DIVINE JUSTICE by Ariana Reines

In her 24-hour durational performance DIVINE JUSTICE at Performance Space New York, the poet, playwright, and astrologer, Ariana Reines has investigated the myths and scholarship around Medea, in order to stage a different kind of courtroom, one designed to mirror the inviolable and fundamentally uncriminal space inside each human being, no matter how vicious, no matter how abused.

Disillusioned by failures of the American justice system, the artist asks what would happen if the planet Venus actually structured the American Judiciary, as it presides over Justice in the Zodiac. How would a justice system that truly answers to Venus, a planet of love and good fortune, be structured, how would wrongdoing be corrected, how would damage be addressed, how would victims be made whole?

Cast

Jim Fletcher, “Jason”; Birgit Huppuch, “Medea”; Ariana Reines, “Chorus”

See Part 1, Part 2 and Part 3 of the performance via Performance Space New York.