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Mapping
the System

Installation

July 2025

Installation: LED screens, custom-build metal stand
Banner: Blackboard paint, chalk
Performers: Chetna Mehrotra, Annika Toyah Bode
Audio editing: Luan Conzett
Gudied by Remco van Bladel

Exhibited at ArtEZ Graduation 2025 and Artists Against the Kremlin Exhibition

ArtEZ
2025

Mapping the System is an artistic research project that explores authoritarian regimes and their influence on the private lives of dissenters, both within and beyond their borders. Political systems are often analyzed through formal structures of laws, courts, parties, etc. In contrast, this project develops a study of authoritarianism based solely on a private conversation that might occur between two citizens.

The installation was presented during the GDA Graduation 2025 and accompnied by an eponymous publication.