Manuel Herz Architects
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Manuel Herz Architects is an office for architecture and urban planning, based in Basel, Switzerland and Cologne, Germany. Amongst the recently constructed buildings is the Jewish Community Center of Mainz, the mixed-use building ‘Legal / Illegal’ in Cologne, and a museum extension (with Eyal Weizman and Rafi Segal) in Ashdod, Israel. Current projects include housing projects in Cologne, Zürich and Lyon [...]
Histoire un peu longue : l’an dernier un festival de musique allemand avait accepté comme sponsor le consulat israélien. Du coup des groupes Palestiniens l’avaient boycotté, et des groupes du monde entier leur avaient emboité le pas en solidarité.
Cette année, un autre festival de musique allemand, sous pression de groupes sionistes, avait annulé le concert d’un groupe (The Young Fathers) qui faisait partie de ces groupes solidaires. En solidarité, d’autres groupes avaient eux aussi, la semaine dernière, annulé leur participation à ce deuxième festival, tout en lui demandant de revenir sur sa décision.
C’est donc en solidarité avec les Young Fathers que le texte ci-dessous a été écrit, même si entre temps le festival est revenu à la raison, et que tous les groupes initialement prévus sont revenus dans la programmation...
Ruhrtriennale festival wrong to expel Young Fathers over support for Palestinian rights
The Guardian, le 26 juin 2018
▻https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/jun/26/ruhrtriennale-festival-wrong-to-expel-young-fathers-over-support-for-pa
Chacun ses préférés, mais moi je kiffe de voir Saleh Bakri, Cat Power, Noam Chomsky, Jarvis Cocker, Angela Davis, Brian Eno, Rebecca Foon, Peter Gabriel, Danny Glover, Ian Ilavsky, Ghada Karmi, Aki Kaurismaki, Naomi Klein, Mike Leigh, Ken Loach, Massive Attack, Thurston Moore, Viggo Mortensen, Mira Nair, Ilan Pappe, Eyal Sivan, Patti Smith, Desmond Tutu, Alice Walker, Roger Waters, Eyal Weizman, Vivienne Westwood et Don Wilkie parmi les signataires !
Traduction en français :
Le festival Ruhrtriennale aurait eu tort d’expulser les Young Fathers à cause de leur soutien aux droits des Palestiniens
The Guardian, le 26 juin 2018
▻https://www.bdsfrance.org/le-festival-ruhrtriennale-a-tort-dexpulser-les-young-fathers-a-cause-de-l
Plus de 70 artistes se mobilisent pour le droit de soutenir ouvertement la Palestine
Anaïs Lefébure, Huffington Post Maroc, le 27 juin 2018
▻https://www.huffpostmaghreb.com/entry/plus-de-70-artistes-se-mobilisent-pour-le-droit-de-soutenir-ouverte
Interview with #Forensic_Architecture Founder #Eyal_Weizman | 2018-05-01 | Architectural Record
▻https://www.architecturalrecord.com/articles/13367-interview-with-forensic-architecture-founder-eyal-weizman
Born in Israel and educated at the Architectural Association (AA), Eyal Weizman could be considered more a detective than an architect. In 2011, Weizman established Forensic Architecture, an agency based at the Centre for Research Architecture at Goldsmiths, University of London. He directs the center. The group, whose funders include the European Research Council, combs through data such as smartphone footage, satellite imagery, maps, and phone logs to create three-dimensional spatial maps of conflict sites, using architectural rendering software and other analytic tools. Significant projects have included full-scale replicas of key elements of Auschwitz gas chambers and incinerators for an exhibit at the 2016 Venice Architecture Biennale, and an investigation into the U.S. bombing of a Syrian mosque last year. The firm, which was just shortlisted for the Turner Prize, is currently scrutinizing the deadly blaze at London’s Grenfell Tower in June 2017, mining publicly available footage to create a 3-D model that will serve as an open resource for people to better understand the events that led to the fire. Weizman spoke to RECORD from the group’s office at Goldsmiths.
3quarksdaily: Terror on Trial 2: Counter Forensics
▻http://www.3quarksdaily.com/3quarksdaily/2017/04/terror-on-trial-part-two-counter-forensics.html#sthash.1uR4KGYr.uxfs
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While the murder series of the right-wing terror trio National Socialist Underground (NSU) has generally escaped major international attention (especially in comparison with Islamist terror attacks), one of the assassinations continues to come up. The murder of Halit Yozgat, the 9th assassination of the NSU, resists the fate of the others, because of one rather delicate detail: a secret service agent was present at the crime scene at the time of the murder. When Halit Yozgat was shot in the head by two members of the NSU on April 6, 2006, from a close distance with a silenced Česká CZ 83 pistol (the signature style of the NSU assassinations), Andreas Temme, an agent of the Hessian domestic intelligence service, was in the internet café in Kassel. When Halit Yozgat’s father, İsmail Yozgat, found his son when he returned to the café a few minutes after the murder, Temme was gone.
Architects seek to debunk spy’s testimony in neo-Nazi murder trial | World news | The Guardian
▻https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/apr/07/architects-called-upon-to-aid-neo-nazi-trial?CMP=share_btn_tw
Nearly five years into the trial of a German neo-Nazi gang who went on a killing spree against immigrants, relatives of the victims have become so frustrated with the police’s inability to untangle the case they have turned to a an unlikely profession in search of clues: architects.
