War on war! Artful weapons in times of war and conflict
Journal: Edward Elgar Publishing eBooks
Year: 2023

This chapter considers the power that cultural practices have to respond to the emergencies of war. Can aesthetic methodologies operate as active weapons against or within war, or do they merely fulminate from the ‘side-lines’? To explore this question, the chapter engages closely with two practices forged nearly a century apart - namely that of Bertolt Brecht and Forensic Architecture. Both practices, it argues, deploy ‘truth’ as an aesthetic weapon within war. In this way, they seek to interfe