CICC: Extinction Wars
(Project by Jonas Staal)
Installation / Tribunal
by Radha D'Souza & Jonas Staal
Extinction Wars makes the case thatcapitalism and colonialism are possible only by waging military campaigns against natures and peoples in the past, present and future. The annihilation of natures, peoples, and their cultures over the past 500 years are extinction wars.
The Court for Intergenerational Climate Crimes (CICC) is a more-than-human tribunal that aims to prosecute climate crimes committed by states and corporations, not only in the past and present, but also in the future. In the CICC the public acts as jury and is tasked with passing a verdict based on The Intergenerational Climate Crimes Act: the legal foundation of the CICC.
In a court consisting of military frontlines constructed from sandbags, oil barrels and barbed wire, combined with images of animals made extinct from the colonial period to the present, witness statements and evidentiary materials regarding the destruction of communities and ecologies through the military-industrial complex in the Republic of Korea and internationally were presented.
Project | CICC The Law on Trial
Concept | by Radha D'Souza & Jonas Staal
Commisioned by | Studio Jonas Staal
Type | Installation / Court
Date | April 5-July 30, 2023
Location | Gwangju Museum of Art, Gwangju, South Korea
Event | 14th Gwangju Biennale
Architecture | Paul Kuipers
Project Coordinator | Nadine Gouders