The natural law governs, while human-made laws are tools we create to mirror, commit to, and participate in these laws.
In my artistic and design life, I strive to create living systems that reconnect the human community to the natural laws that govern life.
A body of artistic research, ritual, and system design exploring how law, land, and living systems shape one another.
A protocol to eliminate legal waste from Earth bodies
2025
Applying the protocol helps the practitioner to self-diagnose where the separation from land lives in their body and offers practical steps to reconnect with what has been forgotten. This protocol was born from a co-creative relationship with Dandelion, who took me by the hand and guided me through the wisdom weeds, contact with wild gardens and their savage guardians, shamanism, and the wisdom of the body of Earth.
system design
NAO is a transnational initiative exploring how systemic constellations, systems thinking, shamanism, technology, and embodied practices can inform the design of resilient and adaptive organisational structures. My work focuses on co-developing an Earth-based system for identifying and transforming systemic tensions by uncovering their root causes, while supporting collective learning and organisational resilience.
circle lecture
photo: Bartek Banka
Dandelions emerged as part of a co-creative trajectory I was guiding in 2022. Being entangled for more than two years, along the axis from the Carpathian Basin to the Baltic seashores—it was the dandelion that taught me, she who wove the thread connecting how human-made law shapes our relationship to land.
My learning with dandelions culminated in a protocol wherein, in my capacity as a jurist, I performed a symbolic act: transferring the legal power I had received from the nation-state through my practice.
During the session, we will collectively engage with this protocol. I am inviting participants to first self-diagnose where obsolete structures hide within and then to softly guide the birth of their own relationships with dandelions. By drinking dandelion root tea together, we invite the presence of dandelions into our inner landscapes. By drinking the tea together, we activate our relationship to dandelions and create space for a new legal order to emerge.
contact improvisation workshop
co-facilitated with Arash Khakpour
This is a meeting place for our heart-body, through contact improvisation. Dandelions nourish the kinship network through their interconnectedness and entangled systems of generosity. Dandelion's spirit of receptivity and independence inspires the direction of our exploration within the practice of Contact Improvisation. By tasting the dandelion root tea, we invite the participants to indulge in the sensorial relation with the plant and in dancing with the other.
Through inviting the spirit of Dandelion as a third partner in the dance, Viktória and Arash facilitate a new space of discovery to identify, dance with, and maybe even integrate the untouched parts of ourselves. Through giving attention and inviting the unconscious internal tendencies that we carry and allowing them to become conscious, we envision a future that allows for the integration of new relational ways of becoming.
ritual design and facilitation
co-facilitated with Katalin Bitó
photo: Laura Szekeres
2025
In many Indigenous legal traditions, kinship is the law. The law is relationship. I was invited to design and facilitate a ritual for the Bábel community. We centred the ritual around building a fence that would offer shade to a rhubarb plantation. Earlier that summer, a wild storm had torn down a poplar tree. Its fallen body became the material for the fence.
We welcomed fifty people into an opening circle next to the dead body of the poplar. We drank rhubarb tea in gratitude for the plant and, in the name of reciprocity, formed a living line across the 100-meter-long distance between the dead poplar tree and the rhubarb plantation. In silence, in repetition, we passed the branches of the tree along the line until the fence was complete—until shade finally arrived for the rhubarb.
legal costume
design: MONA RENA
2024
When sitting in Gdansk, on the 8th of March, celebrating our friendship woven by our meeting through dandelions, MONA RENA asked me why I asked her to give a new design for my legal appearance.
Rethinking legal costumes has been a long-held dream of mine in my journey of exploring the ritualistic elements of contemporary law, and the legal environment we live in. I've always believed that law is performative. That law shapes reality and affects through performance. I found myself gravitating towards this question the most in my inquiries, where I constantly ask what the laws, sourced from the body of the earth, look like.
Laws rooted in Earth, instead of the fictional character of the state.
What type of gestures, rituals, and costumes did these laws require in indigenous cultures? What do they require from us today? Because the costumes of today's lawyers demonstrate state power: lawyers embody the authority of the state through what they wear, and I wondered—what would a legal costume look like if it held the authority of the Earth instead of the state?
I dreamed of a new costume, and that dream led me to you, and now together, we created the Hecate dress, a symbol of the Dandelion and its roots, which is daring to penetrate the deepest layers of the soil, is resilient, and generous with other plants and animals.
Hecate is becoming, by every legal ritual, a costume for Earth-based laws, for regenerative authority, and for a future that is already speaking.
mixed-disciplinary research together with Aleks Borys (PL)
supported by Nature of Us
shown at: Bazaar Festival 2025
2025 – ongoing
The Agency of Amber, a research project by Viktória Kaslik and Alex Borys, bridges choreography and legal theory: building on participatory choreographic experiments, it explores how kinetic connections with the landscape, natural elements, and celestial bodies can shape legal and ecological thinking.
video art
Collaborators: Márcio K. Canabarro, Dániel Botos
The Critical Inquiry Lab, Design Academy Eindhoven
2021
Documented experiment based on dance improvisation and systemic constellations, exploring the effects of hierarchy on social bodies.