Forensic Aesthetics - Closing Remarks: Srdjan Jovanovich Weiss | The New School

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Closing Remarks: Srdjan Jovanovich Weiss, Tyler School of Art, Architecture Department, Temple University

Forensic Aesthetics positions "things" as "witnesses" and ascribes to them the power of speech and therefore an agency similar to that of the testimony of human witnesses of a crime. With a focus on the staging of such material witness accounts, the participants examine the political implications of calling on things.

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Among the participants are anthropologists Anselm Franke and Hugh Raffles (The New School); international forensic experts such as Eric Stover; architects, architectural historians and anti-terrorist design engineers such as Eve Hinman, Joanna Merwood-Salisbury (The New School), Srdjan Jovanovic Weiss, and Eyal Weizman; historians of art Brigid Doherty and Spyros Papapetros; Tom Keenan; and artists Sara Jordeno, Susan Schuppli and Arne Svenson.

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Presented by the Vera List Center for Art and Politics at The New School and co-sponsored and co-organized with The Forensic Architecture ERC Projectat The Centre for Research Architecture, Goldsmiths, University of London, and The Human Rights Project at Bard College, on occasion of the Vera List Center's 2011-2013 focus theme "Thingness."

Location: Wollman Hall, Eugene Lang Building
11/05/2011 5:30 -- 6:00 p.m.

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