Frame of Accountability
'Dust particles flew off the box, disturbed by my opening, adding to the sense that this archival material was vibrating under the weight of its unknown importance. Amidst the boxes of “top secret” British governments documents, I find a map labelled “Syria 3.6.41.”’
Helene Kazan
25 mei 2024 • 1 min
Screenshot from film chapter ‘(Un)Touching Ground’. A decolonial audio visual translation of an archival map reveals the effects of the Allied military campaign into Lebanon and Syria in 1941. Frame of Accountability, 01:00:00, Helene Kazan, 2024.
Through film, installation, writing, and public engagement, Frame of Accountability investigates ‘risk’ as a lived condition, produced through the co-evolution of capitalist systems and violent conflict. The project focuses on the effects across Lebanon and Syria, with a view to understanding the wider regional and global consequences. Using poetic and critical legal methods, the work explores ways of dismantling violence perpetrated through colonial mechanisms of governance, towards wider frameworks of accountability and justice. The work is produced in multi-part, non-linear formation.
This is part our of series on 'documents' in collaboration with the-documents.org. Read the introduction here.