Habeas Corpus investigates speculative futures rooted in ancestral intelligence, positioning the ancient writ “you have the body” as scaffold and allegory for resistance and release. The project unfolds in a charged white space imagined as both sanctuary and cell, where padded and woven walls form anechoic membranes, and storied stones invest columns with civic legacies. Centred, a Cararra column etched with a gilded barcode activates a golden digital “chip” — an AI-AR offspring carved from ancient wood. Across this environment, real and virtual bodies vacillate between totem and text-figure, spirit and human, object and code; binding viewer and spectacle. Blending primordial matter, minimalism, and machine learning, the work navigates thresholds where sensory and digital dimensions entangle, channelling emotion, memory, and biospheric systems into a speculative rite of contested confinement and liberty.