Forensis, Forensic Architecture in collaboration with SITU Research, GUATEMALA: OPERAĆION SOFÍA | The DNA-identification room at Clyde Snow Laboratory (“Laboratorio Clyde Snow”), Guatemala City, November 2011., Photo: Paulo Tavares/Eyal Weizman
Forensis, Forensic Architecture in collaboration with SITU Research, DRONE STRIKES: UNMANNED AERIAL VIOLENCE | “The Architecture of Memory.” A drone survivor building a computer model of her home to enhance her memory in Mir Ali, North Waziristan, destroyed on October 4th 2010., Visualization: © Forensic Architecture and SITU Research
Forensis, Forensic Oceanography (Charles Heller, Lorenzo Pezzani, SITU Research), “LEFT-TO-DIE BOAT” | Synthetic aperture radar satellite imagery (A and B) showing the “left-to-die” boat’s drift trajectory, Photo: © Forensic Architecture and SITU Research
Forensis, Forensic Architecture, THE LANDSCAPE OF BATTIR VS. THE STATE OF ISRAEL | The presentation of the "wall" in Battir before the Israeli High Court, Illustration: Samir Harb
Forensis, Model Court, TRANSMISSIONAL JUSTICE: RESOLUTION 978HD | Pretrial investigation, Photo: Thomas Elfgren
Forensis, Srdjan Jovanovic Weiss, AESTHETIC TARGETING: NATO AS ARCHITECTURAL CRITIC | NATO's precision bombing of Serbian radio and television (RTS) headquarters, Belgrade, April 1999, Photo: Ben Davenport
Forensis, The width of the line crossing the “Red Castle” in Battir, Photo: DAAR / Amina Bech
Forensis, Forensic Oceanography (Charles Heller, Lorenzo Pezzani, SITU Research), “LEFT-TO-DIE BOAT” | Interview with survivor Daniel Haile Gebre. Lorenzo Pezzani and Charles Heller, Milan, December 22, 2011, video still
Forensis, Gabriel Cuéllar / DAAR, RUINS UNDER CONSTRUCTION | The ruins of three houses, reconstructed with fragments from historical photographs, Visualization: Gabriel Cuéllar

Forensis

Exhibition

Sat, Mar 15–Mon, May 5, 2014
Sat, Mar 15, 2014
11 am
Sun, Mar 16, 2014
11 am
Mon, Mar 17, 2014
11 am
Wed, Mar 19, 2014
11 am
Thu, Mar 20, 2014
11 am
Fri, Mar 21, 2014
11 am
Sat, Mar 22, 2014
11 am
Sun, Mar 23, 2014
11 am
Mon, Mar 24, 2014
11 am
Free admission
Wed, Mar 26, 2014
11 am
Thu, Mar 27, 2014
11 am
Fri, Mar 28, 2014
11 am
Sat, Mar 29, 2014
11 am
Sun, Mar 30, 2014
11 am
Mon, Mar 31, 2014
11 am
Wed, Apr 2, 2014
11 am
Thu, Apr 3, 2014
11 am–10 pm
Fri, Apr 4, 2014
11 am–10 pm
Sat, Apr 5, 2014
11 am–10 pm
Sun, Apr 6, 2014
11 am–10 pm
Mon, Apr 7, 2014
11 am–10 pm
Wed, Apr 9, 2014
11 am–10 pm
Thu, Apr 10, 2014
11 am–10 pm
Fri, Apr 11, 2014
11 am–10 pm
Sat, Apr 12, 2014
11 am–10 pm
Sun, Apr 13, 2014
11 am–10 pm
Mon, Apr 14, 2014
11 am–10 pm
Wed, Apr 16, 2014
11 am–10 pm
Thu, Apr 17, 2014
11 am–10 pm
Fri, Apr 18, 2014
11 am–10 pm
Sat, Apr 19, 2014
11 am–10 pm
Sun, Apr 20, 2014
11 am–10 pm
Mon, Apr 21, 2014
11 am–10 pm
Wed, Apr 23, 2014
11 am–10 pm
Thu, Apr 24, 2014
11 am–10 pm
Fri, Apr 25, 2014
11 am–10 pm
Sat, Apr 26, 2014
11 am–10 pm
Sun, Apr 27, 2014
11 am–10 pm
Mon, Apr 28, 2014
11 am–10 pm
Wed, Apr 30, 2014
11 am–10 pm
Thu, May 1, 2014
11 am–10 pm
Fri, May 2, 2014
11 am–10 pm
Sat, May 3, 2014
11 am–10 pm
Sun, May 4, 2014
11 am–10 pm
Mon, May 5, 2014
11 am–10 pm
Forensis, Forensic Architecture and SITU Research, VIDEO-TO-SPACE ANALYSIS: BIL’IN | Image from the 3D virtual model reconstruction of the scene at the moment of the shooting of Bassem Abu Rahma, © Forensic Architecture and Situ Studio

How do mortal remains, DNA samples, and satellite images become forensic evidence? What role do imaging techniques and methods of representation play in the investigation of crimes or political acts of violence? How are objects made to speak?

