Key Work: Lawrence Abu Hamdan on “Cross Border Crimes”
24 January 2023
Cross Border Crimes: a discussion with Lawrence Abu Hamdan of his most recent investigation Air Pressure and a screening of his latest film 45th Parallel.
Lawrence Abu Hamdan is a Private Ear, listening to, with and on behalf of people affected by corporate, state, and environmental violence. Abu Hamdan's work has been presented in the form of forensic reports, lectures and live performances, films, publications, and exhibitions all over the world. He received his PhD from the CRA in 2017 and has held fellowships and professorships at the University of Chicago, the New School, New York and most recently at the Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz where he developed his research AirPressure.info
Lawrence Abu Hamdan is a Private Ear, listening to, with and on behalf of people affected by corporate, state, and environmental violence. Abu Hamdan's work has been presented in the form of forensic reports, lectures and live performances, films, publications, and exhibitions all over the world. He received his PhD from the CRA in 2017 and has held fellowships and professorships at the University of Chicago, the New School, New York and most recently at the Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz where he developed his research AirPressure.info
Key Work: Revital Cohen & Tuur Van Balen and Daisy Hildyard
17 January 2023
Artists Revital Cohen & Tuur Van Balen and author Daisy Hildyard will talk about their work and workings. In this lecture / screening / reading, they will attempt to disentangle threads of raw materials, infection, global supply chains, reproduction, gambling and a fungus that eats compact discs.
This lecture is co-hosted between the Critical Ecologies research stream and the Centre for Research Architecture.
This lecture is co-hosted between the Critical Ecologies research stream and the Centre for Research Architecture.
FA/CRA Forum: FA + Kambanda Nokokure Veii on “Restituting Evidence: Genocide and Reparations in German Colonial Namibia”
23 November 2022
Forensic Architecture and Forensis discuss their investigation “Restituting Evidence: Genocide and Reparations in German Colonial Namibia” with Kambanda Nokokure Veii. From 1904–1908, Germany committed genocide against the Herero, Mbanderu and Nama peoples in their colony of ‘South-West Africa’ (present-day Namibia). FA and Forensis partnered with genocide activists from descendants communities to begin to produce a body of digital evidence that can be leveraged in support of demands for land restitution and reparations.
Key Work: Joel Sherwood Spring
21 November 2022
In this talk, Joel Sherwood Spring discusses his ongoing practice and research. Focussed on examining the contested narratives of
Australia’s urban cultural and Indigenous history in the face of ongoing colonisation. Spring is a Wiradjuri anti-disciplinary artist, who works collaboratively on projects that sit outside established notions of
contemporary art & architecture attempting to transfigure spatial dynamics of power through discourse,
pedagogies, art, design and architectural practice.
Key Work: Tom Keene on “Database (e)State”
31 October 2022
Database (e)State is a practice-based research project prompted by Lambeth Council’s proposed demolition of Cressingham Gardens Estate (CGE) in South London. The project explores how ‘housing databases’ are complicit in the demolition of residential social housing estates in the UK. It aims to elucidate how databases produce some of the bureaucracies and politics that emerge within residential regeneration schemes. And shows the social and technical entanglements of databases, government, activists, and residents facing demolition of their homes.