FORENSIC ARCHITECTURE 48
Center za sodobno naravo (CCN)
Centre for Contemporary Nature (CCN)
Forensic Architecture kot raziskovalna agencija izvaja napredne prostorske in medijske raziskave primerov kršitev človekovih pravic, v imenu oz. v sodelovanju s skupnostmi, prizadetimi zaradi političnega nasilja, organizacijami za človekove pravice, mednarodnimi tožilci, posebnimi skupinami za okoljsko pravičnost in medijskimi organizacijami. Eden izmed oddelkov za raziskave Forensic Architecture je namenjen raziskovanju nasilja nad okoljem; enota se imenuje Center za sodobno naravo (CCN). Premisa, na kateri temelji delovanje CCN, je, da čeprav je bila narava skozi zgodovino razumljena le kot statično ozadje človeških aktivnosti, moramo danes naravo razumeti kot situiran zgodovinski projekt. V dobi obsežne okoljske škode in hitrih, antropogenih podnebnih sprememb se ‘sodobna narava’ s človeško zgodovino posodablja, prepleta in z njo stopa v interakcijo. Velik del antropogenih sprememb našega okolja je konflikt. Nasilje nad okoljem lahko poteka počasi, posredno in razpršeno, a je zagotovo vpeto v kolonialne in vojaške oblike nadvlade. V sklopu pričujoče razstave Forensic Architecture prikazuje raziskovanje izraelske uporabe vojaških herbicidov na okupiranem območju Gaze v Palestini, kjer se uničevanje okolja uporablja kot sredstvo ustanavljanja in utrditve meje. Raziskava opisuje oblike uničenja, počasne in hitre, s čimer želi razširiti način razmišljanja o nasilju v kontekstu kolonialne nadvlade.
As a research agency Forensic Architecture undertakes advanced spatial and media investigations into cases of human rights violations, with and on behalf of communities affected by political violence, human rights organisations, international prosecutors, environmental justice groups, and media organisations. One of our research divisions in Forensic Architecture is dedicated to examining environmental violence. We call this unit the Center for Contemporary Nature (CCN). The premise of CCN is that while historically, nature has been understood as a static, eternal backdrop against which human activity unfolds, today we must understand it as a situated historical project. In the era of massive environmental damage and rapid, anthropogenic climate change, ‘contemporary nature’ is being updated alongside human history, interacting and becoming entangled with it. A large part of anthropogenic changes to our environment is conflict. Violence against the environment may be slow, indirect, and diffused but it is enmeshed in colonial and military forms of domination. In this exhibition, Forensic Architecture presents its investigation of the Israeli use of military herbicides in the occupied Gaza Strip in Palestine, where environmental destruction is mobilised as part of the production and fortification of the border. This investigation describes forms of destruction that are both slow and fast, expanding the way of thinking about violence in the context of colonial domination.
Forensic Architecture: Eyal Weizman (direktor / Director of Forensic Architecture), Samaneh Moafi (raziskovalka, CCN / Researcher, CCN), Shourideh C. Molavi (koordinatorica raziskav in projektov Research and Project Coordination), Robert Preusse, Robert Trafford, Imani Jacqueline Brown, Stefan Laxness, Grace Quah, Sarah Nankivell
