[P2P-F] Fwd: PREMIERE of Voice of Nature - The Trial at Court of Appeal in Ghent

Tue Feb 12 13:12:14 CET 2019

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From: maria lucia cruz correia <mluciacruzcorreia at gmail.com>
Date: Tue, Feb 12, 2019 at 12:27 PM
Subject: PREMIERE of Voice of Nature - The Trial at Court of Appeal in Ghent
To: <michelsub2004 at gmail.com>

Voice of Nature - The Trial coming soon in Ghent! It is now almost 2 years
since I've left on a field research to Ecuador, the only place in the world
*Voice of Nature - The Trial*
coming soon in Ghent!

It is now almost 2 years since I’ve left on a field research to Ecuador,
the only place in the world that acknowledges the rights of nature in the
constitution. It has been a long artistic research, mostly focused on
possible legal frameworks that allow either to represent non-humans in
court or to recognize ecocide.
Non of those are being applied yet or envisioned in a near future.

*The result of this research is a performance!*
We will premiere on the 1st of march in Vooruitkunstcentrum, and we are
thankful to present in the context of the festival ‘same same but
different’.
As a location, we chose the Court of Appeal of Gent (Hof van Beroep), as a
statement of activation.

As a response to the many legal challenges we face in representing
non-humans in a courtroom, more then a year ago, I started my quest to
become a guardian of nature. For that, I’ve dedicated daily attention, to
perform rituals and embodiments with non-human others. As a result I’ve
archived these exercises in a book.
The performance in itself will be a proposal for justice, the kind of
justice nature needs, imagining a universe of kinship and rites as an
embodiment of non-humans. We will propose collective rituals featuring the
unknown and the unconscious part of nature in us.
History is asking us to become healers,
warriors, guardians, keepers, defenders.
To speak on behalf of future and past generations.
To amplify the voice of nature, animals, plants, rivers, land...
We have harmed enough, we have been harmed enough.
Enough is enough.
Let us stop harming, let us make amends, let us repair the irreparable.

Welcome on the 1st of march!
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As additional information, I would like to mention small achievements,
within our collaboration with experts:

Hendrik Schoukens, environmental lawyer and scientific researcher at the
department of Public, European and International Law of Ghent University.
We invited him to imagine ‘an ideal world’, juridically speaking, by
proposing a number of important legal alterations to the existing legal
framework. Apart from that, there was a sense of emergency to involve law
students in the creation of this piece. *As an outcome, the concept of
‘ecocide’ was explicitly for the first time included in the curriculum of
law students at Ghent University*. Students are now working on papers
concerning ecocide law, rights of nature and indigenous rights. For, if the
new generation of lawyers is not fully aware of it, how can we
realistically hope for the concept of ecocide to be included into the Rome
Statute of the International Criminal Court?

As a proposal, the piece is looking at restorative justice and therefore we
collaborated with Brunilda Pali from the Institute of Criminology Leuven,
to discover artistically speaking how to *use restorative justice in order
to prevent environmental crimes*,* but also to tackle the fact that if we
need to prevent the harm*,* there should be a way to restore ourselves as
humans*. In restorative justice, crime is not seen as a break in the law
but a violation/harm of people and relationships. It creates obligations to
make things right. Its processes are always voluntary, participatory and
involve everyone affected. The outcomes are reconciliation, restoration,
and reassurance that the harm will not happen again.
Voice of nature will be part of the seminar:
https://www.law.kuleuven.be/apps/activiteiten/en/portaal/index/view_activiteit/4569

Very thankful for the artistic team who has been crucial to bring this
challenging project together:
Dramaturgy *Ingrid Vranken *Performance *Caroline Daish *Systemic
Constellation Navigator *Luea Ritter *Research contribution* Sébastien
Hendrickx *Sound Design *Joao Bento *Light Design *Vinny Jones *
Video *Mark Pozlep *Advise *Jeroen Peeters, Starhawk*
Costume Design *Anne-Catherine Kunz *Legal fact checking *Hendrik Schoukens
& Juan Auz *Research documentation *Mark Pozlep & Hana Vodeb *Restorative
Justice collaborator *Brunilda Pali *Intern* Maíra Wiener *Technician*
Alain Decoen *Production* Tineke de Meyer*

Co-producers* Vooruit, Kaaitheater, Bunker, Workspacebrussels and Het
Theaterfestival (Roel Verniers **prijs** 2017).*

Residencies *No Lugar (EC), Center for Creative Ecologies /Tj Demos (US),
Artsadmin (UK), BUDA kunstcentrum (BE), WP Zimmer (BE)*.

With the support of *the Flemish Community,* *Imagine 2020, and Creative
Europe Culture.*

Warm regards,
Lucia

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