Forensic Architecture: Counter Investigations

Rajiv Vaidya Memorial Lecture

Ring Auditorium, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.

Program Curator

Forensic Architecture, 77sqm_926min, 2017. Simulation of the fluid dynamics of smell particles (ammonia) within the front room of the internet cafe where Halit Yozgat was murdered on the 6th April 2006 by a member of the neo-Nazi group known as the National Socialist Underground (NSU). Image courtesy of Dr. Salvador Navarro-Martinez and Forensic Architecture, 2017.

Forensic Architecture, an interdisciplinary research agency established in 2010 at Goldsmiths, University of London, utilizes video documentation, architectural models, new media, and other investigative techniques to examine and cross-reference human rights violations, state and corporate crimes, and environmental destruction internationally. Collaboratively working with advocacy groups, nonprofits, journalists, artists, and filmmakers, Forensic Architecture’s presentations extend beyond art and cultural practice into courtrooms and legal or political forums, including the United Nations. Their contributions have given rise to a new form of investigative practice at the threshold of art and policy. Eyal Weizman is professor of spatial and visual cultures at Goldsmiths, and the founder and director of Forensic Architecture. (Approximately 70 minutes)

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