Nuclear Aesthetics
Nuclear Aesthetics
ISBN: 97890828184
/ ed. by Iris Pissaride, Kyveli Mavrokordopoulou, Ruby de Vos ; with contr. by Sven Lütticken, Jeroen van der Hulst, Anna Volkmar […et al]. - Amsterdam, Vrije Universiteit, Faculteit der Letteren, 2018. - 96 p. : ills. ; 24 cm. - (Kunstlicht, Journal for Visual Art, Visual Culture and Architecture, Volume 39, 2018, no. 3/4) Including notes and abstracts
Nuclear Aesthetics sets out to explore questions emerging from art in/of the Nuclear Age. What role do art and visual culture assume in a post-Fukushima political climate where the danger of other nuclear accidents, and of nuclear weaponry, remain at sight? Historically, how have artists grappled with the political violence and sensory invisibility of radioactivity? How have aesthetic practices about the nuclear responded to more recent ‘nuclear events’ like the Chernobyl disaster? Spanning different genres, periods and geographical locations, the artistic and academic contributions of this Kunstlicht issue offer an array of perspectives on global nuclear ecologies, from the visual culture of the first atomic tests to the farsighted future of nuclear waste storage. (see also 'Unsettling Dust' by Tineke van Veen & Barbara Prezelj at Stroom exhibition 'Positions-Time Based)
