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Hello, citizens of Acity!
Today’s featured work, [The Sovereign Body], was created based on the core theory of the master of political philosophy, Carl Schmitt, regarding the "State of Exception," combined with the concept of "The King's Two Bodies" from Ernst Kantorowicz’s renowned work. Kantorowicz argued that a monarch possesses two coexisting bodies: a "natural body" destined to age and die, and an "eternal political body" representing the state. Schmitt defined the sovereign as one with the absolute decisiveness to suspend normal rules and declare a state of emergency. This project visualizes how a human being transforms themselves into a symbolic vessel for the eternity of the system, set against a backdrop of uniforms and military themes.
The line "The flesh will fade, the system stays alive" in the lyrics sings of the separation between the finite natural body and the eternal political body, as described by Kantorowicz. Furthermore, the declaration "I am the rule, the law, the absolute!" demonstrates the overwhelming charisma of a designer who halts the existing order to establish a new sovereign will.
A time to transcend the finiteness of the natural body and emerge as the eternal body of the state. Following the gaze of the designer who stands before the absolute decision to halt or enact the system, I hope you enjoy a time of pleasant contemplation as you gain control over the chaos of daily life and stand as a sovereign of your own existence.

Original Audio-Visual Project by Acity
Directed & Edited by Acity
Music: Produced by Acityartmedia
Lyricist: Acity

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Transcript
00:13Dressed in fabric stripped of human name
00:17Carrying an everlasting heavy frame
00:20Reflects with brilliant sharp cold air
00:23Not a single tremor in the heavy stare
00:26The tanks are rolling down the frozen street while I'm
00:30I tick, tick where the borders meet
00:33They look for chaos where the rules decay
00:35I am the one who makes the final say
00:39When the horizon starts to fall
00:44I stand above and I command it all
00:51Sovereign body
00:53The flesh will fade
00:55The system stays alive
00:57Sovereign body
01:00Deciding who will fall and who survives
01:04I am the who, the lord, the absolute
01:08The lord, the absolute
01:11The lord, the absolute
01:21The absolute
01:33The absolute
01:35The absolute
01:59Standing tall above the vacant square
02:03Every soldier frozen in a sudden glare
02:06This is not a uniform I wear for a show
02:09It's the architecture of a final blow
02:13Looking down upon the marching line
02:16Every single boundary is strictly mine
02:19They look for chaos where the rules decay
02:22I am the one who makes the final say
02:25When the horizon starts to fall
02:30I stand above and I command it all
02:37Sovereign body
02:39Sovereign body
02:40The flesh will fade
02:41The system stays alive
02:43Sovereign body
02:46Deciding who will fall and who survives
02:49I am the rule, the lord, the absolute
02:53The lord, the absolute
02:56The lord, the absolute
03:02The natural body breaks
03:04The crown remains
03:06I hold the key to all the iron chains
03:09Whose order is this?
03:10Open up your eyes
03:12I am the state beneath the freezing sky
03:20Sovereign body
03:21Sovereign body
03:23The flesh will fade
03:25The system stays alive
03:26Sovereign body
03:29Deciding who will fall and who survives
03:33I am the rule, the lord, the absolute
03:36The lord, the absolute
03:39The lord, the absolute
03:47I make this day
03:53I make this day
04:18I make this day