the rites of recognition

video art
2023

premiered at: Critical Legal Conference (UK), Sanctuary

Argumentation Conference (CZ), Performativity in Law

Recognition is a core element of restorative justice: to repair and heal is to recognize and to be recognised. Documented open-ended improvisation with dancer Márcio K. Canabarro and filmmaker Dániel Botos.

terra nullius

research residency 2022/3

supported by: Visegrad Fund
hosted by: Laznia Contemporary Art, Gdansk (PL)
artistic assistant: Mona Rena Groska

The research initiation stems from my observation that contemporary communities in Central Europe are experimenting with alternative living, driven by hopes towards a post-capitalist, post-nation state reality. Despite the endeavours, failures are commonly rooted in a shared reason: applying Roman law-rooted legal behaviour towards the land they inhabit, coming through disputes over traditional proprietary right claims.

The research has been melting critical legal thought, phenomenology and information harvested through embodied technologies. The final showing took the form of a performative ritual referring to procedural attributes of justice-making traditions. Consisting of a lecture and guided session with dancer Tatiana Dziewanowska, we aimed to make tangible the edges of our vertical relationship to land and experiment with embodied technologies.

Thanks to Gabó Barta of Terrapolis Tracal (HU) for the mini residency, Tatiana Dziewanowska for movement-based co-research, Mona Rena Grovska for artistic assistance

legal reparation

video art

Documented research material based on a dance improvisation and systemic constellations, visualising the effect of contemporary constitutionalism on material bodies.

collaborators:
Márcio K. Canabarro
Dániel Botos

2021
The Critical Inquiry Lab
Design Academy Eindhoven

seeking for legal remedy

text

2021
The Critical Inquiry Lab
Design Academy Eindhoven

thesis tutor: Patricia Reed

CASE NO.1. the Moon vs. Human Mankind

performance

In the history of Human Mankind, extractivism and coloniality have finally reached celestial bodies.

Seems to become a precedent, the Moon claimed its rights, sued Human Mankind for its colonialist acts, demanded to hinder its activities and repair the damage caused on the land, and rocks of its body.

Will a new wave of domination be disrupted?
How are humans going to connect to the consciousness of rocks, and extraterritorial bodies in the trial and in the future?

In the closing hearing of the trial, where the case and evidence provided by the parties are presented, the verdict is announced, and the public is invited to participate.

2020
The Critical Inquiry Lab
Design Academy Eindhoven

First Lunar Earthrise, Old and New
Image Credit: NASA/Ames Research Center/
Lunar Orbiter Image Recovery Project

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