Presentation
About Forensis
About Forensic Achitecture
Credits
Presentation
Forensis
Forensic Architecture
Opening: Saturday, September 26th. 2015- 17 hs
Curators: Eyal Weizman - Anselm Franke - Rosario Güiraldes
Organization: Forensic Architecture – Fundación Proa – HKW
(Haus der Kulturen der Welt)
Sponsored by: Tenaris – Techint Organization
Del 26 de septiembre al 11 de noviembre de 2015, Fundación Proa presenta
la novedosa exhibición Forensis, del equipo de investigación multidisciplinario
Forensic Architecture, especializado en revelar e investigar las circunstancias políticas
y sociales en donde transcurren los conflictos contemporáneos.
Retomando el concepto de foro, Forensis remite a un espacio en donde los hombres
se reúnen para participar conjuntamente de la vida pública. La exhibición da
cuenta de este concepto e intenta poner a disposición del visitante la posibilidad
de participar, como en el foro, en diversos y variados proyectos. Las imágenes de
dominio público son satelitales, en 3D, videos y fotografías profesionales o de ciudadanos
anónimos subidas a la web.
Las nuevas y actuales metodologías científicas y tecnológicas, utilizadas por Forensic
Architecture – un multidisciplinario grupo de arquitectos, urbanistas, artistas
y cineastas – estudia espacios en donde se altera el tejido social y urbano por
los conflictos político y sociales contemporáneos.
Concibiendo la investigación como una práctica dinámica y viva, que no debe ser
clausurada, Eyal Weizman, investigador principal del equipo, enuncia que “la verdad
es un proyecto común en permanente construcción”.
El espectador contemporáneo, atravesado por múltiples discursos, no logra ubicarse
o reaccionar ante la compleja cartografía global del presente. La exposición Forensis expone siete proyectos, de diversos continentes y lugares del planeta, y construye
una mirada global con tecnologías de avanzada y herramientas cotidianas de nuestro
entorno. Genera así un espacio de reflexión que posibilita una lectura viva de los acontecimientos actuales que involucra e interpela directamente al espectador.
Forensis nos invita a una exhibición de características únicas e inéditas, para reflexionar sobre el mundo actual a través de la mirada de un equipo internacional de especialistas alojados en la Universidad de Goldsmiths, en Londres, desde donde articulan sus estudios espaciales y culturales de alcance global.
Tanto por su contenido como por su forma, Forensis cuestiona las prácticas artísticas
contemporáneas y propone un debate sobre el lugar del sujeto moderno en los diversos
conflictos globales que lo atraviesan social, cultural, espacial y materialmente.
La exhibición cuenta con la curaduría de Eyal Weisman, Anselm Franke y
Rosario Güiraldes.
Actividades Paralelas: Los días 8 y 9 de octubre el curador Eyal Weizman
visitará nuestro país. Junto a un grupo de investigadores argentinos, brindará un seminario sobre la exhibición y las nuevas formas de abordaje para leer el
espacio contemporáneo.
About Forensis
Forensis is Latin for “pertaining to the forum” and is the root of the term forensics. The Roman forum was a multidimensional space in which humans and objects participated in politics, law and the economy. With the advent of modernity, ‘forensics’ shifted in meaning to refer exclusively to the domain of law and to the use of science in courts. It became central to the ways states police and govern their subjects, and, through its representations in mass media, a defining feature of contemporary culture. Returning to the wider concepts of forensis, however, this exhibition seeks to unlock the potential of forensics as a public, political practice.
This exhibition presents the work of Forensic Architecture, a unique forensic agency composed of architects, artists, filmmakers, theorists, lawyers and scientists, as well as that of its close collaborators and guests. Forensic Architecture is a counter-forensic agency that seeks to invert the direction of the forensic gaze in order to confront abuses of power by states and corporations in situations that bear upon political struggle, violent conflict, and climate change.
Forensic Architecture examines buildings, ruins, cities, satellite imagery and increasingly an emergent type of testimony: images and clips taken by citizens and uploaded online. The evidence is put at the service of international prosecution teams, political organizations, NGOs, and the United Nations. From the drone warfare in the frontier regions of Pakistan, through the forests of Central and South America, to the battlefields of Israel-Palestine, the exhibition shows how exposing the logic of violent conflict raises a host of theoretical, historical and aesthetic questions to do with the thresholds of vision and law.
