Practice and/or process? (In)disciplining law and art

Abstract

This symposium includes submissions that consider understandings of practice and process, in the interweavings among art, law and political activism, very broadly de fi ned. The selection of essays brings together a mix of critical legal, socio-legal, practice-based and law and humanities commentaries on the coming together of art and law through its vernacular to spectacular practices and processes, of various forms. The inspiration for this fi ve-piece collection stems from a collaborative convergence of practitioners from the legal profession, those that are self-de fi ned fi ne artists, and those that see themselves as in opposition or tension with both, as activists or agitators who sit outside of any art/law dichotomy. This creation story emanated from the Art/Law Network ’ s Art/ Law Journal project, the interesting intellectual and aesthetic junctures encountered giving birth to these essays. Indeed, you could regard this symposium as just one half of an attempt to manifest the intersections of art and law, theory, practice and process. The other half, made up of creative works, emigrated to a zine on art, law and politics, named ‘ HYPHAE ’ . 1 ‘ Half ’ does not do it justice because, just as within the fi ve pieces of this symposium, art, law, practice and process are entangled and distributed in and amongst one another in such inseparable and co-creative ways that to speak of categoriz-ation may be something of a fi ction.