We will be sharing a discussion event with Dimitra Andritsou (of Forensic Architecture/Forensis) on Saturday, September 14., 2024, at Hošek Contemporary. The talk will be an event as part of our current exhibition at the gallery, Woven All of Dream and Error. The talk is titled German Weapons, German Silence. The gallery’s outline description is below.
German Weapons, German Silence
A talk with Dimitra Andritsou (Forensic Architecture/Forensis), Kata Kovács, and Tom O’Doherty
Saturday, September 14., 2024 · 5pm · Hosek Contemporary, Fischerinsel, Berlin
As part of the exhibition Woven All of Dream and Error, Hošek Contemporary is pleased to present a discussion event at the gallery on Saturday, September 14. The talk will take place in English.
Woven All of Dream and Error, a new body of work by Kata Kovács and Tom O’Doherty, presents films, sounds, and images of the sites of abandoned railway routes in Berlin and Brandenburg, accompanied by a soundtrack that is partly machine-learning-generated. In doing so, it juxtaposes the locations of disused infrastructure with contemporary technologies, connecting past and present. These sites are, in large part, traces of past German logistics of war and destruction.
Dimitra Andritsou is an architect and researcher, and has been working with Forensic Architecture since 2019. She is currently Senior Researcher at Forensis, undertaking advanced spatial and media investigations. As part of this work, she has published research on German arms exports to Israel, which have increased massively over the course of recent years, and particularly in recent months, as Israel’s attacks on Gaza have escalated to the point where the ICJ has ruled that these actions constitute a plausible risk of genocide.
Simultaneously, in recent months, there has been a profound silence on the part of German cultural institutions regarding Israel’s acts in Gaza, and German complicity with these acts. This discussion takes place in the context of this larger silence, and aims to draw a thread between past and present infrastructures of war.
Links:
- Dimitra Andritsou
- Forensis investigation: German Arms Exports to Israel
- Kata Kovács and Tom O’Doherty
- Woven All of Dream and Error
- Hošek Contemporary
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