Embodied Panopticism is a performative rendering of the lived experience as a surveilled female body. The panopticon, an architectural design of 18 and 19th century prisons in which open jail cells surround a central guard tower, has been heavily analyzed as a symbol of oppression and social control. Most famously, Michel Foucault argues that the surveillance used in the panopticon is a mechanism of political power and authority. This performance, done both in the gallery and public, consists of four one-way mirrors and a total of 18 hour long live reading of Foucault’s work. The performance aims to apply this philosophy to the female body. As I sit in the structure, surrounded by only my reflection, but aware of gaze being placed upon me, I enact the constant paranoia of voyeurism that is felt by female bodies in patriarchy and by prisoners in the panopticon.