Son[i]a #207
Eyal Weizman
Eyal Weizman is an Israel-born architect, theorist, and activist who works under the conceptual umbrella of forensic architecture. This term is also the name of a research project at Goldsmiths, University of London, that has assembled a team of researchers from disciplines ranging from architecture to film and archaeology, to gather evidence that can help shed light on complex situations in contexts of armed conflict war, and use it in legal proceedings.
SON[I]A talks to Eyal Weizman about the basic principles of forensic architecture, its practical applications, and its links to the world of art and creation.
Eyal Weizman
In our second conversation with founding director of Forensic Architecture Eyal Weizman, we explore further the nuances of their sophisticated research practice, this time focusing on the notions of time and duration from a forensic perspective in order to unfold multiple temporalities from an instant. In doing so, Weizman explains how to build a case for public truth using clouds, architecture, metadata, shadows, testimonies, and surveillance and satellite imagery.
Deleted scenes
We dig up some unreleased fragments of the interview with Domènec that we were unable to include the first time around.
Domènec
Domènec talks about his working and documentation processes – what he calls “bastard research”, always straddling art, anthropology, sociology, history, journalism, and activism. He also reflects on the nature of the spaces of art as public spaces, and gives a detailed account of some of his most notable works.
The slippery materiality of untraceable objects: from the arsenic poisoning the wells of Bangladesh as told by Nabil Ahmed, to Arie Altena's account of the superstition surrounding the Kola Superdeep Borehole in Russia, or the bizarre biology of the vampire squid from hell in a passage of Vilém Flusser’s ‘Vampyroteuthis Infernalis’ read by AGF.
Deleted scenes
We dig up some unreleased fragments of the interview with Eyal Weizman that we were unable to include the first time around.