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Three Doors—Forensic Architecture/Forensis, Initiative 19 opens at Frankfurter Kunstverein (FKV). Featuring London-based Forensic Architecture working with local partners, the show (re)presents evidence in three instances of racially motivated violence in Germany. Oury Jalloh’s Cell: Smoke Traces (2022, image), demonstrates the central architectural motif, by modelling the circumstances of an African asylum seeker’s burning death, while in police custody in 2005.
In the first of six performances, Kerry Guinan ’s The Red Thread links six industrial sewing machines at Dublin’s The Complex with six counterparts at a garment factory in Bangalore, India. “The kinetic installation appears to be self-operating, but there are puppeteers in hiding,” the Irish artist notes about the workers over 8,000 kilometers away. By eliminating that distance, she hopes to “make visceral the extraordinary scale, and underlying humanity, of the globalised economy.”
“The Terraforming was convened on behalf of new foundations for a viable planetary future. This takes on critical urgency when that future is put in direct peril. To ensure that the future is not canceled is a fight we cannot lose.”
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Benjamin Bratton , theorist and Strelka Institute
program director , on the Moscow non-profit suspending activities in protest of Russian aggression. “We join the urgent calls for peace and for refusal and resistance to the present violence,” writes Bratton.
“Unruly Archives,” an exhibition surfacing traces of “the global footprint of warfare and organized violence,” opens at The Blackwood in Mississauga, Canada. Curated by Amin Alsaden , conflict-focused works by Emily Jacir , Walid Raad , and Zineb Sedira are included. Iraqi artist Ali Eyal’s contribution 6×9 doesn’t fit everything
“Terror Contagion” opens at Montréal’s MAC. Centre stage is Forensic Architecture ’s Digital Violence: How the NSO Group Enables State Terror , which probes the Israeli technology firm behind Pegasus , malware used to monitor the calls, emails, texts, and sensor data of activists and dissidents worldwide. At MAC, these findings are presented in an immersive installation featuring data sonification by Brian Eno and narration by Edward Snowden, and complemented by Laura Poitras ’ latest film, documenting the research.
OUT NOW :
Dani Ploeger
Deserted Devices and Wasted Fences
Drawing on field research in conflict and disruption zones, the Dutch
artist and cultural theorist examines “everyday technologies in extreme circumstances”
In an interview conducted in the wake of her current solo show, “Twisted ,” at New York’s New Museum, American media artist Lynn Hershman Leeson reflects on five decades of interrogating emerging technologies. Known for making poignant statements about surveillance, bioengineering, and AI (image: Seduction of a Cyborg , 1994), Leeson notes that “every single advancement in technology had its base in warfare. There’s an inherent strand in the DNA of these inventions that leads them to assault. We have to cure that.”
“I’m stunned that they forced the removal of our ‘solidarity with Palestine’ statement which forms part of our exhibition. That they did so following the pressure from a lobbying group known to platform the extreme-right settler movement in Israel is an affront to human rights, in Palestine and elsewhere.”
“I don’t want Liyla to be relevant anymore. I want this game to be a part of history, not a part of the present time.”
– Palestinian software engineer
Rasheed Abueideh , on the timeliness of
Liyla and the Shadows of War , his 2016 videogame about a father’s (futile) attempts to protect his daughter during the 2014 bombings of the Gaza Strip. “In this game, even if you think that you have a choice, you don’t,” he says. “You’re powerless and weak. I wanted the players to get a glimpse of that feeling.”
Sam Durant’s Untitled (drone) High Line Plinth , a space for public art in Manhattan’s iconic rail-line park. Sitting atop a 25-foot pole, the life-sized fibreglass sculpture of a Predator drone appears to hover over 10th Avenue, “reminding the public that drones and surveillance are a tragic and pervasive presence in the daily lives of many living outside—and within—the United States,” says Durant. The piece is the second Plinth commission selected from over 50 submissions in 2016. It will be on view through August 2022.
“Within the carefully tended landscape of the mother of all biennials, the role geopolitical conflict plays in ‘living together’ is generally avoided. It seems it is easier to envision a utopian future than come to terms with the dystopias we inhabit.”
– Writer and curator
Barbara Casavecchia , on the misguided optimism of the 17th Venice Architecture Biennale, “whose model is still based on a geography of nation states”
“Unmanned aircraft were seen as popular because U.S. soldiers didn’t have to go to the battlefield. But what about the casualties in the countries that were attacked by our drones?“ American artist Sam Durant asks in a wide-ranging interview about his new public artwork Untitled (drone) . “The idea was to bring this conversation home to America.” Originally conceived in 2016, Durant’s life-sized fiberglass sculpture of a Predator drone will be installed atop a 25-foot-tall pole on New York’s High Line in May.
“I think there should be no such thing as billionaires and that Space is a commons and a place for the public good, where civilization at large does its work through its governments to try to protect Earth’s biosphere … it doesn’t work, to make a profit in space.”
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