MA Graduation (2023)

REVIEW OF THE REVIEW

Germany’s current laws on abortion are derived from a May 1993 ruling by the Federal Constitutional Court. A review of the correlating original document reveals the ways in which bodies with the ability to become pregnant are controlled through both text and action.

Review of the Review attempts exactly this – a revisioning of its content and the legal consequences from today’s perspective. As a citizen-based, collective practice of productive amateurism, this new version is to be built upon original sources, discourse and artistic reflection. The audience is invited to engage with excerpts from the original text from 1993 through a performative karaoke lecture, as well as pamphlets that are designed to provide a digestible form of the research.

This practice is staged in a fractionalized, grounded version of the original courtroom, patched with found or referenced objects, revisioned to cater new functionalities. Maintaining the original as a structural framework questions the validity of the current version of regulation, but also reveals the frictional interpretability of constitutions – not only in Germany, but elsewhere as well.