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Contemporary Art in the Nuclear Anthropocene
Perpetual Uncertainty brings together artists from Europe, Japan, the USA and Australia to investigate experiences of nuclear technology, radiation and the complex relationship between knowledge and the deep time.
Welcome to a press preview on Thursday 29 September, at 10:00. Artists Cécile Massart, Kenji Kubota, David Mabb, Robert Williams, Julia Yonetani and Curator Ele Carpenter will participate.
Perpetual Uncertainty is an exhibition of contemporary art in the nuclear anthropocene. The artworks explore how nuclear weapons and nuclear power has influenced our interpretation of concepts such as archives, memory, knowledge and time. How can we understand and visualise the ungraspable timeframe of radioactive half-life? How can we archive and communicate knowledge about radioactivity from generation to generation, hundreds of thousands of years into the future?
Participating artists are James Acord, Shuji Akagi, Lise Autogena & Joshua Portway, Erich Berger and Mari Keto, Nick Crowe and Ian Rawlinson, Don’t Follow the Wind, Finger Pointing Worker, Dave Griffiths, Isao Hashimoto, Erika Kobayashi, David Mabb, Cécile Massart, Eva and Franco Mattes, Yelena Popova, Susan Schuppli, Shimpei Takeda, Kota Takeuchi, Thomson & Craighead, Suzanne Treister, Andy Weir, Robert Williams and Bryan McGovern Wilson, and Ken + Julia Yonetani.
Perpetual Uncertainty is opened by Hans Adolfsson, Vice Chancellor at Umeå University, on Sunday 2 October and runs until 16 April, 2017. The exhibition includes a programme of films, open discussions and talks by researchers and experts.
Perpetual Uncertainty is produced by Bildmuseet and curated by Ele Carpenter, Goldsmiths University of London. The exhibition is accompanied by The Nuclear Culture Source Book, a collaboration between Bildmuseet, Arts Catalyst and Black Dog Publishing.
For furter information, please contact
Sofia Johansson, curator and projectleader at Bildmuseet
sofia.johansson@bildmuseet.umu.se, +46 90
Ele Carpenter, curator of the exhibition
elecarpenter@gmail.com, +46 70
Helena Vejbrink, press and communications officer at Bildmuseet
helena.vejbrink@bildmuseet.umu.se, +46 90 786 90 73
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Bildmuseet exhibits contemporary international art, photography, architecture, design and other forms of visual culture. Existential, political and philosophical issues are key to the programme. Bildmuseet received a Special Commendation from the European Museum of the Year jury last year, and was one of the top candidates för the Swedish Museum of the Year Award as well as for the Council of Europe Museum Prize.
Bildmuseet is a part of Umeå University. It is housed in an acclaimed building at the Umeå Arts Campus, right next to the Umeå Academy of Fine Arts, Umeå Institute of Design, Umeå School of Architecture and Humlab-X. Umeå university is a multifaced university where studies and research within the creative realm make up an important part of the universty's cornerstone. It is one of Sweden's largest institutions of higher learning with over 32,000 students and 4,200 employees.
