#eyal_weizman

Global Empire: #Eyal_Weizman: Excavating #Israel on Vimeo : a discussion with tariq Ali

►https://vimeo.com/167062251

Tariq Ali talks to Eyal Weizmann, Professor of Spacial and Visual Cultures Goldsmiths, University of London, about the pressure being applied by Israel on the White House and EU to illegalise the BDS (Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions) campaign.

#occupation #démolition #colonisation #palestine #bds

#expulsions_frontières (d’israel)

avec une petite recherche rapide et en français sur internet (en anglais avec « denied entry » on en trouve plein d’autres comme :
▻http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/worldviews/wp/2014/04/27/these-accounts-from-arab-americans-show-why-an-israeli-visa-waiver-p )

Mohamed Omer, 2008
▻http://www.info-palestine.net/article.php3?id_article=6860

Edvige, 2008
▻http://www.protection-palestine.org/spip.php?article6431

Anne-Claire Delmas, 2008
▻http://www.protection-palestine.org/spip.php?article6682

Richard Falk, rapporteur de l’ONU, 2008
▻http://unispal.un.org/UNISPAL.NSF/0/26D5CA4D5AB9024285257521006D8D6F

Isabelle Martin, 2009
▻http://www.protection-palestine.org/spip.php?article7732

124 militants, 2011
▻http://www.lexpress.fr/actualite/monde/israel-124-militants-pro-palestiniens-arretes-en-attente-d-etre-expulses_10

Juan Marmot, 2012
▻http://rue89.nouvelobs.com/2012/07/27/interroge-retenu-puis-expulse-mon-tres-court-voyage-en-israel-23417

Gary Spedding, 2014
▻http://www.air-journal.fr/2014-01-14-refoule-disrael-pour-ses-tweets-activistes-595945.html

Maria Angela Holguin, ministre colombienne 2014
▻http://www.haaretz.com/news/diplomacy-defense/1.626469

Rashida Manjoo, rapporteur de l’ONU, 2015
▻http://www.jpost.com/Arab-Israeli-Conflict/Because-she-asked-to-visit-Palestine-Israel-bars-entry-of-UN-official-to-West

Mohamed Kadri et Soraya Misleh, 2015
►http://cspconlutas.org.br/2015/04/amanha-vai-ser-outro-dia-por-soraya-misleh

Philomène Constant et Bastien Anthoine, 2015
►http://blogs.mediapart.fr/blog/virginie-rodde/240415/nuit-dhorreur-ben-gourion-pour-deux-etudiants-musiciens

Jalys Chibout, 2015
►http://www.lexpress.fr/actualite/politique/retenu-48h-en-israel-puis-expulse-un-jeune-militant-du-pcf-cherche-a-compre

Blade Nzimande, ministre sud-africain, 2015
►http://www.maannews.com/Content.aspx?id=765061

#Palestine #Expulsion #Aéroport #Racisme #Douane #Frontière
#recension

Eyal Weizman sur la compréhension de la politique via l’architecture, les colonies et les refuseniks
Amelia Smith, Middle East Monitor, le 24 novembre 2014
▻http://www.agencemediapalestine.fr/blog/2014/12/28/eyal-weizman-sur-la-comprehension-de-la-politique-via-larchitec

Documentaire sur Al Jazeera :
►http://www.aljazeera.com/programmes/rebelarchitecture/2014/06/architecture-violence-2014629113556647744.html

#Eyal_Weizman #Palestine #Architecture #Urbanisme #Apartheid #Occupation #Colonisation

#Eyal_Weizman on understanding politics through #architecture, settlements and refuseniks
"We need to remember that some of the most beautiful pieces of architecture, that we all love and we all travel to see, have been military fortifications and sites of battles and execution, or beautiful castles that had a repressive social, political and military use. Architecture cannot be “tainted” by its use, because its use is part of what it is, what it does. Architecture has always been a means to create hierarchies in space to produce and represent inequality, and to exercise control."
▻http://www.middleeastmonitor.com/resources/interviews/15426-eyal-weizman-on-understanding-politics-through-architecture

cc @reka

What can ‘forensic architecture’ reveal about the conflict in Gaza? | Cities | The Guardian

▻http://www.theguardian.com/cities/2014/sep/01/what-can-forensic-architecture-reveal-about-the-conflict-in-gaza

Eyal Weizman explains architecture’s key role in the Israeli occupation of Palestine and the evolution of urban warfare.

–—> Et c’est brillaint !

