The nGbK publication ‘Dreams & Dramas. Law as Literature’ is a reader presenting the relationship between law describing and creating reality, including ourselves as persons, participating in communities. On the basis of four narrative axes – person, community, territory, and property – the book demonstrates the ways in which these concepts are in relation to and of impact to one another.
The book also examines the tools used by the law, such as cut and montage, indirect speech, and legal fiction. This brings to light the narrative nature of the law and, pertinently, the matter of which stories are being heard and which are not. The publication ensued from the exhibition of nGbK in spring 2017 helped to forge a space for communication about Dramas & Dreams.
Edit: Agnieszka Kilian in collaboration with Jaro Varga and Joerg Franzbecker.
Book design: Kaja Gliwa.
Published by: nGbK and HIT Gallery.
Released: December 2017.
ISBN 978-3-938515-67-9