For Radar, artist Helene Kazan will conduct a poetic investigation into the modern geopolitics of cotton, grounded in the Midlands’ history of textile production. Kazan will undertake a series of research trips to the region, as well as connect to interdisciplinary practitioners at Loughborough. The project will develop as a time-based audio-visual work sharing the discovery of the poetic investigative process. 

Bio:

Helene Kazan is an artist and writer. Drawing on feminist methodologies, Kazan’s work explores how radical poetics can express and translate the experience of violence. Investigating the colonial foundations of international law and its violent impact today, her work privileges embodied knowledge in the form of poetic testimony. As the process makes attempts towards expanded frameworks of reparative justice, in its interaction and recognition by the law and beyond. 

Kazan’s work has been exhibited and published with institutions internationally including: Sharjah Biennial 16 (2025); Beirut Art Center (2023); Mosaic Rooms, London (2023); e-flux (2022); maatEXT & Art Jameel (2022); Ashkal Alwan, Beirut (2019); Vera List Center, New School, NYC (2018); Serpentine Gallery, London (2017); Tate, London (2015); House of World Cultures (HKW), Berlin (2014) and The Showroom, London (2013). Kazan received her doctorate from the Centre for Research Architecture at Goldsmiths, University of London (2019) and is a Senior Lecturer in Critical Theory in Fine Art at Oxford Brookes University.  

For more information on Helene please view her website