Media, Forensics, Evidence
by Susan Schuppli
- Auteur(s)
- Susan Schuppli
- Uitgever, jaar
- Cambridge (MA) ; London : MIT, 2020
- Omvang
- 392 p., geïllustreerd, 23.5 cm.
- ISBN
- 9780262043571
Artist-researcher Susan Schuppli introduces a new operative concept: material witness, an exploration of the evidential role of matter as both registering external events and exposing the practices and procedures that enable matter to bear witness. Organized in the format of a trial, ‘Material Witness’ moves through a series of cases that provide insight into the ways in which materials become contested agents of dispute around which stake holders gather. These cases include an extraordinary videotape documenting the massacre at Izbica, Kosovo, used as war crimes evidence against Slobodan Milošević and radioactive contamination discovered in Canada's coastal waters five years after the accident at Fukushima Daiichi. Each highlights the degree to which a rearrangement of matter exposes the contingency of witnessing, raising questions about what can be known in relationship to that which is seen or sensed, about who or what is able to bestow meaning onto things, and about whose stories will be heeded or dismissed. Schuppli offers an analysis that merges creative sensibility wit forensic imagination rich in technical detail.
- Locatie in de bibliotheek
- Kast 30 - 3: Kunst en Rechtspraak
- Extra thema's
- Architecture and Art
- Opmerkingen
- Incl. notes, references, Index
