The Oracular Tableau: Aura, Denominator, and the Curatorial Poetics of Constitutional Uncertainty in Philippine Political Theater
The Oracular Tableau: Aura, Denominator, and the Curatorial Poetics of Constitutional Uncertainty in Philippine Political Theater Curatorial Frame As an art practitioner who has spent years gatekeeping exhibition spaces, selecting what enters the white cube or the public square, and as a cultural worker who measures institutional language against lived consequence, I approach the Senate Impeachment Court’s invitation of four retired justices—Artemio Panganiban, Reynato Puno, Hilario Davide Jr., and Adolf Azcuna—as amici curiae not merely as a procedural footnote but as a living installation.¹ The work on view is the constitutional text itself: Article XI, Section 3(6) of the 1987 Constitution, which states with almost brutal clarity that “No person shall be convicted without the concurrence of two-thirds of all the Members of the Senate.”² With a full membership of twenty-four, the arithmetic is sixteen. The curatorial problem arises when four senators are absent—detained, ...