About Forensic Architecture
Forensic Architecture is a research project based at Goldsmiths, University of London. The project has assembled a team of architects, artists, filmmakers, activists, and theorists to undertake research that gathers and presents spatial analysis in legal and political forums.
Eyal Weizman
Born in 1970 in Haifa, Israel and leaves in London. Eyal Weizman is an architect, Professor of Spatial and Visual Cultures, and Director of the Centre for Research Architecture at Goldsmiths, University of London. He is a founding member of the architectural collective DAAR in Beit Sahour/Palestine. His books include Mengele’s Skull (with Thomas Keenan at Sterenberg Press, 2012), Forensic Architecture (dOCUMENTA13 notebook, 2012), The Least of all Possible Evils (Nottetempo 2009, Verso 2011), Hollow Land (Verso, 2007), A Civilian Occupation (Verso, 2003), the series Territories 1,2 and 3, Yellow Rhythms and many articles in journals, magazines and edited books. He has worked with a variety of NGOs worldwide, and was a member of the B’Tselem board of directors. He lectured, curated and organised conferences in many institutions worldwide.
Anselm Franke
Born in 1978 in Heiligenberg, south of Germany. Curator and writer based in Berlin. He is Head of Visual Art and Film at the Haus der Kulturen der Welt. In 2012, he curated the Taipei Biennial, Modern Monsters / Death and Life of Fiction. His project Animism was presented in Antwerp, Bern, Vienna, Berlin, New York, Shenzhen, Seoul and Beirut in various collaborations from 2010 to 2014. At the Haus der Kulturen der Welt, he co-curated The Whole Earth. California and the Disappearance of the Outside (with Diedrich Diederichsen), and After Year Zero. Geographies of Collaboration (both 2013).
Rosario Güiraldes
Born in 1984 in Buenos Aires, Argentina. Lives and work in New York. She is an architect and curator. She is currently completing a Masters Degree in Curatorial Studies in CCS Bard College. Her curatorial investigation is based on the structural conditions of the contemporary art scene. En 2011 she founded Peña, an independent project that seeks to support the work of artists. She also curated the Espacio Contemporáneo at Fundación Proa in 2013. En 2014 she co-curated Air Guitar in CCS Bard and the panel (IM)MATERIAL: Industrial and Post-Industrial Fabrication in Fundación Judd, New York.
Credits
FORENSIC ARCHITECTURE:
Eyal Weizman (dir.), Francesco Sebregondi, Susan Schuppli, Mohammed Abdullah, Nick Axel, Reiner Beelitz, Jacob Burns, Blake Fisher, Rosario Güiraldes, Hania Halabi, Lawrence Abu Hamdan, Samir Harb, Zahra Hussain, Kent Klich, Steffen Kramer, Shourideh C. Molavi, Dorette Panagiotopoulou, John Pines, Shela Sheikh, Camila E. Sotomayor, Ana Naomi de Souza, Paulo Tavares, Gustav A. Toftgaard, Jamon Van Den Hoek, Vere Van Gool, Christina Varvia.
COLLABORATORS: SITU Research Group, UCL Bartlett MA Urban Design.
ORGANIZED BY: Al Mezan/Gaza, Amnesty International, Defence for Children International, UN Special Rapporteur for Counter Terrorism and Human Rights, NGO Torture Never More (São Paulo).
GRAPHIC DESIGN ORIGINAL EXHIBITION: Julia Born & Laurenz
FUNDACIÓN PROA:
Programming
Cintia Mezza - Cecilia Jaime / PROA
Design
SPIN, Londres
Guillermo Goldschmidt / PROA
Assembly
Soledad Oliva - Pablo Zaefferer
Press
Josefina Insausti - Víctor López Zumelzu
Education Department
Paulina Guarnieri
Rosario García Martínez
Camila Villarruel
Laura Ferreiros
Agostina Gabanetta
Educators
Noemí Aira
Juan Carlos Urrutia
Cora Papic
Assembly Team
Javier Aparicio
Leandro Barzabal
Ale Giorgga
Hernán Salvo
Hernán Torres