The Future of Demonstration

The Future of Demonstration: S1 VERMÖGEN Episode 1 marked the inauguration of Ground Truth: The al-Araqib Museum of Struggle. This transitory museum was a collaboration with the unrecognized Bedouin village of al-Araqib and dedicated to the ongoing struggle for their ancestral land in the Naqab Desert, Israel. A collaborative mapping project involved aerial photography from kites (with Public Lab) and historical research (with the NGO Zochrot). With the local families, we produced a body of evidence that assembled historical reading of the silver salt grains of the 1945 RAF aerial images of the area, through the pixel grids of contemporary satellites to the floating point-cloud particles of our low flying kite surveys.

The exhibition was accompanied by a workshop, Civic Science and the View from Above, which focused on civic-led aerial imaging. As well as a seminar, Granular Realism: New activist possibilities within the changing spatial condition of photography. You can learn more about those events here.

Ariel Caine, project coordinator, Ground Truth / Forensic Architecture, Aziz al-Turi and Inas Altaweel. Filmstill.

Aziz al-Turi, Bedouin activist of the village of al-Araqib. Filmstill.

The Future of Demonstration S1 VERMÖGEN Episode 1, recorded live stream, filmstill