The exhibition FORENSIS and the accompanying conference will explore the procedures, tools, and spatial arrangements used in forensics, as well as the potential of a new aesthetic-political practice. With this exhibition, the Haus der Kulturen der Welt devotes itself to the rapidly expanding field of artistic research and knowledge production and, through diverse examples, examines the interleaving of science, media, and the political sphere.

Curated by Anselm Franke and Eyal Weizman.

FORENSIS is a co-production by Haus der Kulturen der Welt, funded by the Capital Cultural Fund, and by Forensic Architecture, ERC-funded research project based at Goldsmiths, University of London.
http://www.forensic-architecture.org

In the framework of:
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Whereas the twentieth century could be viewed as the "age of the witness", the current "forensic turn" is inaugurating nothing less than a new cultural imagination. The exhibition excavates the notion of forensis - Latin for things pertaining to the forum - to designate the role of material forensics in articulating new notions of public truth. Its condition is one in which aesthetic practices, new technologies, and architectural research methodologies bear upon the legal implications of political struggle, violent conflict, and climate change. Forensis is based on public presentation and argumentative narrative with the aid of material and spatial objects and structures in the juridical-political sphere. It is about "producing" and "attesting" facts through narrative demonstration. The projects by artists, filmmakers, and architects shown in the exhibition investigate a range of human rights violations, environmental crimes, and man-made and natural disasters in order to reflect on the new - technologically induced - political agency of matter. A broad spectrum of spatial analyses, mappings, and forms of representation are used both to interrogate political issues through forensics and at the same time the very assumption of contemporary forensics. The case studies and investigations include f. i. forensic reconstructions of drone strikes in the shadow war in Pakistan and of the failure of NATO ships to render assistance to refugee boats; investigations into resource exploitation and environmental destruction, taking examples such as Chilean and Indonesian copper mines, and historic case studies, including the identification of Joseph Mengele’s remains in Brazil.

How do mortal remains, DNA samples, and satellite images become forensic evidence? What role do imaging techniques and methods of representation play in the investigation of crimes or political acts of violence? How are objects made to speak?

The exhibition FORENSIS and the accompanying conference will explore the procedures, tools, and spatial arrangements used in forensics, as well as the potential of a new aesthetic-political practice. With this exhibition, the Haus der Kulturen der Welt devotes itself to the rapidly expanding field of artistic research and knowledge production and, through diverse examples, examines the interleaving of science, media, and the political sphere.

With contributions by: Lawrence Abu Hamdan, Nabil Ahmed, Maayan Amir, Anthropocene Observatory (Anselm Franke, Armin Linke, Territorial Agency/John Palmesino and Ann-Sofi Rönnskog), Jacob Burns, Gabriel Cuéllar, DAAR (Alessandro Petti, Sandi Hilal, Eyal Weizman), Forensic Oceanography (Charles Heller, Lorenzo Pezzani), Grupa Spomenik (Damir Arsenijević, Ana Bezić, Pavle Levi, Jelena Petrović, Branimir Stojanović, Milica Tomić), Ayesha Hameed, Samir Harb, Helene Kazan, Thomas Keenan, Steffen Kraemer, Adrian Lahoud, Model Court (Lawrence Abu Hamdan, Sidsel Meineche Hansen, Lorenzo Pezzani, Oliver Rees), Modelling Kivalina (Andrea Bagnato, Daniel Fernández Pascual, Helene Kazan, Hannah Meszaros Martin, Alon Schwabe), Gerald Nestler, Godofredo Pereira, Nicola Perugini, ScanLAB Projects (Matthew Shaw, William Trossell), Susan Schuppli, Francesco Sebregondi, Shela Sheikh, SITU Research (Robert Beach, McKenna Cole, Therese Diede, Akshay Mehra, Charles-Antoine Perrault, Bradley Samuels, Xiaowei Wang), Caroline Sturdy Colls, Paulo Tavares, Srdjan Jovanovic Weiss/NAO, Eyal Weizman and Ines Weizman.

Curated by Anselm Franke and Eyal Weizman.

FORENSIS is a co-production by Haus der Kulturen der Welt, funded by the Capital Cultural Fund, and by Forensic Architecture, ERC-funded research project based at Goldsmiths, University of London.
http://www.forensic-architecture.org

In the framework of:

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