A Cartography of Risk
Project by Helene Kazan for exhibition Forensis at the
Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin
March 2014
Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin
March 2014
Risk analysis describes destruction that has not yet taken place. The destruction of buildings that are otherwise still standing intact is a complex reality fabricated by algorithms, fears, hopes, conflicting philosophies and historical experience. But these potential ruins are also ‘messages from the future’, and shape the economical and urban realities in their present environment through their effect on the prices of property and insurance. For the exhibition 'Forensis' curated by Eyal Weizman and Anselm, the project ‘A Cartography of Risk’ brought together an archive of concurrent perceptions of risk in Lebanon through images, documents and a short film exhibited as multi-media installation at the Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin.
Further information on ‘A Cartography of Risk’:
https://www.forensic-architecture.org/file/cartography-of-risk/
Further information on ‘Forensis’: https://www.hkw.de/en/programm/projekte/2014/forensis/start_forensis.php
Related works:
'What the War Will Look Like' writing be Helene Kazan published in Forensis: The Architecture of Public Truth', Sternberg (2014): https://www.academia.edu/27998416/What_the_War_Will_Look_Like
Further information on ‘A Cartography of Risk’:
https://www.forensic-architecture.org/file/cartography-of-risk/
Further information on ‘Forensis’: https://www.hkw.de/en/programm/projekte/2014/forensis/start_forensis.php
Related works:
'What the War Will Look Like' writing be Helene Kazan published in Forensis: The Architecture of Public Truth', Sternberg (2014): https://www.academia.edu/27998416/What_the_War_Will_Look_Like