Nuclear: art & radioactivity. Runs: 14 - 16, 20 - 23, 27 - 30 November 2008, 12 – 6.30pm Admission free Nicholls and Clarke Building, 3-10 Shoreditch High Street, Spitalfields, London E1
Nuclear Talkaoke with The People Speak - 3 - 7pm, Friday 14 November 2008 Nuclear Forum at the RSA - 10 am - 6pm, Friday 28 November 2008 Nuclear power is re-emerging as a concern for our times, both as a generator of energy and as part of a defence strategy. Today it seems to stand for the failed utopian promises of modernism and a fresh hope for a carbon-free future. The contradictions that lie at its core have provided a rich source of questioning for artists, scientists, ecologists and activists for many years. The Nuclear exhibition explores these intricacies through two new commissioned works by Chris Oakley and Simon Hollington & Kypros Kyprianou. Last year, high court judge Jeremy Sullivan caused an apparent setback to the government's nuclear energy ambitions by ruling that public consultation into the creation of a new fleet of nuclear power stations was "misleading" and "seriously flawed". Soon after these events, Simon Hollington & Kypros Kyprianou started a residency at The British Atomic Nuclear Group as part of a public perceptions programme. Hollington & Kyprianou's work in Nuclear is the outcome from this residency, particularly their work within B.A.N.G's wide-ranging public consultation into the possibility of siting a nuclear power facility in the heart of London. Their new installation, 'The Nightwatchman' traces changing perceptions of the nuclear power industry over its 50 year history through a single immersive narrative environment, blending fact and fiction into a darkly humorous journey through hard-nosed PR and spin to a logical hysteria. more... http://www.artscatalyst.org/projects/darkplaces/nuclear.html _______________________________________________ NetBehaviour mailing list [email protected] http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour
