26 September 2024
11 settembre 2001 Park, via Azzo Gardino, Bologna
Talk with Ariel Caine | Forensic Architecture
Screening of Destruction and Return in al-Araqib and Ground Truth | Forensic Architecture
7 pm
On Thursday 26 September from 7 p.m. at 11 September 2001 Park, in cooperation with the FARM Association, the last event of the Green Screen – film and ecology will be held.
The event will start with a talk with Forensic Architecture – Ariel Caine, which will be followed by the screening of Destruction and Return in al-Araqib and Ground Truth, works about the expropriation of Bedouin land in the northern Naqab desert in Palestine.
Both videos illustrate the research carried out by FA together with the Bedouin community in the village of al-Araqib, which has been demolished over 170 times in the past sixty years. According to Israeli authorities, the village did not exist before the creation of the State of Israel in 1948, which would therefore make its inhabitants trespassers and the settlements illegal. In addition, the Israeli government’s idea of “making the desert bloom again” underlies the dispossessions of Bedouin families, who are being forced to move in the name of an ambiguous ideological ideal of planting trees in the desert. The forced displacement and criminalization of these communities has resulted in their isolation from infrastructure and the erasure of their territories from maps; the land reforestation works implemented by the Israeli government transform the landscape, erasing and obscuring the material remains of the Bedouin families’ enduring presence in the region.
These works have been exhibited at the Architecture Biennale in Venice (2016), MACBA in Barcelona (2017), MUAC in Mexico City (2017), ICA in London, temple Bar Galley + Studio in Dublin (2020), among others. The work has been nominated for the Turner Prize in London in 2019.
Free admission. The event will be in English and in Italian.
In case of rain the event will be held soon DAS – Dispositivo Arti Sperimentali, via del Porto 11/2. In that case, admission will be free with Arci membership card.
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Ariel Caine is a London-based artist and researcher, born in Jerusalem. His practice focuses on the intersection of spatial (three-dimensional) photography, modeling and survey technologies, and how they function within the production of cultural memories and national narratives. Caine is currently a lecturer in the Department of Culture, Communication and Media at University College London. Between 2016 and 2021 he was project coordinator and researcher at the Forensic Architecture agency at Goldsmiths University of London. Since 2023, together with Kineret Lourie, he has founded and managed Chemist Gallery in London.
Forensic Architecture (FA) is a research agency based at Goldsmiths, University of London, consisting of architects, artists, filmmakers, journalists, software developers, scientists, lawyers and an extensive network of collaborators from a wide variety of fields and disciplines. Founded in 2010 by Prof. Eyal Weizman, FA is committed to the development and dissemination of new evidentiary techniques and undertakes advanced architectural and media investigations on behalf of international prosecutors, human rights and civil society groups, and political and environmental justice organizations. FA presents its evidence in written, video, and/or interactive form to convey complex human rights violations in a compelling, accurate, and accessible manner critical to the pursuit of accountability.
Supported by 𝙌𝙪𝙖𝙧𝙩𝙞𝙚𝙧𝙚 𝙋𝙤𝙧𝙩𝙤-𝙎𝙖𝙧𝙖𝙜𝙤𝙯𝙯𝙖 𝙙𝙚𝙡 𝘾𝙤𝙢𝙪𝙣𝙚 𝙙𝙞 𝘽𝙤𝙡𝙤𝙜𝙣𝙖. The activities are implemented as part of the 𝘽𝙞𝙡𝙖𝙣𝙘𝙞𝙤 𝙥𝙖𝙧𝙩𝙚𝙘𝙞𝙥𝙖𝙩𝙞𝙫𝙤 2023 promoted by the Municipality of Bologna and Urban Innovation Foundation.