Profit Versus Civilian: Forensic Architecture, Neoliberal Culpability and the Art of Exposé

The question of how to meaningfully intervene in human rights atrocities and prevent their future occurrence is a pressing global challenge, one made more complicated by the pervasive, yet slippery nature of neoliberalism, which seems almost designed to engineer a sort of hopelessness or uncertainty about where, or how, to meaningfully intervene. This article focuses on ‘Triple Chaser’, the ten and a half minute-long creative investigative video that comprised Forensic Architecture’s contribution to the 2019 Whitney Biennial. Through analysis of how Triple Chaser methodically builds a case for individual culpability and institutional accountability for neoliberal mass atrocity, the article explores the role of ‘creative interference’, museal complicity in transnational war profiteering, and the broader politics of neoliberal culpability and accountability.