“Within the field of war-crime investigation, a methodological shift has recently led to a certain blurring. The primacy accorded to the witness and to the subjective and linguistic dimension of testimony, trauma, and memory—a primacy that has had such an enormous cultural, aesthetic, and political influence that it has reframed the end of the twentieth century as “the era of the witness”—is gradually being supplemented (not to say bypassed) by an emergent forensic sensibility, an object-oriented juridical culture immersed in matter and materialities, in code and form, and in the presentation of scientific investigations by experts.” (Weizman, 2012).
Eyal Weizman, director of the Centre for Research Architecture and Principal Investigator at Forensic Architecture presented a CrossOver at Balmond Studio on some of his investigations including “Nakbah Day Killings” and “ Rafah: Black Friday”.
