DISRUPTED DWELLING: FORENSIC AESTHETICS AND THE VISIBILITY OF VIOLENCE

• Authors: Charvát Martin
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

The aim of the present text is to offer an interpretation of Eyal Weizman’s concept of forensic aesthetics, demonstrating how this approach reveals the ways in which the aesthetic perception of violence, trauma, and decomposition of human dwelling can be transformed in the current digital optical war regime. Forensic aesthetics tries to grasp a forensic sensibility as both an aesthetic and political practice, requiring individuals to become sensitive to violence and be able to comprehend and experience the effects of disintegration, trauma, and despair that are characteristic of the experience of the survivor. The environment, dwelling, and architecture are not only inert observers, but rather have become material witnesses of crimes, violence, and destruction of various dwellings inhabited by various species. The application of digital technologies in forensic aesthetics carries a strong ethical appeal to avoid injustice. Traces and fragments of evidence, as well as multiple videos and images, are synchronized and recomposed within digital architectural environments and dwellings, as an optical and interpretative tool that shapes a new type of aesthetics.

Keywords

EN

FORENSIC AESTHETICS; VIOLENCE; DWELLING; VISUALIZATION; OPERATIONAL IMAGES

• Publisher: Society for Aesthetics in Slovakia ad Institute of Aesthetics and Art Culture
• Journal: ESPES
• Year: 2022
• Volume: 11
• Issue: 2
• Pages: 69 - 77

Contributors

author

Charvát Martin

• Film and TV School of Academy of Performing Arts in Prague, Smetanovo nábř. 2, 116 65 Praha 1, Czech Republic

Identifiers

DOI

10.5281/zenodo.7506937