Projects / The Destituent Lab / How do you render a security system inoperative?
Partners: Anca Benera & Arnold Estefan
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A flock of disobedient sheep has caused disruptions in the security systems at a U.S. military base in southern Romania, located in the proximity of a pasture. The sheep resist relocation and refuse to move away; they want to graze where they always have. In an act of disobedience and refusal, the sheep caused a series of disruptions to the perimeter detection system, rendering the sensors temporarily inoperative and unleashing security chaos. This incident led us to contemplate other-than-human forms of destituent power.
Our work explores how the military imagination shapes landscapes, climates, and communities. This poster is part of ongoing research that reflects on the absurdity of war and the geographies of militarization that overlap and permeate the spaces and places we live in.
Developed in the context of The Destituent Lab, Bucharest, 2022.
Partners to the project: Brandon LaBelle, Quote—Unquote , Daniela Custrin, Yota Ioannidou, María García Ruiz, Lise Skou, Anca Benera & Arnold Estefan