Viktória Kaslik
16 April 2025, from 18h00 to 20h00
Eartnail, wild endive, witch gowan. Bitter in taste, detoxifying in effect, and protector of Gdansk (PL). Dandelion emerged for a co-creative artistic research trajectory hosted by Viktória Kaslik (HU), starting in 2022. Running for more than two years on the axis of the Carpathian basin and the Baltic seashores, making Viktória return to Gdansk twice, it was dandelions leading the inquiry on how contemporary human-made law is shaping the way we relate to land. The inquiry resulted in a protocol in which in her capacity as a jurist, as a performance act, she transferred the legal power she received from the nation-state as a practicing jurist.
The protocol invites the reader to establish their relation with dandelions, to eliminate the old legal structures, and to give space to the establishment of dandelion laws to emerge. The protocol was given a visual world by Edyta Majewska-Rosińska (PL), and the transfer of legal power was witnessed and co-performed by Gdansk citizens, and co-choreographed by Aleks Borys (PL).
In the lecture, I wish to share the research behind the protocol with you, the journey of working with plant spirits in legal reconfiguration. I invite you to drink dandelion tea together.
“She is growing for the light, to reach the Sun and eventually to become the Moon, living in eternal cyclicality. She is traveling to places where her message needs to be heard, where her nurturing is needed, where water needs to be kept, where the condensed soil needs to be loosened, where the concrete needs to be cracked. Mniszek Lekarski is cracking the concrete with her timing. She came to retrieve our broken fabric. It is not about reclaiming any claim, yet it is sourced and pouring from beyond the physical plant body, from a field of the archetypal dandelion-ness. From the cosmos constituted of an invisible fabric, a semi-terrestrial fascia gluing us, together. She perhaps invites us to rejoin, to ask to see what is, and ask again what laws are.”
Quote from Dandelion Feast, a protocol to eliminate legal waste from Earth bodies
This lecture will be conducted in English and the invited person will be present via video-conference.
Viktória Kaslik
Viktória Kaslik (b. 1992) has a background in law, artistic research, and ancestral constellations. She was born and raised in the Carpathian Basin. She studied law (MA) in Budapest, and critical and conceptual design (MA) at Design Academy Eindhoven. In her work, she explores the terrain of nature-sourced laws through artistic and practice-based research, writing, artistic collaborations, and consultation. Since 2025, she has been practicing as an ancestral and systemic constellation facilitator.
General information
Date
16th April 2025, from 18h00 to 20h00
Venue
Forum Dança – Espaço da Penha
Travessa do Calado, 26B, 1170-070 Lisboa
Free entry, subject to capacity.
Top photo © DR