Face Scripting: What Did the Building See?, 2011
Shumon Basar, Eyal Weizman, Jane & Louise Wilson
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Face Scripting: What Did the Building See? 2011, single screen projection, surround sound, gauze box: 900x600cm, 2 mirrors: 300x380cm each, 1 HD projector, CCTV monitor. Commissioned by Sharjah Art Foundation and co-produced by the Farook Foundation with Mohammed Abdulkader Hafiz & Dalia Asaad, Luis Augusto Teixeira de Freitas and the Forensic Architecture Project.
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Face Scripting: What Did the Building See? 2011, single screen projection, surround sound, gauze box: 900x600cm, 2 mirrors: 300x380cm each, 1 HD projector, CCTV monitor. Commissioned by Sharjah Art Foundation and co-produced by the Farook Foundation with Mohammed Abdulkader Hafiz & Dalia Asaad, Luis Augusto Teixeira de Freitas and the Forensic Architecture Project.
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Face Scripting: What Did the Building See? 2011, single screen projection, surround sound, gauze box: 900x600cm, 2 mirrors: 300x380cm each, 1 HD projector, CCTV monitor. Commissioned by Sharjah Art Foundation and co-produced by the Farook Foundation with Mohammed Abdulkader Hafiz & Dalia Asaad, Luis Augusto Teixeira de Freitas and the Forensic Architecture Project.
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Face Scripting: What Did the Building See? 2011, single screen projection, surround sound, gauze box: 900x600cm, 2 mirrors: 300x380cm each, 1 HD projector, CCTV monitor. Commissioned by Sharjah Art Foundation and co-produced by the Farook Foundation with Mohammed Abdulkader Hafiz & Dalia Asaad, Luis Augusto Teixeira de Freitas and the Forensic Architecture Project.
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Face Scripting: What Did the Building See? 2011, single screen projection, surround sound, gauze box: 900x600cm, 2 mirrors: 300x380cm each, 1 HD projector, CCTV monitor. Commissioned by Sharjah Art Foundation and co-produced by the Farook Foundation with Mohammed Abdulkader Hafiz & Dalia Asaad, Luis Augusto Teixeira de Freitas and the Forensic Architecture Project.
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Face Scripting: What Did the Building See? 2011, single screen projection, surround sound, gauze box: 900x600cm, 2 mirrors: 300x380cm each, 1 HD projector, CCTV monitor. Commissioned by Sharjah Art Foundation and co-produced by the Farook Foundation with Mohammed Abdulkader Hafiz & Dalia Asaad, Luis Augusto Teixeira de Freitas and the Forensic Architecture Project.
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Face Scripting: What Did the Building See? 2011, single screen projection, surround sound, gauze box: 900x600cm, 2 mirrors: 300x380cm each, 1 HD projector, CCTV monitor. Commissioned by Sharjah Art Foundation and co-produced by the Farook Foundation with Mohammed Abdulkader Hafiz & Dalia Asaad, Luis Augusto Teixeira de Freitas and the Forensic Architecture Project.
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Face Scripting: What Did the Building See? 2011, single screen projection, surround sound, gauze box: 900x600cm, 2 mirrors: 300x380cm each, 1 HD projector, CCTV monitor. Commissioned by Sharjah Art Foundation and co-produced by the Farook Foundation with Mohammed Abdulkader Hafiz & Dalia Asaad, Luis Augusto Teixeira de Freitas and the Forensic Architecture Project.
Face Scripting: What Did the Building See? 2011, single screen projection, surround sound, gauze box: 900x600cm, 2 mirrors: 300x380cm each, 1 HD projector, CCTV monitor. Commissioned by Sharjah Art Foundation and co-produced by the Farook Foundation with Mohammed Abdulkader Hafiz & Dalia Asaad, Luis Augusto Teixeira de Freitas and the Forensic Architecture Project. Courtesy of Jane & Louise Wilson and 303 Gallery, New York and Galería Helga de Alvear, Madrid and Shumon Basar and Eyal Weizman with Third Line Gallery, Dubai. Installation design by Jane & Louise Wilson and Nick Joyce.
Project Description
Between 8pm and 9pm on 19th of January 2010, Hamas official Mahmoud al-
Mahbouh was killed in room 230 of Al Bustan Rotana Hotel, Dubai. A month later
the Dubai Police released a video composed of footage from hundreds of surveillance
cameras in Dubai’s airport, shopping malls and hotels that traces the assassination to
Mossad agents. Since its broadcast on YouTube, that video has been seen by countless viewers across the globe. It operated as an agent in a murder investigation. Face Scripting is a story, made a year later, that ghosts the Dubai Police’s forensic film. It rehearses the generic architectural syntax of hotel rooms, corridors, and lobbies – those thresholds of blank transition. It also investigates the algorithmic technology of face recognition where unique individuals are identified from the blankness of crowds. This is not a documentary, just one combination culled from an infinite possibility of possible scenarios.
Face Scripting: What Did the Building See? 2011, single screen projection, surround sound, gauze box: 900x600cm, 2 mirrors: 300x380cm each, 1 HD projector, CCTV monitor. Commissioned by Sharjah Art Foundation and co-produced by the Farook Foundation with Mohammed Abdulkader Hafiz & Dalia Asaad, Luis Augusto Teixeira de Freitas and the Forensic Architecture Project. Courtesy of Jane & Louise Wilson and 303 Gallery, New York and Galería Helga de Alvear, Madrid and Shumon Basar and Eyal Weizman with Third Line Gallery, Dubai. Installation design by Jane & Louise Wilson and Nick Joyce.
January 2012
This project was part of Sharjah Biennial 10
