Visual Truth Regimes are meeting points of images, systems of knowledge and political dis/orders. The events series is dedicated to visual, aesthetic and artistic explorations of evidence as coming to bear on the state of law, violence and media in the current moment.

Speculative Truth Regimes

As part of the Series Visual Truth Regimes, organized by Laliv Melamed (Goethe University Frankfurt), Felix Trautmann (Institut für Sozialforschung; HBK Braunschweig) and Franziska Wildt (Institut für Sozialforschung). With Adam Kahlil (New Red Order) and Toby Lee (NYU), May 19th, 18:30, Basis, Gutleutstraße 8-12.

Have you ever tried to return something stolen? Maybe it wasn’t you who stole it, maybe it was someone else. Maybe. Regardless of who did the stealing, it can be tricky — legally, financially, emotionally, politically — to Give It Back. The New Red Order, a public secret society in the service of Indigenous agency and futurity, is here to help!

Since 1492, the NRO has been active in the Land Back movement, which seeks to reestablish Indigenous control over ancestral lands. Join NRO member Adam Khalil as he speaks to documentary scholar-accomplice Toby Lee about this ongoing work. In a meandering step-by-step guide to Giving It Back, they consider the work of speculation in documentary media, real estate, & political practice.

***Next event in the series: Forensic Truth Regimes, With Başak Ertür (Goldsmith) and Alisa Lebow (Sussex), following a screening of Revision, (dir, Philip Scheffner). June 2nd, 18:30, Pupille, Mertonstraße 26-28.