Summer School –⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ Becoming an Octopus / Performance „A Contract Unto Hydrojustice“

Pragovka Gallery cordially invites you to the performative lecture Andreas Philippopoulos-Mihalopoulos: A Contract Unto Hydrojustice / Hydra: The Contract, which will take place on July 10 at 4:00 PM as part of the Summer School – Becoming an Octopus program.

“Hydra: The Contract” is an immersive performative situation in which the audience is invited to enter into a speculative contract between bodies of water. The performance takes the form of a private liturgy, connecting everyone present with one another and with the water bodies to which we, as humans, belong. The event will open with a performative reading and will be followed by a discussion. It is based on the author's recent book Hydrojustice (Cambridge: Polity, 2025).

Andreas Philippopoulos-Mihalopoulos is an artist / academic / fiction author. In his practice, he weaves together performance, legal theory, ecological pedagogy, spatial justice, video art, installation, hydrotheory, and other forms of interdisciplinary research. He is a Professor of Law & Theory at the University of Westminster and the Director of the Westminster Law & Theory Lab. He has authored numerous academic and fiction books, including Hydrojustice (2025), Spatial Justice: Body Lawscape Atmosphere (2014), and the novel Our Distance Became Water (2023). His work has been presented at venues such as the Palais de Tokyo, the Venice Biennale, and Tate Modern.