The ideas behind the fictional institution, in the artist’s words.
Lived experience
My experience in the citizenship-by-investment industry exposed a gap between the rhetoric of nationhood and the ways citizenship is allocated. Wealth and technical skills can determine access to a system that describes itself through cultural or ethnic ties. Post-Nations grew from my interest in that gap and in the structures of belonging already taking shape beyond traditional nationalism.
Nationhood in transition
Nation-states remain central to cultural identity and international relations, while globalization, technology and individual mobility reshape how they operate. I do not propose Post-Nations as inherently better or worse. I am exploring a world that already hints at post-national realities without fully acknowledging them in its language.
Systems of cooperation
The Concord for Post-National Cooperation and Understanding (CPCU) brings the question into an institution attempting to coordinate other institutions. Birthright and inherited identities persist alongside permanent affiliations, ideological communities and transactional memberships. Citizenship, access and protection follow different arrangements, and cooperation must contend with those differences.
The question of belonging
The project asks how we navigate belonging when inherited structures meet newer forms of membership and governance. The nation-state remains part of that world. I am interested in the points where connection and fragmentation coexist, and where a familiar promise of recognition encounters an authority that does not share it.
Alex DahdahArtist · Post-Nations