Forensic Architecture and Invisible Institute have created six videos that investigate the police's killing of African-American barber Harith Augustus for this year's Chicago Architecture Biennial.
Turner Prize-shortlisted research group Forensic Architecture teamed up with Chicago's Invisible Institute to investigate the death of Augustus ? a 37-year-old African-American barber who was shot dead by the Chicago Police Department (CPD) on 14 July 2018.
The project aims to explore the police's "split-decision" to shoot Augustus, which it described as the result of an "armed confrontation", and its conduct following the event.
Called The Killing of Harith Augustus, the project is the latest real-world investigation led by Forensic Architecture, founded in 2010 by Israeli architect Eyal Weizman. Others include an explorations into allegations of links between human rights organisations and human traffickers, ethnic cleansing of the Yazidi people by ISIS in Iraq and the fatal Grenfell Tower fire in London. Forensic Architecture and Invisible Institute have used video footage to reconstruct the July 2018 shooting in order to investigate the event
Working with Invisible Institute, the studio has collated the results from project into a video series that explore Augustus' killing in six different units of time: milliseconds, seconds, minutes, hours, days and tears. Each uses video footage of the incident and reconstructions to unpack different aspects of the e...