PhD Lecture Robin Vanbesien. Visual artist Robin Vanbesien will share some of the thoughts, considerations and reflections that underpin the film project Abolition Place Study, which focuses on the social imagination of a citizen collective that emerged in response to a recent tragic case of police violence in the context of migration border control in Belgium. By enabling and capturing the collective's public forensic investigation into the wider field of causes, this film project leads us to an imagining of a thick or wild justice. At the same time, it attempts to construct a ‘holding environment’ in which a different way of hearing justice can take place by playing on the senses.

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