TY  - JOUR
PY  - 2017//
TI  - The Vanishing Vanishing-Point: violence prevention through civil imagination
JO  - Journal of European studies
A1  - Cohen, Brianne
SP  - 342
EP  - 358
VL  - 47
IS  - 4
N2  - In their video The Vanishing Vanishing-Point (2015), contemporary artists Effi & Amir depict the death of a mundane yet exceptional olive tree. Utilizing Google Street View and Google Earth, the video highlights temporal ruptures in the tree's photographic documentation in order to expose a field of socio-political violence surrounding the tree's demise. In this essay, I demonstrate how the artwork adopts a lens of 'forensic aesthetics' both to interrogate this complex field of culpability and to advocate an approach of violence prevention through civil imagination. The Vanishing Vanishing-Point emphasizes the need for a plural, 'civil gaze' (Azoulay, 2012) in order to understand the composite, multiple 'events of photography' surrounding the tree's untimely death and to prevent such future acts of aggression.<p /> <p>Language: en</p>
LA  - en
SN  - 0047-2441
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0047244117733898
ID  - ref1
ER  -