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Imagine Law, issue number 28 of OnCurating, has been conceived with the intention of inquiring into the relation between law and art as it is manifested in a variety of recent artistic and curatorial projects and legal writings. Based on the notion that the law holds an abiding influence on all terrains of society, our aim was to unravel tactics and mechanisms used by art and legal practitioners a like as they deconstruct, reconstruct, and appropriate legal matter and form. The collection of texts and images assembled together in the journal manifest an exploration of politics and art as it is approached through a legal perception. We aspired to decipher ways in which artists, curators, and legal scholars tackle politics as a sphere in which contested areas are negotiated, leading to administrative ordering and laws. With contributions by legal scholars, artists, and curators, we set out to re-explore their own relation to law and the complexity of administrative and policy making, in an attempt to formulate anew the role law has had and continues to hold in their work, research, and creation. The law's immense power to direct, authorize, and legitimize social relations and institutions is therefore interrogated, underscored, and reflected upon throughout the journal as we trace and map law's evolving definitions, concepts, and practices in contemporary art and legal scholarship. Contributions by: Tzion Abraham Hazan, Sabine Mueller-Mall, Jonas Staal, Zoltán Kékesi ; + ID: 551233 + Reihentitel: OnCurating + PeerReviewed: Peer Reviewed

Covering over decade of projects, Don't Shrink Me to the Size of a Bullet: The Works of Hiwa K provides the first comprehensive account of the artist's practice to date. Edited by Anthony Downey, with a foreword by Heike Catherina Mertens and Krist Gruijthuijsen, the volume includes essays by Lawrence Abu Hamdan, Natasha Ginwala, Bonaventure Soh Bejeng Ndikung, Aneta Szyłak, and a conversation between the artist and Bakir Ali. A series of texts have been prepared and revised by the artist, and he has also included a collection of anecdotes that recount gossip, stories, jokes, personal insights, conundrums, and aphorisms garnered from multiple sources. These have all been translated into Kurdish for the first time. The volume is fully illustrated and will contain extended notes on the works. Don't Shrink Me to the Size of a Bullet offers context and background to Hiwa K's works from 2005 onwards, including Arbeitsplatz (Workspace) (2005), Cooking with Mama (2005–ongoing), Inappropriation (2009), and Country Guitar Lessons (2005–11), all of which either utilized or subverted spaces within an art institution. Other projects, such as Moon Calendar (2007), This Lemon Tastes of Apple (2011), and Do You Remember What You Are Burning? (2011), focus on historical events in Kurdistan and, more broadly, Iraq; while issues of migration and the fraught experiences associated with forced exile are explored in Pre-Image (2010). The historical and geopolitical realities of immaterial and material exchange come to the fore in Qatees (2009), Chicago Boys: While They Were Singing, We Were Dreaming (2010), It's Spring and the Weather Is Great So Let's Close All Object Matters (2012), My Father's Colour Periods (2013), and The Bell Project (2014–15). More recent works, such as Existentialism in Kurdistan (Raw Materiality 01) (2016–ongoing), call attention to the impact of neoliberal dogma on Kurdistan and its all too imminent impact on the region's population, economic history, and cultural practices. In the spirit of the artist's work, this volume will introduce a new audience to his projects and offer additional insights for those who already know it.