İnci Eviner, Parliament, 2010, Video

İnci Eviner’s ‘Parliament’ is staged in a ‘camp’ within the architectural plan of the EU Parliament building which is a reduced drawing of the original. Giorgio Agamben describes camp as a space where it is impossible to separate reality from law, rule from practice, and exception from rule; yet where these are constantly separated from each other. In parallel, ‘Parliament’ looks at the transformation of Europe into a scene of a limbo, somewhere between a utopia and a waiting lounge; it examines the European culture through a temporarily occupied refugee body, placed within and portrays the struggle to recapture the Naked Life. Those who are perplexed and therefore defeated by ‘the relationship between the violence enacting laws and the violence protecting these laws’ are the actors in this
video. It also includes the materialised broken allegories of Europe, muses who have missed their ways, animal-women, silver men, those who have committed suicide, betrayers, charlatans, libertines, lost girls, animal- citizens, those eating themselves, those taken out from the sea, those digging the earth with their teeth, those taking hostage of their own bodies, and the other uncanny are preparing their own games within the ‘Parliament’, the ambiguous district between exclusion and inclusion.