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The Ministry of Culture successfully completed the muzealization of the building, collaborating with Studio Terragni Architetti Como - New York, Studio XY comm, Milano, State Information Service, Archive of the Ministry of Interior, Albanian Telegraphic Agency, Albanian Institute for Persecuted People, Institute for the Studies of Communist Crimes and Consequences in Albania, The Albanian Rehabilitation Centre for Trauma and Torture, Albanian Human Right Project, Foundation Culture Europe, National Library of Albania, Central State Film Archive, Central State Archive, Klan National [...]
Final sector – Imperfect Past
“The past is never dead. It’s not even a past”. William Faulkner “To the extent that the past can indeed be overcome, this can be achieved only by telling what happened”. Hannah Arendt
Sector 08 : Panopticon – Panakustikon
It can be translated as “the place from where you can see and hear everything”. The other meaning of the first word, according to which the second was built is that of an ideal prison, conceived more than two hundreds years ago by the utilitarian philosopher Jeremy Bentham. The Utilitarian did not believe in the utopia of a perfect society. Communism was such a utopia. The claims to realize it brought society to a total control, similar to Bentham’s prison. [...]
Sector 07: Voices of the past
These are voices captured by electronic interception decades ago. But they cannot be a curiosity object. They come from the darkness, from the abyss. Regardless of their words, they are voices that invite for a reflection on the past. The transcription model of an interception made by State Security employees is shown in one of the rooms.