A Moment in Law Re-Making

Frontex’s multiple legal and moral violations of its purpose, role, scope and limitations as European Border and Coast Guard Agency are subversively legalised by Ayla Kekhia's correction of Regulation (EU) 2019/1896 into an amended Regulation (EU) 2022/1896. Set against Frontex’s push-back operations ongoing in the Aegean Sea, this multimedia performance collapses the distances between the magisterial, austere and impersonal process of law-making and the adversity experienced by illegal migrants due to the EU’s failure to uphold its laws. Rejecting the altruistic image of Europe, it performs the intrinsic relation between law-making and the oratory act, deconstructed as institutional framework and a performative act.