In 2007 Aernout Mik represented the Netherlands at the Venice Biennale. Rather than produce a standard catalogue to accompany Miks acclaimed threepart video installation curator Maria Hlavajova organized this dense and galvanizing critical reader. Interspersed with provocative blackandwhite images from Miks artworks Citizens and Subjects looks at the Netherlands as an example of the contemporary western condition at a time when the demands of national security the normalization of violence an