This talk by Forensic Architecture’s Shourideh C. Molavi, examines the historical production and ongoing maintenance of the eastern ‘border’ of the occupied Gaza Strip with Israel in the wake of the 2018 Great March of Return. Against the backdrop of over seven decades of Israeli settler-colonialism, a ‘buffer zone’ has been formed along Gaza’s border with Israel through the denial of Palestinian access to agricultural lands, periodic military confrontation, the uprooting and grazing of farmlands, and the latest practice of aerial herbicidal spraying. During the Great March, the slow violence of this gradual border production culminated in the fast killing of human bodies. Using a range of visual and fieldwork methodologies, this talk will unpack the link between these forms of violence and locate the destruction of the environment and the destruction of the body in time and space. In doing so, we examine the ways in which the testimony of the land can be documented against human testimony to confront the historical erasure of state crimes and expose forms of ongoing settler-colonial violence.
Visit event website for more infoThis talk by Forensic Architecture’s Shourideh C. Molavi, examines the historical production and ongoing maintenance of the eastern ‘border’ of the occupied Gaza Strip with Israel in the wake of the 2018 Great March of Return. Against the backdrop of over seven decades of Israeli settler-colonialism, a ‘buffer zone’ has been formed along Gaza’s border with Israel through the denial of Palestinian access to agricultural lands, periodic military confrontation, the uprooting and grazing of farmlands, and the latest practice of aerial herbicidal spraying. During the Great March, the slow violence of this gradual border production culminated in the fast killing of human bodies. Using a range of visual and fieldwork methodologies, this talk will unpack the link between these forms of violence and locate the destruction of the environment and the destruction of the body in time and space. In doing so, we examine the ways in which the testimony of the land can be documented against human testimony to confront the historical erasure of state crimes and expose forms of ongoing settler-colonial violence.
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