Forensic Architecture, a London-based organisation started by architect Eyal Weizman have previously investigated war crimes in Syria, Palestine and the former Yugoslavia, using modern technology to search urban areas for evidence.
“If a pile of rubble is what’s left of your crime scene an architect may be better qualified to analyse it than [the police],” Weizman said.
For the 11th anniversary of the death of the ninth and final victim of the neo-Nazi National Socialist Underground attackers, Weizman’s researchers have turned their attention to the case of a western European state allegedly colluding in a brutal crime.
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New MA stream in Forensic Architecture - Announcements - e-flux
▻http://www.e-flux.com/announcements/77034/new-ma-stream-in-forensic-architecture
How can architecture investigate urban conflict, human rights violations, and environmental violence?
This question lies at the heart of a newly established MA stream in Forensic Architecture. It expands the pedagogical scope of Goldsmiths’ Centre for Research Architecture by creating an opportunity for students to engage with the groundbreaking work carried out by the Forensic Architecture team led by Professor Eyal Weizman.
Since its foundation in 2011, Forensic Architecture has established itself as an innovative research agency that undertakes advanced architectural and media investigations on behalf of human rights groups, threatened communities, as well as international and legal organisations.
While still continuing to participate in the full offerings of the Centre’s MA in Research Architecture, students in this stream will work on a wide range of spatial investigations in close collaboration with Forensic Architecture and its network of collaborators, including scientists, legal practitioners, and NGOs.
Dedicated weekly seminars and workshops will develop a critical toolbox of mapping and visualisation techniques, as a well as a space of theoretical reflection on questions of social, political, and environmental justice.
About the Centre for Research Architecture
The Centre for Research Architecture brings together MA and PhD students from a wide variety of backgrounds and disciplines to work through questions of contemporary culture, politics, media, ecology, and justice. We offer an alternative to traditional postgraduate architectural education through a practice-based environment that investigates the urgent political conditions of our time through a combination of fieldwork, theoretical enquiry, and forms of creative practice.
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Forensics Architecture : documenter la violence d’État
Dans une aile de l’université Goldsmiths à Londres, des architectes, cinéastes, théoriciens des médias et autres artistes inventent une nouvelle discipline, qui contribue à reconfigurer le concept et la politique des droits humains, ainsi que leur formalisation juridique. À l’intersection de la cartographie, de l’expertise judiciaire, de l’archéologie, de l’océanographie, de l’écologie, de l’iconographie, dans tous les lieux où s’exerce une violence d’État contre des citoyens, ils redéfinissent les notions de preuve, de crime, et contribuent à modifier le droit international tout en révélant la violence sous-jacente.
►http://visionscarto.net/forensics-architecture-entretien-vacarme
BDS c’est résister au fascisme qui monte en occident
Global Empire : Eyal Weizman : Excavating Israel
►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.
#BDS #Israël #Palestine #Etats-Unis #Union-Européenne #refus-du-droit-international #réfugiés #fascisme #racisme #crise-de-la-démocratie #complexe-militaro-industriel #services-de-renseignements #industrie-de-l'armement #données-privées
Global Empire: #Eyal_Weizman: Excavating on Vimeo : a discussion with tariq Ali
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.
Forensics Architecture : documenter la violence d’État - Entretien avec Eyal Weizman, Christina Varvia et Lorenzo Pezzani (@Vacarme)
►http://visionscarto.net/forensics-architecture-entretien-vacarme
vous avez déjà pu lire cet entretien sur ►http://www.vacarme.org/article2751.html ; il était tellement intéressant et mobilisateur que nous avons voulu le faire circuler également sur visionscarto :
À l’intersection de la cartographie, de l’expertise judiciaire, de l’archéologie, de l’océanographie, de l’écologie, de l’iconographie, dans tous les lieux où s’exerce une violence d’État contre des citoyens, ils redéfinissent les notions de preuve, de crime, et contribuent à modifier le droit international tout en révélant la violence sous-jacente.
Eyal Weizman est le fondateur de Forensic Architecture, où travaillent également les chercheur·e·s Christina Varvia et Lorenzo Pezzani ; entretien réalisé par Philippe Mangeot & Laure Vermeersch
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!”
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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
In the West Bank, for example, only small islands of space on the surface were given to the Palestinians to control as part of the Oslo accords. Israel kept sovereignty of other layers: the water aquifers, the air space. “Borders are not only on the surface,” he says. “You see it very clearly in Gaza through the tunnels and the rockets.”
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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Le Monde diplomatique
►http://www.monde-diplomatique.fr/2010/07/KEENAN/19401
A la recherche d’un nouvel ennemi : Israël et la troisième menace
par Thomas Keenan et Eyal Weizman, juillet 2010
L’assaut de la marine israélienne contre la flottille humanitaire pour Gaza et la mort de neuf passagers ont soulevé une large réprobation internationale. Loin d’être une simple bavure, cette attaque confirme le tournant radical pris par les autorités israéliennes vis-à-vis du droit humanitaire international et des organisations de défense de la personne.
Il faudra encore éclaircir de nombreux détails dans la manière dont un commando de la marine israélienne s’est emparé au petit matin du 31 mai 2010 du Mavi-Marmara, le navire amiral de la flottille humanitaire pour Gaza. Quelles que soient les révélations de l’enquête, ce raid israélien témoigne de deux nouveaux développements, à la fois parallèles et liés : la politisation croissante de l’assistance humanitaire, et la défiance grandissante des autorités israéliennes vis-à-vis des organisations de défense des droits humains et du droit international.