The article explores the concept of extralegality, highlighting its implications in the context of undocumented immigrants and legal injustices worldwide. It reflects on how contemporary laws often serve the interests of the ruling class and discusses the erosion of human rights in various regions. The Berlin Biennale's theme emphasizes artistic practices that confront legal fallibility, with an interview featuring curator Zasha Colah addressing the notion of "foxing," whereby art can challenge unjust laws and foster cultural dialogue about legality beyond the binary of right and wrong.
The term "extralegality" gets at something beyond the legal-illegal binary: it suggests a work-around that questions the sharply, yet arbitrarily, delineated moral boundaries of the law.
There is a certain violence at the heart of every legal institution, to the extent that legal systems are most often designed to protect the ruling class.
The topic of "undocumented immigrants" has taken a central position in policy, leading to mass deportations and the establishment of heinous incarceration facilities.
This year's Berlin Biennale theme has been articulated as "a working concept of fugitivity understood as the cultural ability of a work of art to set its own laws, in the face of lawful violence."
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