The Trouble of All Inna Kochkina & Elisa Piazzi
Can universality ever be achieved without collapsing into systems of generalisation or oppression?
The Trouble of All - a call for complicating ‘universality’ challenges the tendency to oversimplify the concept of universality, emphasising the need to complicate it instead.
The all is trouble - and we choose to stay with it.
In this book, through workshops, conversations, and critical reflections, we work with the Universal Declaration of Human Rights as both a lens and tool to make the idea of universality tangible.
Bringing together voices from art, law, pedagogy, type design, and performance, The Trouble of All is a collaborative publication that challenges the dominant narratives of universality and human rights as neutral or equally shared by all. In doing so, we invite the reader to rethink, question, and continually rewrite what universality - and shared human rights - mean in our common world.
With contributions by Parsa Abidi, Inna Kochkina, Mohammad Mishal, Antrianna Moutoula, Elisa Piazzi, Caterina Santullo & Irina Shapiro.