How bodies challenge disciplinary binaries: re-examining law and the arts inside the Marikana Commission of Inquiry

The field of transitional justice exemplifies the ‘law and … ’ approach to interdisciplinarity, in way it has welcomed arts as a critical counterpoint legal form. This article challenges conventional notions interdisciplinarity this field, claiming that maintenance rigid disciplinary boundaries between law results pigeon-holing creativity foil for law; ignoring law’s internal capacity practices processes critique. reductive perspective denies potential both disciplines offer complicity Using Marikana Commission Inquiry case study, argues an affective corporeal reflects possibility fluidity critique inside art truth-seeking after atrocity. Turning away from binaristic analysis, study offers alternative reading agency truth recovery, discovering dynamic co-generative space highlights constraints possibilities each discipline.