Pazugoo at SPLITTING THE ATOM
Splitting the Atom takes place at the Contemporary Art Centre (CAC), Vilnius and the Energy and Technology Museum in Vilnius.
Sep 18 – Oct 25, 2020
Curators: Ele Carpenter and Virginija Januškevičiūtė
'By the beginning of the new millennium, evidence of everyday experience of radioactive contamination through nuclear testing, uranium mining, and colonial exploitation combined with the dangers of radioactive waste was better understood and radically influenced how artists consider nuclear aesthetics.
Today nuclear culture explores questions of deep time contamination, colonial nuclearity and radioactive waste management as well as the need to disarm. Practical concerns caused by aging technologies and radioactive waste become graver and increasingly urgent every day. While this work takes place, nuclear technologies continue to penetrate different aspects of our everyday life; and we know that radioactive fallout particles will remain across the surface of our planet forever. ' (curator's text)
I'll be showing two Pazugoo Index figures in this exhibition (reference archive objects for buried markers of nuclear toxicity), alongside a print of Double Flight Diagram, which draws research processes around grounding and ungrounding, earthing and unearthing.
Installation shots: Pazugoo Index (2018) & Double Flight Diagram (2020), CAC (Contemporay Art Centre), Vilnius; Pazugoo Index (2018), Energy & Technology Museum, Vilnius.
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