Collapsing deep time responsibility
2023 (English)In: Takeuchi Kota / [ed] Koya Ryohei, Tokyo: Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo , 2023, p. 120-129Chapter in book (Refereed)
Abstract [ja]
Nuclear legacies can last for millions of years, and artists will continue to investigate them within the contemporary conditions of our time. In the twenty first century Kota Takeuchi is interested in how we physically view and perform images of nuclear events and their memory. His practice investigates relationships between media and social memory by revisiting historical monuments and creating media archaeologies of nuclear industrial legacies. He also has a powerful ability to collapse the visual and emotional distance between the viewer and the subject, perhaps because he has chosen to live in the context of his work, to be located and engaged in the complex social, economic and aesthetic processes of the post-Fukushima event. Takeuchi’s embedded artworks draw us closer to the contaminated site of the dilapidated Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power plant, and trace connections with nuclear sites across the planet.
Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
Tokyo: Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo , 2023. p. 120-129
Series
Tokyo Contemporary Art Award Monographs
Keywords [en]
nuclear, art, radiation, Fukushima, Finger Pointing Worker
National Category
Visual Arts Performing Arts
Research subject
aesthetics; Artistic research
Identifiers
URN: urn:nbn:se:umu:diva-205778OAI: oai:DiVA.org:umu-205778DiVA, id: diva2:1744415
Projects
Nuclear Culture
Note
Text in English and in Japanese.
2023-03-192023-03-192023-05-02Bibliographically approved