Eyal Weizman (2012)

Eyal Weizman MBE FBA (born 1970) is a British Israeli architect. He is the director of the research agency Forensic Architecture at Goldsmiths, University of London where he is Professor of Spatial and Visual Cultures and a founding director there of the Centre for Research Architecture[1] at the department of Visual Cultures. In 2019 he was elected Fellow of the British Academy.

Biography

Eyal Weizman was born in Haifa, Israel. He studied architecture at the Architectural Association in London, and completed his PhD at the London Consortium.[2]

Architecture career

In 2007 he was a founding member of the architectural collective Decolonizing Architecture (DAAR)[3] in Beit Sahour in the West Bank, Palestinian territories. Weizman has been a professor of architecture at the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna and has also taught at The Bartlett (UCL) in London at the Städelschule in Frankfurt. He lectured, curated and organised conferences in many institutions worldwide. Weizman's most known theoretical work describes the acts of the Israeli army as founded upon the post-structuralist French philosophers and a reading of them. He also conducted research on behalf of B’tselem on the "planning aspects of the Israeli occupation of the West Bank".[4] He has also published many articles on Israeli geography and architecture.[5][6][7] In 2013 he designed a permanent folly in Gwangju, South Korea which was documented in the book The Roundabout Revolution (Sternberg, 2015). In 2010 he established the agency Forensic Architecture, which provide advanced architectural and media evidence to civil society groups, with the help of several European Research Council grants, as well as other human rights grants. Forensic Architecture undertook research for Amnesty International, Human Rights Watch, Doctors without Borders (MSF), the Red Cross (ICRC), and the United Nations.

In 2017, he was a guest speaker at the 17th edition of the Sonic Acts Festival: The Noise of Being (Amsterdam). Since 2019 he is a guest professor at ETH Zurich. Between 2014 and 2017 he was a Global Scholar at Princeton University.

In February 2020, Weizman was informed by email that his right to travel to the United States under a visa waiver program had been revoked. He was later informed by an official of the US Embassy in London that an algorithm had identified a security threat that was related to him.[8]

Political activism

Weizman is on the editorial board of Third Text, Humanity, Cabinet and Political Concepts and is a board member of the Centre for Investigative Journalism (CIJ) and of the Technology Advisory Board of the International Criminal Court in the Hague, and sat on the board of the Israeli human rights organization B’Tselem in Jerusalem.

He is currently on the advisory boards of the Human Rights Project at Bard College in New York,[9] as a jury member for architecture in the Akademie Schloss Solitude and of other academic and cultural institutions. In 2014 Weizman was featured in "The Architecture of Violence", a film produced for the series Rebel Architecture broadcast by Al Jazeera English.[10]

Awards and recognition

Weizman was appointed Member of the Order of the British Empire (MBE) in the 2020 New Year Honours for services to architecture.[11]*2006 James Stirling Memorial Lecture Prize from the LSE/London and CCA/Montreal [12]

Books

Translations

Hollow Land

The Conflict's Shoreline

The Least of all Possible Evils

Mengele's Skull

Exhibitions

Forensic Architecture exhibited internationally[28] including at the documenta 14 in Kassel.[29] In 2017 Forensic Architecture had two major museum exhibitions at the Barcelona Museum of Contemporary Art (MACBA)[30] and at the Museo Universitario Arte Contemporáneo (MUAC).[31] In 2018 Forensic Architecture held a solo show at the Institute of Contemporary Arts (ICA) in London.[32] Forensic Architecture's work is included in the permanent collection of the Victoria and Albert Museum.

References

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  4. ^ Weizman, Jeffrey Kastner, Sina Najafi, and Eyal. "The Wall and the Eye: An Interview with Eyal Weizman | Jeffrey Kastner, Sina Najafi, and Eyal Weizman". cabinetmagazine.org.((cite web)): CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
  5. ^ Segal, Rafi; Weizman, Eyal; Tartakover, David (20 February 2003). A civilian occupation: the politics of Israeli architecture. Babel ; VERSO. OCLC 52334881.
  6. ^ Karpf, Anne (20 February 2008). A time to speak out: independent Jewish voices on Israel, Zionism and Jewish identity. Verso. ISBN 9781844672295. OCLC 181140135.
  7. ^ Ophir, Adi; Givoni, Michal; Ḥanafī, Sārī (20 February 2009). The power of inclusive exclusion: anatomy of Israeli rule in the occupied Palestinian territories. Zone Books ; Distributed by the MIT Press. OCLC 317288328.
  8. ^ Moynihan, Colin (20 February 2020). "Forensic Architecture Founder Says United States Prevented His Visit". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 21 October 2023.
  9. ^ Riou, Danielle (22 February 2005). "Eyal Weizman".
  10. ^ Bramley, Ellie Violet (1 September 2014). "What can 'forensic architecture' reveal about the conflict in Gaza?". theguardian.com. Retrieved 1 September 2014.
  11. ^ "No. 62866". The London Gazette (Supplement). 28 December 2019. p. N23.
  12. ^ "James Stirling Memorial Lecture - Announcements - e-flux". www.e-flux.com.
  13. ^ "Prince Claus Fund - Network". www.princeclausfund.org. Retrieved 2015-11-29.
  14. ^ ""Wir arbeiten im Namen der Opfer" - derStandard.at". DER STANDARD.
  15. ^ "Saydnaya Wins Digital Dozen 2016 Award for Breakthroughs in Storytelling - Forensic Architecture". 12 April 2017.
  16. ^ Q42, Fabrique &. "Saydnaya: Inside a Syrian Torture Prison". Design Museum.((cite web)): CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)
  17. ^ "The Vera List Center for Arts and Politics - 2016-2018 Prize Winner Maria Thereza Alves and iSeeds of Changei". www.veralistcenter.org.
  18. ^ "PRIX ARS". prix2017.aec.at.
  19. ^ "Forensic Architecture accepts Peabody-Facebook Award at ceremony in New York City - Forensic Architecture". 30 May 2017.
  20. ^ Wilton, Pete (9 March 2018). "European culture award for Forensic Architecture".
  21. ^ Carrión, Jorge (10 December 2017). "Diez libros de no ficción que han marcado 2017". The New York Times.
  22. ^ "Il minore dei mali possibili - Eyal Weizman - nottetempo". www.edizioninottetempo.it.
  23. ^ Eyal Weizman: Najmanje od svih mogućih zala : Humanitarno nasilje od Arendtove do Gaze. ((cite book)): |website= ignored (help)
  24. ^ "Il male minore - Eyal Weizman - nottetempo". www.edizioninottetempo.it.
  25. ^ "La Calavera de Menguele". 5 September 2015.
  26. ^ "Mengele'nin Kafatası Adli estetiğin ortaya çıkışı - Thomas Keenan - Eyal Weizman - Açılım Kitap - 1:1 Atlas Dizisi - 1:1 Atlas Dizisi". www.acilimkitap.com.
  27. ^ https://monoskop.org/images/9/94/Keenan_Thomas_Weizman_Eyal_Mengeleova_lubanja_Zaceci_forenzicke_estetike.pdf[bare URL PDF]
  28. ^ "Exhibitions - Forensic Architecture".
  29. ^ "The Most Important Piece at documenta 14 in Kassel Is Not Art. It's Evidence". artnet News. 8 June 2017.
  30. ^ "Forensic Architecture: Towards an Investigative Aesthetics - Forensic Architecture".
  31. ^ "Forensic Architecture: Hacia Una Estética Investigativa - Forensic Architecture".
  32. ^ "Home". www.ica.art.