The Henrike Iglesias collective was founded in 2012 by Leo G. Alonso, Malu Peeters, Marielle Schavan, and Sophia Schroth. They understand pop cultural and mass media phenomena as a mirror of social conditions and grievances and have made it their aim to illuminate them from feminist perspectives.  They like to use technology in narrative, interactive and poetic ways and to explore how it is influencing our daily lives together at this moment in time.

In their latest project, Liars, the collective invites Olympia Bukkakis, Australian drag queen, choreographer, and presenter, to explore the influence of judicial processes in the context of gender and sexual violence. Using the example of the Johnny Depp vs. Amber Heard case, Liars questions the impact that cases like these —with significant media coverage and social media reception —can have on power abuse and its consequences for those suffering under patriarchy’s violence. During their two-week artist residency at O Espaço do Tempo, Henrike Iglesias and Olympia Bukkakis worked on textual material collected from the Amber Heard and Johnny Depp case, culminating in an open conversation with resident artists and other audiences.

This project was hosted as part of FELD/LAB, an initiative supported by the Goethe-Institut in Portugal in partnership with Coffeepaste.