Please hold – a legal fiction
Photo credit: Louise Herrche Serup, HAUT and YC FESTIVAL 2023.
Focusing on the power dynamics within bureaucracy, this artistic research attempts to expose the performative objectivity and inherent threat of violence. The artists Karoline C. Holland, Denise Lim and Armin Hokmi are interested in the false dichotomy between public and private, and the paradox that something as boring as bureaucracy can be related to so much intense emotion and taboo. Visually they want to mimic the distinct aesthetics of formality, but also verbally - since they plan on “staging” legal text. They walk on a thin line between formality and taboo in a sensual role-play they call a “legal fiction”...
Link to text by Elia-Rosa Guirous-Amasse for Bad to the bone magazine