planet species animal human water Agent. in motion on the move in flight of the Earth of the Land of the Ocean her ecology. here and there sea and ice wind and current seed and settlement. (Study for Siren lll)

you are water. you are sea ice. (Study for Siren lll)

Siren lll

Siren lV

Siren ll

Siren l

Scapegoat

2020

2018

2016

Game of World Domination (for Albert Lamorisse)

pinwheels

Scales of Justice

The door to Pandora's box read "Welcome".

Saviour Complex

study for Homer Sacer

wake

Bread and Circuses

between here and there

Homer Sacer

Game of World Domination

after Africa \ “So long, Farewell” (sunset) / a yard of ashes (continuous cross dissolve) / “Oh! How I hate to get up in the morning!” (sunrise)

So that you’ll know. Ten martyrs for every innocent.

until the story of the hunt is told by the lion (facing horror and the possibility of shame)

"within the state of exception"

Defensive Points

from the Missionary perspective:  A Difficult Gift 

the camera eye

he said. she said

Undo. Unravel. Go back, and further back, still. Go home. (Are you my Mother?) for Boty Goodwin

Nurture

drive by good bye

systems of belief

I WILL PROTECT YOU

daddy's girl

42 February skies

my grandmother took command from her bed

the public sleeping performance

Beauty and the Beast

childhood

from the reliquarium database

study for torso

the chimera set 2007

the chimera set 2006

classically bound

a crowd of one self

i absolutely know i exist

We shared her interface, became intimate – her sweat, her tears, her blood stains between my legs, the cigarette burns, the unraveled hems, her skin dust locked in the weave mixing with my own.

rest

longing and longing for order

I imagined her into being then put her away in neat packets.

news

bio

artist words

Today, 1 November 2021, the UNHCR recognizes 26.4 million people in flight –seeking refuge outside of their countries of origin (who bear legal responsibility for inclusion of nationals within the international nation state system of laws and recognitions). A further 4.2 million people are recognized to live in statelessness. About half of the people who embody these statistics are children. To be stateless is to exist outside of international human rights frameworks. The place of statelessness is the ultimate state of exception.

“The relation of exception is a relation of ban. He who has been banned is not, in fact, simply set outside the law and made indifferent to it but rather abandoned by it, that is, exposed and threatened on the threshold in which life and law, outside and inside, become indistinguishable. It is literally not possible to say whether the one who has been banned is outside or inside the juridical order.”

Giorgio Agamben Homer Sacer 2013

© nichola feldman-kiss 2021