Event overview
As part of the Visual Cultures Guest Lecture Series, Dr. Eyal Weizman will deliver a lecture on forensic practices and material history.
How does history get registered in material organisation? How could matter testify? Would it ever lie? These questions are investigated in relation to the gradual introduction of forensic practices in the context of international law.
EYAL WEIZMAN studied architecture at the Architectural Association in London and completed his PhD at the London Consortium, Birkbeck College. He was Professor of Architecture at the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna. His work includes buildings and stage sets in Israel/Palestine and Europe. Weizman works with a variety of NGOs and Human right groups in Israel/Palestine. He co-curated the exhibition A Civilian Occupation, The Politics of Israeli Architecture, and co-edited the publication of the same title. These projects were based on his human-rights research, and were banned by the Israeli Association of Architects. They were later shown in the exhibition Terriories in New York, Berlin, Rotterdam, San Francisco, Malmoe, Tel Aviv and Ramallah. Weizman has taught, lectured and organised conferences in many institutions worldwide. His books include Hollow Land [forthcoming with Verso Books], A Civilian Occupation [Verso Books, 2003], the series Territories 1,2 and 3, Yellow Rhythms and many articles in journals, magazines and edited books. Weizman is a regular contributors to many journals and magazines and is an editor at large for Cabinet Magazine (New York). Weizman is the recipient of the James Stirling Memorial Lecture Prize for 2006-2007.
Dates & times
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29 Apr 2010 | 5:00pm - 7:00pm |
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