Forensic Architecture: The Architecture of Conflict
launch of the exhibition project
On Tuesday, February 27, 2018, at 7:00 PM, the VI PER Gallery, Vítkova 2, Prague 8 will host the opening of the exhibition project Forensic Architecture: The Architecture of Conflict, which presents the independent research agency Forensic Architecture based at Goldsmiths, University of London. It was founded in 2010 by Eyal Weizman as an interdisciplinary team composed of architects, artists, filmmakers, journalists, programmers, lawyers, activists, and other scientists from various fields.
In its work, Forensic Architecture employs new research methods in a series of investigations concerning cases of human rights violations, violence, illegal interventions, war crimes, and more. The group works for non-governmental, activist, humanitarian, and human rights organizations like Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch, as well as for institutions like the UN, presenting the results of its research to political and judicial commissions and courts. By providing key evidence to international courts, forensic architecture as a method not only highlights cases of human rights violations and crimes committed by states around the world but also gives rise to a new form of investigative practice based on the integration of forensic, architectural, archaeological, and other methods. The group uses architecture as a methodological tool to investigate armed conflicts or environmental destruction, while simultaneously cross-referencing a whole array of evidential resources, such as new media, remote sensing, material examination, and witness testimonies.
The exhibition at the VI PER Gallery will showcase this practice through several selected projects: Living Death Camps (2013), describing the state of two concentration camps in the former Yugoslavia; Nakba Day Killings (2014), a report on the killing of two Palestinian teenagers by Israeli armed forces in the city of Beitunia in Palestine; Saydnaya (2016), a reconstruction of a prison designated for torture and the elimination of opponents of the Assad regime in Syria; Al-Jinah Mosque (2017), focusing on the mistaken strike by the U.S. military on the Al-Jinah mosque in Syria, which resulted in the deaths of several dozen civilians. Through these research projects and the detailed texts accompanying them, "forensic architecture" attempts to uncover the truth that people and society have the right to know, how their conclusions and revealed facts can be used to confront state propaganda, or how to expose the latest forms of state violence.
The exhibition will be complemented by a series of public lectures and discussions.
Curators: Irena Lehkoživová (VI PER) and Sarah Nankivell (Forensic Architecture)
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In its work, Forensic Architecture employs new research methods in a series of investigations concerning cases of human rights violations, violence, illegal interventions, war crimes, and more. The group works for non-governmental, activist, humanitarian, and human rights organizations like Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch, as well as for institutions like the UN, presenting the results of its research to political and judicial commissions and courts. By providing key evidence to international courts, forensic architecture as a method not only highlights cases of human rights violations and crimes committed by states around the world but also gives rise to a new form of investigative practice based on the integration of forensic, architectural, archaeological, and other methods. The group uses architecture as a methodological tool to investigate armed conflicts or environmental destruction, while simultaneously cross-referencing a whole array of evidential resources, such as new media, remote sensing, material examination, and witness testimonies.
The exhibition at the VI PER Gallery will showcase this practice through several selected projects: Living Death Camps (2013), describing the state of two concentration camps in the former Yugoslavia; Nakba Day Killings (2014), a report on the killing of two Palestinian teenagers by Israeli armed forces in the city of Beitunia in Palestine; Saydnaya (2016), a reconstruction of a prison designated for torture and the elimination of opponents of the Assad regime in Syria; Al-Jinah Mosque (2017), focusing on the mistaken strike by the U.S. military on the Al-Jinah mosque in Syria, which resulted in the deaths of several dozen civilians. Through these research projects and the detailed texts accompanying them, "forensic architecture" attempts to uncover the truth that people and society have the right to know, how their conclusions and revealed facts can be used to confront state propaganda, or how to expose the latest forms of state violence.
The exhibition will be complemented by a series of public lectures and discussions.
Curators: Irena Lehkoživová (VI PER) and Sarah Nankivell (Forensic Architecture)
More information >
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