City Law School — Coercive Control & the Criminal Law

Exhibition + Book Launch

City Law School — Coercive Control and the Criminal Law

An exhibition moment held alongside the book launch of Coercive Control and the Criminal Law by Dr Cassandra Wiener, in conversation with the legacy of the late, great Professor Evan Stark. A meeting point between art and law — where language becomes infrastructure, and recognition becomes possibility.

  • Venue: City Law School
  • Context: Book launch + dialogue
  • Theme: Coercive control + language
Feature view of the City Law School exhibition moment.
In situ at City Law School Art as a companion language — holding complexity without demanding disclosure.

What this moment made possible

Coercive control often lives in the space between words, in patterns, atmospheres, and the slow erosion of self. This work was created to sit alongside legal scholarship, not as decoration, but as another form of truth-making: visual, embodied, and quietly precise.

Why this setting mattered

City Law School offered a context where the public conversation is shaped by evidence, language, and definitions. Placing the work here strengthens its civic relevance, and affirms the role of art in how societies learn to see.

How the work is held

I work through art-led storytelling designed for organisational and cultural contexts: structured, trauma-aware, and fit for institutions — making space for reflection without requiring personal disclosure.

Gallery Highlights

Artwork or event image from City Law School book launch.
Swim Swam Swum Tracing movements of racial coercion across history, and marks the moment of standing at the shore, self-defined and unbroken.
Exhibition view at City Law School.
In situ view Where scholarship and story share the room.
Close-up detail of an artwork.
Detail Seeing what systems can miss.
A moment from the event.
Event moment Language, power, and public understanding.
A wider view of the space.
Space + presence Evan Stark the man who coined the term Coercive Control. Visibility that carries weight.

Response

“Bringing art into an academic space showed that knowledge does not only live in papers and policy — it lives in image, colour, and collective reflection.”

— Attribution

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