As the American republic lurches toward its 250th anniversary, Zakros InterArts summons The People v. The King: a nine-part live civic-art tribunal of sovereign power. Broadcast as a public process of witness interviews, evidence gathering, and telematic prosecution for the upcoming season of Bunker Fridays, the series begins Friday, May 1, 2026, continuing weekly through Friday, July 3, 2026, 4:00 - 5:00 PM ET.

For Docket VI: Matter of Imaginary Solutions, Linda Klieger Stillman brings Alfred Jarry’s ’pataphysics before the Court as the “science of imaginary solutions”: a method for examining exceptions, contradictions, and absurd lineaments when literal realism no longer fully exposes grotesque power. Her testimony will test whether the imaginary, the contradictory, and the deliberately impossible can clarify rather than confuse—revealing the hidden logic of a regime whose authority depends upon spectacle, distortion, and normalized impossibility.

Against the grotesque sovereignty of the King, ’pataphysics becomes an instrument of artistic resistance. It refuses the false stability of official reality and instead opens a supplementary universe in which power’s absurdity can be seen, staged, and judged. In this deposition, imaginary solutions do not evade truth; they pursue it by other means, turning exception, paradox, and poetic invention into forensic tools for confronting the machinery of unreality.

Across nine weekly witness interviews and a culminating tribunal performance, The People v. The King unfolds as a public investigation of testimony, evidence gathering, and symbolic prosecution, with online audiences seated as the Public Jury whose live chat, questions, and submissions enter the evidentiary record.

For additional information, witness bios, and series details visit the event page.

Find the full recorded proceedings for this docket in the Court Record.

The People v. The King | Docket 6: Matter of Imaginary Solutions | Witness: Linda Klieger Stillman