Investigative Aesthetics

Conflicts and Commons in the Politics of Truth

Matthew Fuller, Eyal Weizman

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English

Verso Books
30 November 2021

Theory of art; Theory of architecture; Theory of warfare & military science

Series: Verso Futures

Increasingly artists have become political activists. Their work has taken on the shape of a criminal investigator. Where does this turn toward forensics come from? How do we understand it as a aesthetic practice?

The

words investigative and aesthetics seem like an uneasy match. But this

book claims that expanded aesthetic practices can powerfully reshape our

approach to the question of truth.

Shifts

in technology and new ways of thinking together offer a means of

searching for facts and understanding them anew.

This

book proposes that the current period is defined by new forms of

“aesthetic power” composed both by sensing, detection and prediction and

the torrential proliferation of

images and

data.

To evade and oppose this form of state-corporate domination we

can learn to join the dots between traces within our interwoven digital,

built and natural environments.

Investigative

aesthetics can also enable new collaborative forms of verification.

Rather than rely on official expertise it calls for an open process that

combines the perspectives of communities

exposed to state or corporate violence with those of artists, activists

and scientists.

This new practice takes place equally in the field,

the art studio as in the scientific laboratory, online and in the

streets, as it strives towards the construction of

a new “common sensing”.

By: Matthew Fuller, Eyal Weizman
Imprint: Verso Books
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 210mm, Width: 140mm, Spine: 18mm
Weight: 272g
ISBN: 9781788739085
ISBN 10: 1788739086
Series: Verso Futures
Pages: 272
Publication Date: 30 November 2021
Audience: General/trade , College/higher education , Professional and scholarly , ELT Advanced , Primary
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Matthew Fuller is Professor of Cultural Studies at the Department of Media and Communications, at Goldsmiths, University of London. He is the author of Media Ecologies, and with Andrew Goffey, Evil Media. Eyal Weizman directs the Centre for Research Architecture and the international investigative project, Forensic Architecture. He is the author of Hollow Land, The Least of All Possible Evils, and Forensic Architecture. After a hugely acclaimed exhibition at the ICA, Forensic Architecture was shortlisted for the 2018 Turner Prize. They have exhibited around the world, and in 2019, their work was included in the Whitney Biennial.