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Ground Zero
Kyoto Art Center
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Iden Sungyoung Kim, Celeste Viv Ly, Maya Erin Masuda, Yukasa Narisada, Rui Yamagata
Ground Zero is a term originally utilized to describe the site of a nuclear explosion or rocket detonation. The term, which has been used since the Manhattan Project, has been appropriated today to describe the loss of a bright future and the "empty space" that came at a cost.
The Russian invasion of Ukraine that began in March 2021 has not only caused massive human suffering but has also left behind enormous consequences, including the contamination of forests, land, and animals through the use of weapons of mass destruction. What has been lost is not only physical and material. International rejection of Russia as an aggressor, such as the refusal to play music composed by Russian musicians, has resulted in the disappearance of specific local cultures and histories from the complex web of relationships in human memory and cyberspace. Here, the "geotrauma" that we humans have caused to more-than-human counterparts, including the earth is expanding from the physical world of topography to form a huge void in the intangible realm of culture and memory.
This exhibition considers the material/immaterial void spaces created in the Russian periphery since 2019 as the new ground zero of our time and attempts to share and co-possess the memory of this trauma. The five artists participating in this exhibition approach the Chernobyl disaster and the Cold War era's recurring representations of the apocalypse as an extension of events deeply related to their individual existences, such as the radioactive contamination of the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant and the events related to the decommissioned nuclear reactors in Germany, and by geographically / contextually de-centering this local trauma, they attempt to internalize this geo-traumas in within themselves beyond material distance. By learning and un-learning ways to live together with the collective pain, this research-based fieldwork shakes up the concept of enclosed borders, as well as resisting the oblivion of the myriad small traumas.
Venue: Kyoto Art Center, North and South Gallery
The Russian invasion of Ukraine that began in March 2021 has not only caused massive human suffering but has also left behind enormous consequences, including the contamination of forests, land, and animals through the use of weapons of mass destruction. What has been lost is not only physical and material. International rejection of Russia as an aggressor, such as the refusal to play music composed by Russian musicians, has resulted in the disappearance of specific local cultures and histories from the complex web of relationships in human memory and cyberspace. Here, the "geotrauma" that we humans have caused to more-than-human counterparts, including the earth is expanding from the physical world of topography to form a huge void in the intangible realm of culture and memory.
This exhibition considers the material/immaterial void spaces created in the Russian periphery since 2019 as the new ground zero of our time and attempts to share and co-possess the memory of this trauma. The five artists participating in this exhibition approach the Chernobyl disaster and the Cold War era's recurring representations of the apocalypse as an extension of events deeply related to their individual existences, such as the radioactive contamination of the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant and the events related to the decommissioned nuclear reactors in Germany, and by geographically / contextually de-centering this local trauma, they attempt to internalize this geo-traumas in within themselves beyond material distance. By learning and un-learning ways to live together with the collective pain, this research-based fieldwork shakes up the concept of enclosed borders, as well as resisting the oblivion of the myriad small traumas.
Venue: Kyoto Art Center, North and South Gallery
Schedule | Nov 11 (Sat) 2023-Dec 10 (Sun) 2023 Opening Hours Information
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| Fee | Free | ||
| Website | https://www.kac.or.jp/eng/events/34621/ | ||
| Venue | Kyoto Art Center https://www.kac.or.jp/eng/ | ||
| Location | 546-2 Yamabushiyama-cho, Nakagyo-ku, Kyoto-shi, Kyoto 604-8156 | ||
| Access | 5 minute walk from exit 22 at Shijo Station on the Karasuma subway line, 5 minute walk from exit 22 at Karasuma Station on the Hankyu line. | ||
| Phone | 075-213-1000 | ||
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