Tracing toxicity as it moves across soil, water, air, and bodies, this research-based installation for Amman Design Week brings together distinct geographies as part of an entangled planetary system in which toxic materials are weaponized, tested, deployed, stored, and re-encountered.

Through a three-channel video conceived as a fictional hearing, the installation invites testimonies from communities living within toxic flows and confronting often invisible forms of environmental violence. Tracing the flows of military toxicity across three interconnected sites: weapon testing in Vieques, Puerto Rico; military deployment in Iraqi cities; and storage and containment in parts of the U.S. The exhibition asks why toxicity is administratively and politically containable while remaining ecologically mobile, and what intergenerational resistance reveals that official state records withhold. Moving between testimonies, maps, archives, and photographs, the installation is conceived as a contaminated field, moving between the three entangled traces and positioning the viewer from the molecular to the territorial scales.

Project Lead and Research- Farah Alkhoury
Design and Development- Tigran Kostandyan and Farah Alkhoury
Sound Artist- bani haykal
Translation- Fawwaz Abughazaleh
Research Assistants- Dashely Julia and Bashu Manya
Exhibition Assistant- Adri Parada Campos
Voiceover Testimonies- Myrna Pagan and Murtatha Al-Janoubi
Voiceover Convener- Patricia Bermúdez
Voiceover Planetary Witness- Dashely Juliaz
Installation Photography- Abdullah Sharw
Production Coordinator- Zainab Ishaqat and Ahmed Malkosh.
Amman Design Week exhibition was curated by Faysal Tabbarah

This project is supported by Bard Architecture, with the advice and support of Ivan Munera, and the support and camaraderie of Kathy Gannett in Vieques. Special thanks to ADW directors Bisher Tabbaa and Sarah Hejazin for generous support,