Professor Eyal Weizman

In his research, Eyal forensically examines human rights violations using architectural, visual and aural techniques.

Staff details

Position

Professor of Spatial & Visual Cultures

Website

Eyal Weizman is Professor of Spatial and Visual Cultures and founding director of the Centre for Research Architecture at 51吃瓜网黑料. In 2010 he founded the research agency Forensic Architecture and directs it ever since. The work of the agency is documented in the exhibition and book FORENSIS (Sternberg, 2014), as well as in Forensic Architecture: Violence at the Threshold of Detectability (Zone/MIT, 2017) and in numerous exhibitions world wide. In 2007 he set up, with Sandi Hilal and Alessandro Petti, the architectural collective DAAR in Beit Sahour/Palestine. This work is documented in the book Architecture after Revolution (Sternberg, 2014). In 2013 he designed a permanent folly in Gwangju, South Korea which was documented in the book The Roundabout Revolution (Sternberg, 2015). His other books include The Conflict Shoreline (Steidl and Cabinet, 2015), Mengele鈥檚 Skull (Sternberg, 2012), The Least of all Possible Evils (Verso, 2011), Hollow Land (Verso, 2007), A Civilian Occupation (Verso, 2003). Weizman is on the editorial board of Third Text, Humanity, Cabinet and Political Concepts and is on the board of directors of the Centre for Investigative Journalism (CIJ) and on the Technology Advisory Board of the International Criminal Court (ICC) in The Hague. He previously sat on the advisory boards of the ICA in London and B鈥橳selem in Jerusalem, amongst others. He graduated in architecture in 1998 from the Architectural Association in London and completed his PhD at the London Consortium/Birkbeck College in 2006.

Publications and research outputs

Book

Fuller, Matthew and Weizman, Eyal. 2021. Investigative Aesthetics: Conflicts and Commons in the Politics of Truth. London: Verso. ISBN 9781788739085
Weizman, Eyal. 2017. Forensic Architecture: Violence at the Threshold of Detectability. Brooklyn, NY: Zone Books. ISBN 9781935408864
Weizman, Eyal. 2015. The Roundabout Revolutions. Berlin: Sternberg. ISBN 978-3-95679-098-0

Edited Book

Najafi, Sina and Weizman, Eyal, eds. 2021. Forensic Architecture Reports #1: The Police Shooting of Mark Duggan. Brooklyn, NY / London: Cabinet Books / Institute of Contemporary Art London. ISBN 9781932698855
Weizman, Eyal, ed. 2014. Forensis: The Architecture of Public Truth. Berlin: Sternberg. ISBN 978-3-95679-011-9
Segal, Rafi; Tartakover, David and Weizman, Eyal, eds. 2003. A Civilian Occupation: The Politics of Israeli Architecture. London; New York: Verso. ISBN 9781859845493

Edited Journal

Keenan, Thomas and Weizman, Eyal, eds. 2011. Mengele鈥檚 Skull: Special Issue of Cabinet Journal, Cabinet, (43).

Book Section

Weizman, Eyal. 2023. Archaeology, Architecture and the Politics of Verticality. In: Ian Parker, ed. For Palestine: Essays from the Tom Hurndall Memorial Lecture Group. Cambridge: Open Book Publishers, pp. 123-142. ISBN 9781805110262
Hilal, Sandi; Petti, Alessandro and Weizman, Eyal. 2014. Dheisheh (Cisjordanie). Retours. Penser le futur dans l鈥檈xtraterritorialit茅 (un projet architectural). In: Michel Agier, ed. Un monde de camps. Paris: La D茅couverte. ISBN 9782707183224
Weizman, Eyal. 2014. Holey Land. In: Stephen Shore, ed. Stephen Shore: From Galilee to the Negev. London; New York: Phaidon. ISBN 9780714867069

Article

Heller, Charles; Pezzani, Lorenzo; Mann, Itamar; Moreno-Lax, Violeta and Weizman, Eyal. 2018. 鈥業t鈥檚 an Act of Murder鈥�: How Europe Outsources Suffering as Migrants Drown. New York Times, ISSN 0362-4331
Bois, Yve-Alain; Feher, Michel; Foster, Hal and Weizman, Eyal. 2016. On Forensic Architecture: A Conversation with Eyal Weizman. October(156), pp. 116-140. ISSN 0162-2870
Weizman, Eyal. 2016. The walls have eyes: Buildings reveal the conflict they witness (Interview). New Scientist, ISSN 0262-4079

