One institutional account in four passages. The promises are fictional; the artist’s commentary is identified separately.
Citizenship marketplace
Fictional institutional voice
POST|NATIONS
Voted Best Citizenship Marketplace Network!
Choose a belonging plan with the flexibility of a Microsoft 365 or Google Workspace subscription, or the provisions of an insurance package. Participating plans offer streamlined global travel, economic incentives and community resources.
The Post-Nation Stock Market makes participating jurisdictions’ transferable memberships available for exchange. Other citizenships cannot be bought, sold or transferred.
Cooperation: the CPCU
Fictional institutional voice
The Concord for Post-National Cooperation and Understanding (CPCU) is an independent, neutral facilitator connecting Post-Nations and their citizens. It offers shared services and spaces for dialogue, cooperation and innovation while respecting each jurisdiction’s autonomy. It does not govern members or mediate their disputes.
Operating as a semi-Post-Nation, the CPCU owns and controls the territories, buildings and digital platforms it occupies. This arrangement secures independence from any single Post-Nation. Its stated principles are neutrality, transparency, fairness and respect for diverse values.
Artist commentary
The CPCU’s promise of neutrality sits beside its control over the places and platforms where cooperation happens. The institution can disclaim governing authority while setting the conditions for using its facilities.
Transfer, multiple citizenship and asylum
Fictional institutional voice
Citizenship may align with a member’s values, aspirations and contributions. A person can apply to transfer to a new Post-Nation while relinquishing the previous affiliation, acquire additional citizenships where permitted, or seek asylum in cases of conflict or restrictions. Each pathway follows the conditions of the jurisdictions involved.
Post-national jurisdictions
Fictional institutional voice
Birth, descent, residence, shared faith, contribution and subscription can establish affiliation under different jurisdictions. Benefits and responsibilities remain specific to the issuing institution.
The real experiments that informed these systems are discussed in Precursors.
Artist commentary
The marketplace satire draws on citizenship-by-investment programmes, global taxation and multiple residencies, alongside technological change and globalization. Customizable belonging raises questions about loyalty and identity, about who can gain access to resources and mobility, and about whether the market widens or reduces inequality.
Across installations, digital projections and participatory experiences, the work places inherited institutions beside new authorities and services. Its dystopia concerns how belonging, power and protection are organized across those systems.