FA returns to @hkw_berlin today to launch our new Berlin-based sister agency, FORENSIS, and the Investigative Commons, a new community of practice founded on the work of FA and our partners including @ECCHRBerlin, Praxis Films, @bellingcat, @amnesty, @mnemonicorg, among others
Investigative Commons serves as both the title of a landmark exhibition at @hkw_berlin and the name of a pioneering new model for collaborative counter-investigations operating across multiple forums: courts, citizens’ tribunals, cultural institutions and media platforms
With the rise of neo-fascist 'post-truth' epistemology, societies have clung to traditional pillars of power-knowledge—state institutions, legal systems, the police. But how should civil society react when these same institutions are guilty of crimes, state-terror & cover-ups?
The exhibition presents 12 investigations by FA & partners—from our collaboration with Black-led groups opposing police violence in the US to our work with anti-colonial activists in Palestine. Together, these investigations propose new models for collaborative truth-production.
Topics covered within the featured investigations include racist policing and border regimes, cyber-surveillance, environmental violence, the ongoing violence of colonialism and the complicity of institutions in perpetuating these critical human rights violations
Combining the situated knowledge of survivors of violence & dispossession w/ the toolkits of investigative reporters, whistleblowers, activists, lawyers, scientists, artists, architects & cultural institutions, the show seeks to define the contours of modern human rights casework
On 3 July, @HKW_Berlin will host a public programme, which will include the public launch of a new investigation that maps the global landscape of cyber-surveillance against human rights defenders—demonstrating the work of the Commons in practice hkw.de/en/programm/pr…
The exhibition will be on at @hkw_berlin with free entry until 8 August - hkw.de/en/programm/pr…
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