New York State Writers Institute.
Image credit:
Danny Goodwin, Rosterfield Motel, Cityscape Simulator, State Preparedness Training Center, Oriskany, NY (detail), 2019, archival pigment print, edition of 4, 44 x 55 inches, courtesy of the artist