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Violence, Fast and Slow

21 Jul 2019 - 02 Nov 2019

Khalil Sakakini Cultural Center, Ramallah

A large part of anthropogenic changes to our environment is conflict. Violence against the environment may be slow, indirect, and diffused but it is enmeshed in colonial and military forms of domination.

In this exhibition, Forensic Architecture’s Centre for Contemporary Nature presents two large scale investigations in Palestine where the ongoing Nakba is exemplified by both the displacement of people and the transformation of the environment.

The two investigation are concerned with contiguous places: one in the Naqab and the other in Gaza. In both these locations, environmental destruction has become a means for border production — in Gaza the environmental destruction is mobilised as part of the production and fortification of the border and in the Naqab as a mode of weaponsing the fleeting threshold of the desert. In both incremental environmental destruction erupts with lethal physical force.

These investigations thus describe forms of destruction that are both slow and fast, expanding the way of thinking about violence in the context of colonial domination.

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Exhibition

Violence, Fast and Slow

21 Jul 2019 - 02 Nov 2019

Khalil Sakakini Cultural Center, Ramallah

A large part of anthropogenic changes to our environment is conflict. Violence against the environment may be slow, indirect, and diffused but it is enmeshed in colonial and military forms of domination.

In this exhibition, Forensic Architecture’s Centre for Contemporary Nature presents two large scale investigations in Palestine where the ongoing Nakba is exemplified by both the displacement of people and the transformation of the environment.

The two investigation are concerned with contiguous places: one in the Naqab and the other in Gaza. In both these locations, environmental destruction has become a means for border production — in Gaza the environmental destruction is mobilised as part of the production and fortification of the border and in the Naqab as a mode of weaponsing the fleeting threshold of the desert. In both incremental environmental destruction erupts with lethal physical force.

These investigations thus describe forms of destruction that are both slow and fast, expanding the way of thinking about violence in the context of colonial domination.