In this video, architect Eyal Weizman reports on the work of the interdisciplinary Forensic Architecture (FA), which is committed to investigating human rights violations by states, police forces, the military, and companies. The agency that Weizman founded at Goldsmiths, University of London uses the architecture, where traces such as bullet holes or devastation caused by explosions can be identified, as evidence. The course of events can be reconstructed and documented with the help of city maps, satellite images, mobile phone footage, and witness reports.
“State violence is twofold: it targets people, and it targets the truth. Denial is not just rhetorical. It is an enabling condition; a mode of violence in itself. It creates the conditions under which violence can continue unchallenged.”
— Eyal Weizman
