Disciplines
Other Humanities (20%); Arts (40%); Media and Communication Sciences (20%); Philosophy, Ethics, Religion (20%)
Keywords
Forensic Architecture,
Investigative Ästhetilk,
Constanze Ruhm,
Rechtsprechung,
Marlene NourbeSe Philip,
Zeitgenössische Kunst
Abstract
The research agency Forensic Architecture investigates war crimes and ecological as well as political
crises and brings them into the exhibition as well as the courtroom through "Investigative Aesthetics"
(MACBA 2017). Lisa Stuckey develops the figuration `Law on Trial` to investigate why aesthetic and
poetic forensic procedures are entrusted with a radical questioning of social justice.
In selective excursuses, the study compares stratagems of Forensic Architecture with those of filmmaker
Constanze Ruhm and poet M. NourbeSe Philip. After law became a "model for knowledge systems"
(Vismann/Weitin 2006) in the 18th century, today`s literal putting of law to the test is related to a new
dimension of detection that follows the institutional critique of the 1990s and leads to a functional
change of the arts.