Field Causality

Causality is a reproducible link between cause and effect, thus applying to the series of events and states and, depending on the cause, has a fixed temporal direction, according to Wikipedia. Cowboy shoots Indian. Indian dead. Is here only the temporal sequence of relevance or also the American dream? And what distinguishes our view of this in 1813 and in 2014? On the one hand, it’s about the question of how zeitgeist and ideology shape perception, but also the question of context, the field. A dense texture of manifold forces, links and associations, chains of reaction between things, individuals, and milieus, interests, technologies, environmental conditions: the space for beholding expands. How can genocides be studied, cyclones and droughts be examined, progress be evaluated without thinking in biased or unanimous ways?

More information in the media section

Talk on the Anthropocene. With Eyal Weizman, Curator of Forensis and Bernd M. Scherer

Forensis Exhibition. Keynote by Eyal Weizman, Curator of Forensis

Forensics in the Anthropocene. With Nabil Ahmed, Maayan Amir, Adrian Lahoud, Hannah Meszaros Martin (Modelling Kivalina), Godofredo Pereira, Paulo Tavares. Moderation Kathryn Yusoff

Is the Anthropocene… Legal? Dialogue between Christina von Braun and Paulo Tavares

External links for further reading

Forensic Architecture, Cases: Guatemala: operacion sofia. Environmental violence and genocide in the Ixil triangle

Forensic Architecture, Files: Climate Crimes

Forensic Architecture, Cases: The Left-to-Die Boat. The deadly drift of a migrants’ boat in the Central Mediterranean