FUKUSHIMA'20
An interactive installation, 2019-2021
FUKUSHIMA '20
GENERAL INFO: Mixed media installation
TECHNICAL INFO: HD video, duration 7'14", iPad mini, JBL speaker, Fly Life Geo smartphone, 110 x 65 x 55 mm plastic figure, printed on a 3D printer and painted with acrylic spray paint, stickers with photos from the exclusion zone of the Fukushima-1 NPP, aluminum stand construction 1750 x 380 x 20 mm, 2019
PLACE: Bienalsur 2021 / MAR Museum / Mar del Plata, AR
PUBLICATIONS ABOUT: 1.Bienalsur 2021
2.Bienalsur De Mar del Plata al cosmos: una muestra de arte se mete con la industria del turismo
GENERAL INFO: Mixed media installation
TECHNICAL INFO: HD video, duration 7'14", iPad mini, JBL speaker, Fly Life Geo smartphone, 110 x 65 x 55 mm plastic figure, printed on a 3D printer and painted with acrylic spray paint, stickers with photos from the exclusion zone of the Fukushima-1 NPP, aluminum stand construction 1750 x 380 x 20 mm, 2019
PLACE: Bienalsur 2021 / MAR Museum / Mar del Plata, AR
PUBLICATIONS ABOUT: 1.Bienalsur 2021
2.Bienalsur De Mar del Plata al cosmos: una muestra de arte se mete con la industria del turismo
A significant impact on the formation of the idea of work was made by a field trip to the human exclusion zone of the Fukushima I Nuclear Power Plant, where a major radiation accident occurred in 2011, and a meeting with scientists from the Tokyo University laboratory Kobayashi LAB, conducting work on monitoring animals that are in the zone (Cyberforest project - bio-acoustic environmental studies after the accident).
The work reflects on the scale of the reorganization of nature by man and explores the emergence of new ecologies as a result of human activity. Considering the growing in recent years trend of tourism to places of environmental disasters, the work seeks to explore what sensual experiences such trips provide. Is there a connection with the term "the sublime" in concepts of aesthetics, referring to the concept of great and dangerous beauty? How has the very concept of "sublime" changed, which in European intellectual traditions of the 17th and 18th centuries was closely connected with nature, and in the 20th century with technology ("technological sublime")?
Part of the installation is the JBL speaker, which broadcasts real-time sounds from the radioactive forest in the exclusion zone of the Fukushima I Nuclear Power Plant. For broadcasting, a website developed by Kobayashi LAB is used.
Another component of the installation is a film-collage made of material taken during an excursion to the human exclusion zone of the NPP. The video contains fragments of audio recordings of guide comments during a bus tour of the area.
The work reflects on the scale of the reorganization of nature by man and explores the emergence of new ecologies as a result of human activity. Considering the growing in recent years trend of tourism to places of environmental disasters, the work seeks to explore what sensual experiences such trips provide. Is there a connection with the term "the sublime" in concepts of aesthetics, referring to the concept of great and dangerous beauty? How has the very concept of "sublime" changed, which in European intellectual traditions of the 17th and 18th centuries was closely connected with nature, and in the 20th century with technology ("technological sublime")?
Part of the installation is the JBL speaker, which broadcasts real-time sounds from the radioactive forest in the exclusion zone of the Fukushima I Nuclear Power Plant. For broadcasting, a website developed by Kobayashi LAB is used.
Another component of the installation is a film-collage made of material taken during an excursion to the human exclusion zone of the NPP. The video contains fragments of audio recordings of guide comments during a bus tour of the area.