▻https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=778LGY6-NC4

The latest instalment of the six-part film series Rebel Architecture opens with architect Eyal Weizman approaching one of the watchtowers along the separation wall that runs through the West Bank. An Israeli soldier shouts down, audible but invisible in the turret room: “Don’t come any closer!”

▻http://i.guim.co.uk/w-620/h--/q-95/sys-images/Guardian/Pix/pictures/2014/8/27/1409138517327/72f208a4-354d-40e1-a357-8248e893a9a3-620x372.jpeg

Weizman shouts back in response: “Why? Is this place only yours? It’s everybody’s place. Is that tube your home? It’s not even your home, and you’re sitting in that tube telling me what to do.”

Weizman has a reputation for being fearless. Fresh out of architecture school in London, the Haifa-born architect was commissioned along with colleague Rafi Seagal to showcase the best of Israeli architecture at the International Union of Architects Congress in Berlin, in 2002. He presented settlements. The Israel Association of United Architects withdrew their support, cancelled the exhibition and destroyed the catalogues. The move won him worldwide attention.

#palestine #colonisation #occupation #architecture #forensic_architecture #eyal_weizman

Invasion of Gaza: Architecture’s Violence at Work | The Funambulist
▻http://thefunambulist.net/2014/07/17/palestine-invasion-of-gaza-architectures-violence-at-work

While I am writing these words, the Israeli army is starting its land invasion of the Gaza strip, thus providing the conditions for the continuation of the massacre that this army has been undertaking this last week. Once again, the fact of writing about the on-going tragedy unfolding in front of our eyes constitutes for me to insists on the (infra)structural conditions that foresee it, as well as enforces it to some degree.

http://thefunambulistdotnet.files.wordpress.com/2014/07/2008-9-15-16-53-13-a3c34fe165ac46faa3a90e258cb50545-a3c34fe165ac46faa3a90e258cb50545-2-1.jpg?w=640&h=426&crop=1

The spectacularization of many aspects of the IDF’s militarized operations (via their Twitter account for example), coupled with their despicable interpretation as a sort of show by an Israeli ‘audience,’ as I wrote in the previous article, provide us with the comparison of the Roman games and their dramatic display of death. In the case of these games, the stage for the spectacle is insured by the architecture of the amphitheater itself that enforces the presence of the victims inside the circus, the doors being accessible only by the agent of death, whether executioners or wild animals. The doors to the Gaza strip are not numerous (five plus one in Egypt: see the map in previous article) but, similarly to the Roman amphitheater, they open only for the asymmetrical agent of death, in this case the troops and vehicles of the IDF. The population of Gaza is thus prisoners from the walls while the latter’s porosity is controllable at wish by the Israeli army: architecture’s power is fully exercised.

#gaza #architecture #eyal_weizman

#Gaza attacks: Lethal warnings
#Eyal_Weizman
▻http://www.aljazeera.com/indepth/opinion/2014/07/gaza-attacks-lethal-warnings-2014713162312604305.html

Very often both journalists and commentators - even those sympathetic to the Palestinian plight - are lost for words when asked to explain what is wrong with warnings. Would you rather, the Israeli Army insinuates, that it uses no warnings at all? How, after critiquing indiscriminate and inaccurate strikes, to protest tactics whose entire logic is to be more precise in choosing between perpetrators and bystanders?

To be asked to choose the lesser evil from a limited set of choices is a fallacy. Those posing lesser-evil dilemmas are always those in power and the problem is always concerned with the death and fate of others.

At the Salha family home there was no weapon cache, no militant headquarters. The Israeli Army simply made a mistake, and later admitted as such. Yet when the few surviving members of the Salha family petitioned the Israeli court for compensation, their case was curtly dismissed. The judge explained that Israel was not liable to consequences resulting from an act of war, and ordered the Salha family to pay the court the costs incurred in bringing the case.

Today in Gaza, the combination of the technology of precision strikes with the legal tactics of warning allows the expansion of the depleted bank of targets and the proliferation of violence. From the air, Israel has started destroying - after warnings of course - not only places it claims are weapon caches but also the houses of Hamas’ field command. Now the target list seems to have extended even to include attacks on hospitals. On July 11, four warning missiles were fired at the Al Wafaa hospital, close to the Israeli border.

With this combination, the Israeli Army has found a tool to enable it to strike targets it should not be striking at all - targets of little military effect, in built-up areas that house many civilians. Since it now has such a tool, the Israeli Army will go on using it until somebody forces them to stop. Confronting Israeli tactics of warning is now a matter of utmost urgency.