Weizman, Eyal. 2015. Violence at the Threshold of Detectability: Negative Positivism. e-flux(64),
Weizman, Eyal. 2014. The Architecture of Ariel Sharon. Al Jazeera English,
Weizman, Eyal. 2014. Arafat鈥檚 Tomb. London Review of Books, 36(1), p. 26.
Hilal, Sandi; Petti, Alessandro; Weizman, Eyal and Perugini, Nicola. 2013. The lawless line. London Review of International Law, 1(1), pp. 201-209. ISSN 2050-6325
Weizman, Eyal. 2012. The Book of Destruction. London Review of Books, 34(23), p. 28.
Weizman, Eyal; Hilal, Sandi and Petti, Alessandro. 2012. The Return to the Common: DAAR: Decolonizing Architecture Art Residency. Manifesta,
Petti, Alessandro; Perugini, Nicola; Hilal, Sandi and Weizman, Eyal. 2011. Linea verde, il limes senza legge. Limes,
Weizman, Eyal. 2011. Arendt in Ethiopia. UMBR(a): The Worst (2011), ISSN 1087-0830
Weizman, Eyal. 2010. Legislative Attack. Theory, Culture & Society, 21(6), pp. 11-32. ISSN 0263-2764
Weizman, Eyal. 2010. Material Proportionality: the Paul Hirst Memorial Lecture, 2010. Open Culture,
Weizman, Eyal and Keenan, Thomas. 2010. The Third Strategic Threat. Opendemocracy,
Godfrey, Mark; Demos, T.J.; Weizman, Eyal and Hameed, Ayesha. 2010. Rights of Passage鈥�. Tate Etc, 19,
Weizman, Eyal. 2010. Forensic architecture: Only the Criminal Can Solve the Crime. Radical Philosophy, ISSN 1047-8302
Hameed, Ayesha; Weizman, Eyal; Pereira, Godofredo Nobre Enes; Tavares, Paulo; Di Carlo, Tina and Khalili, Yazan. 2010. Universal Catastrophe - Roundtable On Terrorism. Revista Detritos, 4,
Weizman, Eyal. 2010. Political Plastic (Interview). Collapse, 6, pp. 257-303.
Weizman, Eyal and Di Carlo, Tina. 2010. Dying to Speak: Forensic Spatiality (Interview). Log(20),
Kastner, Jeffrey; McCarthy, Tom; Thompson, Nato and Weizman, Eyal. 2009. The New Geography: A Roundtable. Bookforum,

Conference or Workshop Item

Weizman, Eyal; Varvia, Christina; Kr盲mer, Elisabeth; Andritsou, Dimitra; Franke, Anselm and Kaleck, Wolfgang. 2021. 'Socializing Evidence'. In: Socializing Evidence. Haus der Kulturen der Welt (HKW), Berlin, Germany 9 October 2021.
Hameed, Ayesha and Weizman, Eyal. 2009. 'On Archives'. In: Museum of non Participation. no.w.here, London, United Kingdom 2009.

Digital

Weizman, Eyal. 2011. Forensic Architecture: The Place of Law in War.

Exhibition Catalogue

Kallehauge, Mette Marie; J酶rgensen, L忙rke Rydal; Kjeldsen, Kjeld; Weizman, Eyal and Varvia, Christina. 2022. Forensic Architecture - Witnesses.
Weizman, Eyal. 2017. Forensic Architecture: Towards an Investigative Aesthetics.

Film/Video

Varvia, Christina; Levidis, Stefanos; Andritsou, Dimitra; San, Kishan; Abuzaid, Nour; Conte, Lola; Nankivell, Sarah; Trafford, Robert and Weizman, Eyal. 2020. The Killing of Muhammad Gulzar.

Project

Weizman, Eyal. 26 September 2018 - 6 January 2019 The Long Duration of a Split Second.

Show/Exhibition

Weizman, Eyal; Varvia, Christina; Kr盲mer, Elisabeth; Andritsou, Dimitra; Franke, Anselm and Kaleck, Wolfgang. 2021. Investigative Commons. In: "Investigative Commons Exhibition", Haus der Kulturen der Welt (HKW), Berlin, Germany, 28 May - 8 August 2021.
Weizman, Eyal; Nankivell, Sarah; Varvia, Christina; Saraj, Sarah and Moafi, Samaneh. 2020. Forensic Architecture: True to scale. In: "Forensic Architecture: True to scale", Miami Dade College Museum of Art and Design (MOAD), United States, 20 February - 27 September 2020.
Weizman, Eyal. 2018. The Long Duration of a Split Second at Turner Prize 2018. In: "Turner Prize 2018", Tate Britain, United Kingdom, 26 September 2018 - 6 January 2019.

