Frame of Accountability: In Her View

Artist and writer Helene Kazan’s research-based practice investigates “risk” as an integrated limit condition of conflict and capitalism, analyzed at the intersection of international law and architecture. Kazan engages feminist, de-colonial, anti-racist, and critical legal theory and method through forms of poetic testimony, in an attempt at dismantling the disproportionate and violent human and non-human effects of risk. Kazan has shown work at The New School, NYC; Mosaic Rooms, London; Topological Atlas, London; and Shasha Movies (2021); Ashkal Alwan/Digital Earth, Beirut (2019); UnionDocs, NYC; Serpentine Gallery, London (2017); documenta(14), Kassel; Strelka Institute for Media, Architecture and Design, Moscow (2016); Tate Britain, London; Showroom, London (2014); HKW, Berlin; and Beirut Art Center (2013). Receiving her doctorate from the Centre for Research Architecture, Goldsmiths University of London (2019), Kazan was a Vera List Center Fellow, The New School, NYC (2018–2020) and a Research Fellow at Forensic Architecture (2012-15). She is Senior Lecturer in Critical Theory at Oxford Brookes University. www.helenekazan.co.uk