Eyal Weizman : FORENSIS: The architecture of public truth

Je signale cette conférence parce que j’admire l’engagement et l’oeuvre d’Eyal Weizman. Et j’espère que sa conférence sera écoutable ou regardable quelque part sur Internet.

Thursday 16 January
APL Annual Lecture

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Eyal Weizman : FORENSIS: The architecture of public truth

(Curtis Auditorium)

The lecture will present a set of investigations and critical reflections that employ the term forensis to designate a condition by which intensified forms of material and spatial analysis transform the ways political struggles are understood and engaged with.
Forensis is Latin for “pertaining to the forum” and it is the origins of the term forensics; but by returning to the origins in forensis – as the lecture will attempt to demonstrate – seek to depart from the ways in which the term forensics is currently employed - as scientific investigation undertaken in the context of the law.

The intensification of architectural research is central to our project. Architecture is employed as a field of knowledge and as a mode of interpretation, one not only concerned with buildings but rather with an ever-changing set of relations between people and things across multiple scales: from the human body to human induced climate change, from the scale of a single home to the scale of the earth as the ultimate home, that we understood as both a planetary scale architectural construction site and also as a potential ruin. The lecture will move along two trajectories that are both interdependent and contradictory. On the one hand it will present work produced in the context of a “forensic agency” that was established in 2011 at the Centre for Research Architecture at Goldsmiths under the title “forensic architecture”. This agency was unique in that our members - architects, artists, filmmakers and theorists, rather than scientists and pathologists - undertook the investigations. Within this agency we investigated the actions of corporations and states in relation to violent conflict, military repression, and climate change in Palestine, Equador, Chile, Pakistan, Yemen …the agency follows its own research agenda, and each of our investigations was chosen because of the urgency of the situation and for allowing the research project to demonstrate how methodological innovations in the production of new types of evidence can open up legal process and also the political imagination. We have offered our analysis to civil organizations, NGOs, activist groups, and were even selected to lead the UN special Raporteur for HR’s investigation on Drone warfare presented in the General Assembly in October 2013. We also work with prosecutors who presented in various legal and political forums in different locations worldwide.

On the other hand the lecture will present a historical, theoretical and artistic investigation into forensic practices and this in order to critically evaluate their epistemologies, assumptions, protocols, and politics of knowledge production. In short we both used forensics and critically evaluated the tools with which it is undertaken. This double strategy was necessary because of the fundamental political ambiguity we had towards the practice of forensics. The history of forensics is of course the history of the techniques by which states police individuals. Its span includes the phrenological strategies of the mid 19th century and the digital eavesdropping of yesterday. The courts in which forensics is asked to perform embody of course the logic of the states that established them. But forensis could become a counter hegemonic practice that could invert the relation between individuals and states, helping to challenge state and corporate violence and the tyranny of their truth.

Eyal Weizman is an architect, Professor of Visual Cultures and Director of the Centre for Research Architecture at Goldsmiths, University of London. Since 2007 he is a founding member of the architectural collective DAAR in Beit Sahour/Palestine. Weizman has been a Professor of Architecture at the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna and has also taught at the Bartlett UCL in London and the Staedel School in Frankfurt. He has lectured, curated and organised conferences in many institutions worldwide. His books include Mengele’s Skull (with Thomas Keenan at Sterenberg Press, 2012), Forensic Architecture (dOCUMENTA13 notebook, 2012), The Least of all Possible Evils (Nottetempo 2009, Verso 2011), Hollow Land (Verso, 2007), A Civilian Occupation (Verso, 2003), the series Territories 1,2 and 3, Yellow Rhythms and many articles in journals, magazines and edited books.

Eyal Weizman is a regular contributor and an editorial board member for several journals and magazines including Humanity, Inflexions and Cabinet where he has edited a special issue on forensics (issue 43, 2011). He has worked with a variety of NGOs worldwide and was member of B’Tselem board of directors. He is currently on the advisory boards of the Institue of Contemporary Arts (ICA) in London, the Human Rights Project at Bard College in New York, and of other academic and cultural institutions. Professor Weizman is the recipient of the James Stirling Memorial Lecture Prize for 2006-2007, a co-recipient of the 2010 Prince Claus Prize for Architecture (for DAAR) and was invited to deliver the Rusty Bernstein, Paul Hirst, Nelson Mandela, Mansour Armaly and the Edward Said Memorial Lectures amongst others. He studied architecture at the Architectural Association in London and completed his PhD at the London Consortium/Birkbeck College.

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