Title & Author:

Don't follow the wind / Nikolaus Hirsch & Jason Waite (eds.).

Publication:

Berlin : Sternberg Press, [2021]
©2021

Description:

295 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), maps, portraits ; 15 cm.

Series:

Critical spatial practice ; 12

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references.
Introduction -- Once Upon a Time Breathing Apparatus for Breathable Air / Ahmet Öğüt -- Difficult-to-Return Zone -- A conversation among the curatorial collective Don't Follow the Wind / Ryuta Ushiro [Chim Pom], Kenji Kubota, Jason Waite, Eva & Franco Mattes -- Home / Meiro Koizumi -- Fukushima Texture Pack / Eva & Franco Mattes -- Don't Follow the Wind / Noi Sawaragi -- Demio Fukushima 501 / Grand Guignol Mirai -- Radio-Activity / Sven Lütticken -- 'tome-ishi' boundary / Aiko Miyanaga -- Becoming Monument / Nikolaus Hirsch & Jorge Otero-Pailos -- Non-Visitor Centers -- Trinity Cube / Trevor Paglen -- The Entropic Silence of Fukushima / Jason Waite -- Drawing a Blueprint / Chim Pom -- Final Photos / Taryn Simon -- Negative Commons : A conversation with Silvia Federici -- Electricity That Exceeds Time / Nobuaki Takekawa -- A Letter to the Don't Follow the Wind Collective / Jodi Dean -- Time Travelers / Kota Takeuchi -- Fukushima Project : A Ray of Hope / Ai Weiwei -- Scrapbook / Eva & Franco Mattes.

Summary:

The twelfth volume of the Critical Spatial Practice series focuses on "Don't Follow the Wind," the acclaimed collaborative project situated in the radioactive Fukushima exclusion zone. The book explores the long-term environmental crisis in the coastal Japanese region through this ongoing, inaccessible exhibition, which maintains traces of human presence amid the fallout of the March 2011 nuclear reactor meltdown that displaced entire towns. What can art do in a continuing catastrophe when destruction and contamination have made living impossible? The exhibition is located inside the exclusion zone, an evacuated radioactive area established after the nuclear disaster that forcibly separated residents from their homes, land, and community. In cooperation with former residents, participating artists installed newly commissioned works at sites in the exclusion zone. Although the exhibition opened in March 2015, the zone is still inaccessible to the public--the exhibition, like the radiation, is virtually invisible. The exhibition can only be viewed when restrictions are lifted and people are permitted to return. This might take several years or decades--a period that could extend beyond our lifetime. While nuclear contamination has displaced and ruptured communities, new temporary and translocal formations have emerged among the residents who have lent their sites, other former residents collaborating on the project, and the artists, curators, and cultural workers. This book includes new texts by feminist theorist Silvia Federici, art historians Noi Sawaragi and Sven Lütticken, and political philosopher Jodi Dean. The project was codeveloped and curated by the collective Don't Follow the Wind , whose members include Chim↑Pom, Kenji Kubota, Eva & Franco Mattes, and Jason Waite. The participating artists include Ai Weiwei, Chim↑Pom, Nikolaus Hirsch & Jorge Otero-Pailos, Meiro Koizumi, Eva & Franco Mattes, Grand Guignol Mirai, Aiko Miyanaga, Ahmet Öğüt, Trevor Paglen, Taryn Simon, Nobuaki Takekawa, and Kota Takeuchi.

ISBN:

3956795687 paperback
9783956795688 paperback

Subject:

Don't Follow the Wind Jikkō Iinkai.
Site-specific installations (Art) Japan Fukushima-ken.
Installations in situ (Art) Japon Fukushima (Ken)
Site-specific installations (Art)
Site-specific installations (Art) Japan Fukushima-ken. Exhibitions.
Fukushima Nuclear Disaster, Japan, 2011 In art Exhibitions.
Art Japan 21st century Exhibitions.
Group work in art Japan Fukushima-ken. Exhibitions.
Japan Fukushima-ken
Fukushima-ken (Japan) In art Exhibitions.

Added entries:

Hirsch, Nikolaus, editor.
Waite, Jason, editor.
Hirsch, Nikolaus editor.
Critical spatial practice ; 12.

Holdings:

Location: Library main y 309319
Call No.: BIB 254591
Status: Available