Helene Kazan is an artist, writer and curator. Her inter-disciplinary and multi-media practice investigates risk through an analysis of international law, architecture, and the human experience of violence, observed and argued through the frame of ‘poetic testimony’.
Kazan completed her CHASE/AHRC awarded PhD at the Centre for Research Architecture, Goldsmiths University of London (2019). She is recipient of the 2018-2020 Vera List Center Fellowship at The New School, New York. She curated ‘Points of Contact’ at Goethe Institute, Lebanon, and the Arab Center for Architecture with the support of the British Council Lebanon (2018). Her work’s been shown at Documenta(14), Kassel (2017),The Serpentine Gallery, London (2017), marra:tein, Beirut, (2016), Strelka Institute for Media, Architecture and Design, Moscow (2016), Ibraaz (2015), Tate Britain, London (2015), Mosaic Rooms,London (2015), The Showroom, London (2014), The House of World Cultures (HKW), Berlin (2014), and Beirut Art Center (2013).
Kazan recently published 'The Architecture of Slow, Structural and Spectacular Violence and the Poetic Testimony of War' in a special issue on Gender, War, and Technology (Australian Feminist Law Journal, 2018), 'On Shelter and International Law' (Avery Shorts, 2018), 'Accident and Design in Aerial Bombardment' (The Funambulist, 2016) and 'What the War Will Look Like' in Forensis (Sternberg, 2014). Kazan is a Visiting Lecturer at the Royal College of Art, London.
Kazan completed her CHASE/AHRC awarded PhD at the Centre for Research Architecture, Goldsmiths University of London (2019). She is recipient of the 2018-2020 Vera List Center Fellowship at The New School, New York. She curated ‘Points of Contact’ at Goethe Institute, Lebanon, and the Arab Center for Architecture with the support of the British Council Lebanon (2018). Her work’s been shown at Documenta(14), Kassel (2017),The Serpentine Gallery, London (2017), marra:tein, Beirut, (2016), Strelka Institute for Media, Architecture and Design, Moscow (2016), Ibraaz (2015), Tate Britain, London (2015), Mosaic Rooms,London (2015), The Showroom, London (2014), The House of World Cultures (HKW), Berlin (2014), and Beirut Art Center (2013).
Kazan recently published 'The Architecture of Slow, Structural and Spectacular Violence and the Poetic Testimony of War' in a special issue on Gender, War, and Technology (Australian Feminist Law Journal, 2018), 'On Shelter and International Law' (Avery Shorts, 2018), 'Accident and Design in Aerial Bombardment' (The Funambulist, 2016) and 'What the War Will Look Like' in Forensis (Sternberg, 2014). Kazan is a Visiting Lecturer at the Royal College of Art, London.