FORENSISM
A Founding
Declaration.
March 19, 2026. The art movement in which the artist's lived experience is treated as a forensic site. The life is the evidence. The body is the archive.
The past is not damage.
It is unretrieved data,
awaiting excavation.
THE SEVEN PILLARS
I. The artist must be the subject.
II. Evidentiary standards are non-negotiable.
III. The wound is the credential.
IV. The methodology must be transferable.
V. Healing and creation are simultaneous.
VI. Time is non-linear within the work.
VII. Collaboration is structural.
FORENSISM 1.0. The founding declaration. March 19, 2026. Filed as-is. Not altered. The hash printed inside the body was an early-discipline move, preserved on the record. A document cannot contain its own hash — that finding was named later, in Future Provenance, and refined into the verify-page convention used across the body of work now. The operational verification hash of this PDF is published at forensism.com/verify, with the OpenTimestamps proof in the chain-of-custody archive. The embedded fingerprint stays as filed. Evidence of the discipline evolving, not an error to fix.