ABSTRACT
Rumors are ‹unconfirmed information› (Weingart 2006). Like images, they share a troubled relationship with law (see Vismann 2008) and justice. Since Virgil’s ancient epic Aeneid, ‹Fama› has been regarded as the allegory of both fame and rumor. Depicted as a trumpeting angel-monster with countless tongues and mouths, the figure is in urgent need of a gender critique. Unsurprisingly, Fama is an unwanted actor before court, for embodying hearsay and mediality.
In her public lecture, Lisa Stuckey philosophically addresses jurisdiction and «rumorological» (Ronell 1986) phenomena in contemporary art and culture. The legal-artistic engagements of Forensic Architecture will inform an exploration into how the political metaphor of the ‹leak› functions: where do forensic and poetic investigations into voids and gaps connect, where diverge? In this context, Stuckey also reflects the artistic-research methodology of her project Fama Facing Trial: Words As Currency.
