One Day I (video, 2025)
Central to Franz Kafka’s The Trial (1925/1995), but with a rich cultural life beyond it, the trope of waking up one day on the “wrong side” of the law presents law’s violence as occasional and unexpected, an aberration to an otherwise well-oiled machine of justice. It thus obscures and inures us to the banal violence that police, courts, and lawyers perpetuate daily against individuals and populations who find themselves perpetually – not just “one day” – on the wrong side of the law.
Challenges the centrality of sovereignty in our political and juridical imaginations. Curating Community is a book for academics, artists, curators, and constitutional designers interested in legacies of violence, transitional justice, and democracy.
Exploring nationalist narratives to a live musical score. Join a boy scout, a drama teacher and some haunting shadows, as this one woman show provides a how-to-guide to historical and contemporary forms of imperialism, colonialism and what it means to be Canadian.
Written, produced, and performed by Stacy Douglas