Helene Kazan

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    • A Cartography of Risk
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  • Helene Kazan
  • About
  • Works
    • Frame of Accountability
    • Under Multiple Suns
    • Speculative Legal Futures and the Poetic Testimony of Violence
    • Points of Contact
    • Imperiled House
    • From Above and Below
    • Engineering Shelter
    • A Cartography of Risk
    • Masking Tape Intervention
    • Modelling Kivalina
    • Site Specific Installation
  • Publications
  • Contact

A Cartography of Risk

Project by Helene Kazan for exhibition Forensis at the 
Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin
March 2014
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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 ‘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
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