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In this episode we take a look at the legacy of Soviet Ukrainian Vasily Grossman and follow a route to the contemporary practice of the Forensic Architecture group (UK). Along the way we discover that the word aesthetics means “to sensitise”.
Text: Chris Baldwin - based on the Clickbait Citizen publications Life and Fate (28th March 2025) and Forensic Architecture (1st April 2025).
Original Music: Paul Alan Barker
Other Music:
Shostakovich Symphony No. 10 (Mitropoulos, 1954)
Other Sound:
Interview snippet of Eyal Weizman from:
Rebel Architecture - The architecture of violence (Al Jazeera)
Sound of woman talking from:
Palestinian Music:
Traditional Music of Palestine
Also Useful:
Fuller, M. and Weizman, E. - Investigative Aesthetics (2021) Verso
Weizman, E. - Forensic Architecture: Violence at the Threshold of Detectability (2017) Zone Books
Image: “East/West” (Sofia, Bulgaria): Andrei Molodkin/Santiago Sierra
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