The Crime of Rescue – The Iuventa Case at Santarcangelo Festival 2019

As part of the 49th edition of Santarcangelo Festival, Forensic Oceanography and Forensic Architecture presented the video, The Seizure of the Iuventa.

By combining photographs, videos, recordings of verbal communications and logbooks, the artists create virtual dynamic models and 3D reconstructions of the incriminated episodes to bring out a different version of the facts. The aseptic examination of every detail by a calm digital voice makes us reflect on how the truth can be commodified and manipulated even in the era of hyper-technological and virtual control. The video establishes a tacit analogy between the pitfalls of information flows, which risk swallowing in their engorgements what really matters, and the hostile waters of a strip of sea in which no action is politically neutral and the most basic human rights are hostage to abstract power dynamics.

Juliet, 9 July 2019