Smudge Studio: 'Practices for Turning into the Anthropocene: Look Only at the Movement'
Saturday 28 February
16:00 - 17:30
Paradiso, Main Hall
Still (truck transporting remote-handled transuranic nuclear waste on Highway-285 south, New Mexico) from Look Only at the Movement, Two-channel HD video, 171 minutes, smudge studio, 2013
In the fall of 2012, two artists set out with a car-mounted video camera to seek out a particularly abject material-event. For twelve days, they travelled the routes used by the trucks transporting transuranic nuclear waste through Utah, New Mexico and Colorado. They stage a meeting and a mutual reframing of two geologic imaginations: the timescale of a human life and the timescale of radioactive material’s 24,000-year half-life. They make media from within this practice.
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Session 9: The Nuclear Dimension
Saturday 28 February
16:00 - 17:30
Paradiso, Main Hall
Ele Carpenter & Elizabeth Ellsworth & Jamie Kruse
In this panel we look at artistic approaches and responses to the ‘nuclear dimension’, and the imaginings of a future on a geological scale. We have to imagine that the impact of our activities stretches far into a nonhuman future, and, if we take an ethical position, it implies potentially communicating with a future species that lives on Earth… The mounds that store nuclear waste are uncanny monuments to humanity that will outlast the human species as we know it.