Way Past the Promise of Rights by Başak Ertür
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Much has been said about the end of the liberal international order and the human rights system bound up with it. The world order built in the aftermath of World War II is drawing to a close, or so the argument goes. With her adaptation of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, one of the most emblematic documents of this post-war international order, Banu Cennetoğlu's installation invites visitors to consider human rights through their materiality. The installation is at once grand and airy, artificially monumental and monumentally artificial. As the buoyant lustre of its letters slowly fades, it gives way to a toxic aftermath.
- As part of
- Self-determination on film
- Date
- 19:00 — 20:30
- Location
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Box 2
Perhaps an invitation lies hidden here: what if long-outdated promises were finally let go? What if this moment became an opportunity to rethink how justice might be discussed more radically? This talk approaches these questions through critical human-rights research and through the ways in which anticolonial, anticapitalist and abolitionist struggles are interconnected today.
Başak Ertür is a Reader at the Centre for Research Architecture at Goldsmiths and a Research Fellow at Forensic Architecture. She is the author of Spectacles and Specters: A Performative Theory of Political Trials (2022), which was awarded the 2024 SLSA Socio-Legal Theory and History Prize.
