Bodies of Evidence

This presentation tracks the ways images of violence in Palestine have circulated and functioned over the past year and a half. Examining photographs (including images from previous decades), evidence of war crimes, and the visual techniques of villainization, Adam Broomberg and Ido Nahari '19 (BCB HAST alum) will address how these images both define the moral limits of violence and play an integral role in its enactment. Like modern warfare’s autonomous weaponry, its documentation also distances brutal cause from devastating effect. Vital to this discussion is the visibility of affliction—the war-torn bodies of damageable Arab victims vs. seemingly invulnerable Israeli soldiers—and how such optics sanctify certain forms of life while devaluing others wholesale.

Please note that the visuals that will be presented are distressing and graphic. We do not intend to inflict further harm, but to look at them with critical understanding together.

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Adam Broomberg is an artist, activist and educator. His work is currently exhibited at the Venice Biennale. His activist work includes having founded Artists + Allies x Hebron (AHH), an NGO which he co-directs alongside the celebrated Palestinian human rights defender Issa Amro. For two decades, he was one half of the critically acclaimed artist duo Broomberg & Chanarin.

Ido Nahari is a writer and researcher, currently pursuing his doctorate in sociology at the School for Advanced Studies in the Social Sciences. Previously the editor for the street newspaper Arts of the Working Class, his writing has been published in various newspapers and magazines, and he has taught in the United States and Europe. Ido is a BCB alum.

For more information, e-mail [email protected].

Time: 12:30 pm – 2:00 pm CET/GMT+1

Location: W15 Cafe

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