Weizman, Eyal. 2018. Maps of Defiance: Documenting the Genocide of the Yazidi People in Northern Iraq at London Design Biennale 2018. In: "London Design Biennale 2018", Somerset House, London, United Kingdom, 4-23 September 2018.
Weizman, Eyal. 2018. Counter Investigations. In: "Counter Investigations: Forensic Architecture", Institute of Contemporary Arts (ICA), London, United Kingdom, 7 March - 13 May 2018.
Weizman, Eyal. 2017. Forensic Architecture: Hacia una est茅tica investigativa. In: "Forensic Architecture: Hacia una est茅tica investigativa", Museo Universitario Arte Contempor谩neo (MUAC), Mexico City, Mexico, 9 September - 30 December 2017.
Weizman, Eyal; Varvia, Christina; Rowat, Simone and Levidis, Stefanos. 2017. 77sqm_9:26min. In: "Documenta 14", Neue Neue Galerie, Kassel, Germany, 10 June - 19 September 2017.
Weizman, Eyal. 2017. Forensic Architecture: Towards an Investigative Aesthetics. In: "Forensic Architecture: Towards an Investigative Aesthetics", Museu d鈥橝rt Contemporani de Barcelona (MACBA), Barcelona, Spain, 28 April - 15 October 2017.
Weizman, Eyal. 2017. Forensic Architecture: Towards an Investigative Aesthetics. In: "Forensic Architecture: Towards an Investigative Aesthetics", MACBA, Barcelona, Spain, 28 April - 15 October 2017.
Weizman, Eyal. 2016. A World of Fragile Parts. In: "La Biennale di Venezia 2016", Applied Arts Pavilion, Venice, Italy, 28 May - 27 November 2016.
Weizman, Eyal. 2016. Forensic Architecture at Venice Architecture Biennale 2016. In: "Giardini della Biennale, La Biennale di Venezia", Venice, Italy, 28 May - 27 November 2016.
Dufour, Diane; Lebart, Luce; Delage, Christian and Weizman, Eyal. 2016. Crime Scenes | A Hundred Years of Photographic Evidence. In: "Crime Scenes | A Hundred Years of Photographic Evidence", Nederlands Fotomuseum, Rotterdam, Netherlands, 13 May - 21 August 2016.
Weizman, Eyal. 2015. The Urban-Data Complex. In: "Shenzhen Bi-City Biennale of Urbanism/Architecture 2015", Shenzhen Public Art Center, Shenzhen, China, 4 December 2015 - 4 March 2016.
Weizman, Eyal and Varvia, Christina. 2015. Burden of Proof: The Construction of Visual Evidence. In: "Burden of Proof: The Construction of Visual Evidence", The Photographers' Gallery, London, United Kingdom, 2 October 2015 - 10 January 2016.
Weizman, Eyal. 2015. Forensis. In: "Forensis", Fundaci贸n Proa (PROA), Buenos Aires, Argentina, 25 September 2015 - 31 January 2016.
Weizman, Eyal. 2015. Images 脿 charge, La construction de la preuve par l'image. In: "Images 脿 charge, La construction de la preuve par l'image", LE BAL, Paris, France, 4 June - 30 August 2015.
Weizman, Eyal. 2015. Forensic Architecture in All of This Belongs to You, Victoria and Albert Museum. In: "All of This Belongs to You", Victoria and Albert Museum, London, United Kingdom, 1 April 鈥� 19 July 2015.
Weizman, Eyal. 2014. Forensis. In: "Forensis", Haus der Kulturen der Welt (HKW), Berlin, Germany, 15 March - 5 May 2014.
Weizman, Eyal. 2014. Forensic Architecture in Insert2014. In: "Insert2014", Mati Ghar, Indira Gandhi National Centre for the Arts, New Delhi, India, 31 January - 28 February 2014.
Weizman, Eyal. 2010. Documentary Sculpture. In: "The Architecture Biennale of Venice 2010", Venice, Italy.
Weizman, Eyal. 2010. The Destruction of Destruction. In: "antiphotojournalism", institute of the image, Spain.
Hilal, Sandi; Petti, Alessandro and Weizman, Eyal. 2008. Decolonizing Architecture. In: "Decolonizing Architecture", Nottingham Contemporary, United Kingdom, 2008-2013.
Weizman, Eyal. 2003. Territories. In: "Territories", Kunst Werke and Walter Koenig Press, 6/1/2003 - 9/7/2003.

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