The artist as an investigator: the role of the political art in the world
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.
The most astonishing book on architecture that I have read in
years.
*[for Hollow Land]*
A masterpiece of political analysis.
*[for Hollow Land]*
Weizman boldly attempts to create an entirely new method to
conceptualize the relationship between surfaces, movement, and the
tools of war
*[for Hollow Land]*
Eyal Weizman's work has become an indispensable source of both
insight and guidance in these difficult times
*Paul Gilroy*
Weizman continues to offer daring social and political commentary,
questioning taken-for-granted structures and processes that
perpetuate oppression and violence
*[For The Least of All Possible Evils]*
A fascinating treatise on how our political world functions today
and how we might seek to interrupt it.
*Art Monthly*
Expansive ... [Fuller and Weizman] explore sense and sense-making
in its fullest political terms: understanding the systemic forces
of capitalism as well as an individual's sense of morality.
*Tribune*
Sharp ... [Investigative Aesthetics] is invaluable as a
hyper-aesthetic object itself.
*Los Angeles Review of Books*
Aesthetics is a battleground, a contested space; Investigative
Aesthetics is part battle-plan or tactical guide and, more
fundamentally, part user's manual for surviving this beautiful and
terrifying world.
*ArtReview*
An undeviating announcement of the subversive potential of
contemporary aesthetic practices.
*The White Review, Books of the Year 2021*
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