Investigative Aesthetics: Conflicts and Commons in the Politics of Truth (Futures)

Fuller, Matthew; Weizman, Eyal

ISBN 10: 1788739086 / ISBN 13: 9781788739085

Published by Verso (edition ), 2021

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Investigative Aesthetics: Conflicts and Commons in the Politics of Truth (Futures)
• Publisher: Verso (edition )
• Publication Date: 2021
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1788739086
• ISBN 13: 9781788739085
• Binding: Paperback
• Condition: Good

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Synopsis

Today, artists are engaged in investigation. They probe corruption, state violence, environmental destruction and repressive technologies. At the same time, fields not usually associated with aesthetics make powerful use of it. Journalists and legal professionals pore over open source videos and satellite imagery to undertake visual investigations. This combination of diverse fields is what the authors call 'investigative aesthetics': mobilising sensibilities often associated with art, architecture and other such practices to find new ways of speaking truth to power.
This book draws on theories of knowledge, ecology and technology, evaluates the methods of citizen counter-forensics, micro-history and art, and examines radical practices such as those of Wikileaks, Bellingcat, and Forensic Architecture. Investigative Aesthetics takes place in the studio and the laboratory, the courtroom and the gallery, online and in the streets, as it strives towards the construction of a new 'common sensing'.
The book is an inspiring introduction to a new field that brings together investigation and aesthetics to change how we understand and confront power today.

To Nour Abuzaid for your brilliance, perseverance, and unshaken belief in the liberation of Palestine.

About the Author

Eyal Weizman directs the Centre for Research Architecture and the international investigative project, Forensic Architecture. He is the author of Hollow Land, The Least of All Possible Evils, and Forensic Architecture. After a hugely acclaimed exhibition at the ICA, Forensic Architecture was shortlisted for the 2018 Turner Prize. They have exhibited around the world, and in 2019, their work was included in the Whitney Biennial.