2023
Author: Ralph Karam
Advisor: Michael Young
Author: Ralph Karam
Advisor: Michael Young
The Authority of Portals
Arguing for the presence of a portal linking Port Authority Bus Station, New York, NY and Charles Helou Bus Station, Beirut, Lebanon, the project unlocked new possibilities for substance to cross seemingly disparate geographical locations, and with it, allow for life to carry on. Facing the coast of Beirut, the Charles Helou bus station underwent cycles of true-to-its-program functioning and war. The Port Authority bus station, on the other hand, is under threat of replacement by a colossal re-development program.
Side by side, the sites reveal themselves to one another: did Beirut build New York? Will New York soon become empty and effaced, destroyed at its port? Which present of one is the future of the other?
Printed montages of photogrammetry model-images render sensible the distrubances cause by a capitalist logic of erasure at both trans-atlantic and local levels.
Side by side, the sites reveal themselves to one another: did Beirut build New York? Will New York soon become empty and effaced, destroyed at its port? Which present of one is the future of the other?
Printed montages of photogrammetry model-images render sensible the distrubances cause by a capitalist logic of erasure at both trans-atlantic and local levels.