What a Beautiful Crime It Is to Conspire for the Common Good! — 2025

This installation presents the outcome of a three-month residency with Off the Grid at Cas-co, Leuven (BE). On August 23rd, 2025, we led a one-day participatory workshop at Cas-co that explored abolition and transformative justice through speculative fiction and collective visual imagination. Bringing together artists, activists, and theorists, the workshop invited participants to reimagine a society beyond policing, punishment, and carceral logics through creative writing prompts and radical pedagogy exercises. By producing visionary texts and images, the collective process aimed to make complex questions of transformative justice more accessible and grounded. Drawing connections between radical speculative fiction and movements for social change, the workshop tested the potential of collective speculation as a tool for proposing alternative social structures. The outcomes of this collective process—texts, prompts, and drawings contributed by participants—were gathered into a limited-edition RISO-printed zine, titled "So You’re Thinking about Becoming…". These contributions were also composed into large-scale textile partitions that function as collective scores and visual records of the shared conversations, extending the workshop into an evolving, collaborative body of work.

all drawings, sketches, and texts featured in both the zine and the textile partitions were generously contributed by the workshop participants, who became collaborators in this work: Kateryna Berezina, Valentina Bianchi, Marília Breite, Elke De Neve, Tine Deboelpaep, Diane Fleury, and Jimena Garcia Vazquez.

residency presentation at Cas-co, Leuven (BE)

with the support of Off the Grid team, Arthur Cordier, Zuzanna Rachowska, and Jonas Dehnen

with the kind support of the city of Leuven, and the Flemish Government