Publisher's Synopsis
With contributions by: Tzion Abraham Hazan, Sabine Mueller-Mall, Jonas Staal, Zoltán Kékesi, Szabolcs KissPál and Máté Zombory, Michal Heiman, Lawrence Abu Hamdan, Avi Feldman, Hila Cohen-Schneiderman, Milo Rau, and Avidgor Feldman. Guest Editor: Avi Feldman Imagine Law, issue number 28 of OnCurating, has been conceived with the intention of inquiring into the relation between law and art as it is manifested in a variety of recent artistic and curatorial projects and legal writings. Based on the notion that the law holds an abiding influence on all terrains of society, our aim was to unravel tactics and mechanisms used by art and legal practitioners a like as they deconstruct, reconstruct, and appropriate legal matter and form. The collection of texts and images assembled together in the journal manifest an exploration of politics and art as it is approached through a legal perception. We aspired to decipher ways in which artists, curators, and legal scholars tackle politics as a sphere in which contested areas are negotiated, leading to administrative ordering and laws. With contributions by legal scholars, artists, and curators, we set out to re-explore their own relation to law and the complexity of administrative and policy making, in an attempt to formulate anew the role law has had and continues to hold in their work, research, and creation. The law's immense power to direct, authorize, and legitimize social relations and institutions is therefore interrogated, underscored, and reflected upon throughout the journal as we trace and map law's evolving definitions, concepts, and practices in contemporary art and legal scholarship.
